What does it take to visit Turkmenistan? Turkmenistan’s strict visa policies, including mandatory letter of invitation, bureaucratic delays, and limited travel flexibility, create significant barriers for both tourists...
The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy by Daniel Kalder. A darkly humorous tour of “dictator literature” in the twentieth century, featuring the soul-killing prose...
The UNDP report titled “Risks from Climate Change for Water and Agriculture in Turkmenistan”, November, 2024 has been developed as part of a national adaptation planning (NAP) process to address climate-related risks...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project titled “Strengthening national capacity for Seismic Risk Assessment, Prevention and Response to Potential Earthquakes” has completed in December 2024. The project’s...
A son of the Gökdepe massacre and a hero of the First World War, the Turkmen Oraz Serdar became the military leader of Transcaspia and led both Turkmen and Russian troops against the Bolsheviks. His experience in...
Turkmenistan’s 2023/24 WPS Index ranking shows slight improvements in gender equality and overall rank being ahead of other Central Asian countries: lowest maternal mortality rate in the region (5.2 deaths per...
As part of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, UN member states adopted the Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: Ending inequalities and getting on track to end AIDS by 2030 at the UN General Assembly High...
A joint report by Human Rights Watch and the Turkmenistan Helsinki Foundation, titled “It’s Like I Live in a Cage”, exposes the severe consequences of Turkmenistan’s refusal to renew or replace passports for its...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) published a “Turkmenistan 2023 IFRC network annual report”. The report highlights the Red Crescent Society of Turkmenistan’s (National...
The economic growth in Turkmenistan has been characterized by the great volatility. ACRA, a Russia-based analytical credit rating agency, published a research brief titled “Between the East and West” which analyzes the...
