A demolition campaign outside the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, spreads misery and shows no sign of abating.
The demolition of thousands of homes has been taking place in Shor and Choganly, two suburbs of the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat. The authorities say the houses have been built illegally, and have not been offered compensation.
There has been a lot of trouble across northern Afghanistan in recent months and one reason is the arrival of militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
A rights group says President Heinz Fischer of Austria should urge President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan to address serious human rights problems in the country.
Red, purple, pink, blue-and-gold. Many people in post-Soviet countries are choosing any color, it seems, for their Victory Day symbols -- just not the orange-and-black of Russia's St. George ribbon.
“The Caspian Sea is a sea of peace and friendship.” Top officials in the five Caspian littoral states -- Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan -- have been repeating that line for two decades. This mantra is about to be put to the test.
Freedom House says restrictive new laws and violence against journalists resulted in a global decline of press freedom during 2014, bringing the world's press freedom to its lowest point in more than 10 years.
It appears there is a new contender in Central Asia seeking to establish the region’s first dynasty in more than 100 years.
Turkmenistan's first telecommunications satellite has been put into orbit.
The situation for ethnic Turkmen in northern Afghanistan's northwestern Baghdis Province is dire. They have already started to bury their dead.
With the EU's Southern Gas Corridor project to bring gas from the Caspian Basin to Europe taking on increased importance, we spoke with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission vice president "in charge of energy union" who is currently spearheading the EU's efforts to realize for the SGC.
Ethnic Turkmen in northern Afghanistan have spent many months trapped, either inside their homes in the village of Marchak or in a no-man's land nearer to the border with Turkmenistan. The situation has gone from bad to worse.
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