Security was tight in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, where leaders of 10 countries were gathering. The countries are members of a group called the Economic Cooperation Organization, which was established in 1985 by Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Vladimir Putin makes a trip to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan on February 27-28. Two of the countries -- Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- are members of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), and Tajikistan is currently negotiating entry into the organization. The EEU is bound to be on the agenda when Putin meets with all three Central Asian leaders.
Pakistan is scheduled to host a multination conference in Islamabad next week aimed at increasing trade and cooperation between regional countries.
Turkmen journalist and RFE/RL contributor Khudayberdy Allashov and his mother, Kurbantach Arazmedova, have been released from custody after spending 2 1/2 months in detention.
Amnesty International says human rights around the world are under threat because of politicians who are using "toxic, dehumanizing" rhetoric against ethnic or religious minorities in order to strengthen their political powers.
Turkmenistan's rubberstamp parliament is about to lose its rubber stamp, again.
Avalanches across Central Asia have claimed several lives in recent days.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has been sworn in for a third seven-year term as Turkmenistan's president.
State media in Turkmenistan are reporting that 828 prisoners have been pardoned by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov.
Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, who was just reelected with a reported 98 percent of the vote, has a reputation for rigging elections and building his cult of personality. And as he is fond of demonstrating on state TV, he is a man of many other talents. (Current Time TV)
It's the 21st century and with the Internet and television many people look at radio as a medium for disseminating knowledge that is slowly fading into history. But that would be getting ahead of ourselves, because for every person in the world today with access to the Internet that are probably two or three others who have never used the worldwide web and are not likely to do so in the near future.
Polls have closed in Turkmenistan, where the authoritarian president of the hermetic, gas-rich country was expected to extend his rule for seven more years.
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