http://www.rferl.org/archive/Turkmenistan/latest/652/669.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Turkmenistan http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Turkmenistan/latest/652/669.html en-US Copyright 2009 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:00:40 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL Before the autumn revolutions in Eastern Europe, there was the Moscow Spring in the Soviet Union. In 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies hit their high-water mark, as the USSR held its first competitive elections, press freedom flourished, and civil society awakened. http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:14:45 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Revolutions_of_89_The_Moscow_Spring/1876450.html#relatedInfoContainer The number of swine flu patients in Kyrgyzstan has reached 27, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Reports_More_Swine_Flu_Infections_But_No_Deaths/1875149.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kyrgyzstan_Reports_More_Swine_Flu_Infections_But_No_Deaths/1875149.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:26:24 +0000 From Our Bureaus As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:11:26 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Follies_A_Regional_Roundup/1874396.html#relatedInfoContainer Some 2,000 Kazakhs are planning to go on the hajj -- the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia -- despite the swine flu epidemic, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Kazakhs_To_Make_Hajj_While_Turkmen_Will_Stay_Home__/1873451.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Kazakhs_To_Make_Hajj_While_Turkmen_Will_Stay_Home__/1873451.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:32:49 +0000 From Our Bureaus A court in Turkmenistan has overturned a five-year jail sentence handed down last week to a biologist whose environmental organization was shut down by the state in 2003. The case marks the second time in three years that Andrei Zatoka has been sentenced and detained before being released, and highlights the difficulties activists commonly encounter in Central Asia. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:13:52 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Case_Highlights_Plight_Of_Activists_In_Central_Asia/1871275.html#relatedInfoContainer As concerns over massive outbreaks of swine flu rise in many countries with the onset of the influenza season, doctors say much is misunderstood about how people contract the disease. We speak to experts to learn more, and whether there is any cause for panic. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:28:25 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Unmasking_The_Truth_About_Swine_Flu/1869526.html#relatedInfoContainer Public fears of a major outbreak of swine flu are growing in countries from Ukraine to Afghanistan. The fears are fed by real cases of people falling ill with the flu. But what is not clear is how many of the cases are ordinary flu, and how many are swine flu, and whether fears of an imminent pandemic are justified. http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Fears_Spread_From_Ukraine_to_Afghanistan/1869479.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Fears_Spread_From_Ukraine_to_Afghanistan/1869479.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:50:05 +0000 Features http://www.rferl.org/content/Swine_Flu_Fears_Spread_From_Ukraine_to_Afghanistan/1869479.html#relatedInfoContainer Prominent Turkmen environmental activist Andrei Zatoka has been sentenced to five years in prison for hooliganism, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Environmental_Activist_Given_FiveYear_Jail_Term/1864506.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Environmental_Activist_Given_FiveYear_Jail_Term/1864506.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:14:37 +0000 From Our Bureaus http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Environmental_Activist_Given_FiveYear_Jail_Term/1864506.html#relatedInfoContainer Activists demonstrated at the Turkmen Embassy in Moscow to protest the arrest in Turkmenistan of environmentalist Andrei Zatoka, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reports. http://www.rferl.org/content/Moscow_Protest_Over_Turkmen_Environmentalists_Arrest/1863627.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Moscow_Protest_Over_Turkmen_Environmentalists_Arrest/1863627.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:57:30 +0000 From Our Bureaus Police in the Central Asian state of Turkmenistan have arrested a prominent environmental activist in what appeared to be a politically motivated action, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Police_Arrest_Green_Activist_HRW_Says/1859998.html http://www.rferl.org/content/Turkmen_Police_Arrest_Green_Activist_HRW_Says/1859998.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:12:32 +0000 News