Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov says he has ordered parliament to draft a law on political parties.
Some fine storytelling in the "Literary Traveler." A Peace Corps volunteer hears a Turkmen boy reading a Langston Hughes poem and wonders why.
The Turkmen parliament has approved a new edition of the country's Criminal Code that reduces the maximum sentence for the most serious crimes.
Turkmenistan has increased its public battle against drugs after opium-poppy fields were discovered during a regional visit by the president.
A new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom warns that religious freedom across the globe is increasingly being threatened and oppressed by governments in human rights "hot spots."
2009 saw declines in press freedom across the globe, continuing an eight-year slide. That's according to a report by Freedom House, a Washington-based NGO. Last year, the report says, repressive governments continued to stamp out dissent, crimes against journalists went unpunished, and state attempts to control Internet use intensified.
Following the bloody uprising this month that led to the overthrow of the Kyrgyz government, the question arises whether conditions in neighboring Central Asian states could be favorable for similar political turbulence.
Turkmens say the Akhal-Teke has been a horse of choice for many emperors, warriors, and other leaders for over 3,000 years -- including Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, and more recently Georgy Zhukov, the famous Red Army wartime general.
Turkmen parliamentarians have been told by their president to visit rural areas more often to talk to villagers and ask about their problems.
At UN headquarters in New York on April 12, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered a briefing on his recent trip through Central Asia, where he urged a respect for human rights.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a report criticizing Turkmenistan's public health system.
In Central Asia, officially sanctioned Islam and outside sects are engaged in a struggle for influence, with believers and clerics caught in the middle.
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