Turkmen officials are silent about the grain harvest, which is a bad sign suggesting the people of Turkmenistan could face a third straight winter of flour and bread shortages.
U.S. officials traveled to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from July 20 to July 23 to discuss economic and security cooperation with representatives from the five Central Asian republics.
A summit of Caspian Sea littoral states is set for August 12 in Kazakhstan’s port city of Aktau. It is the fifth such summit, but this one is the big one.
The foreign ministers of countries in Central Asian say they have agreed to increase cooperation against international terrorism and religious extremism after a meeting in the Kyrgyz resort city of Cholpon-Ata.
This week's Majlis Podcast looks at the worsening economic situation in Turkmenistan.
In a change from past practice in isolated Turkmenistan, relatives have recently been allowed to visit inmates at the Central Asian country's "most notorious prison," the Moscow-based human rights group Memorial says.
Governments in Central Asia continue to use, and some would say abuse, the right to appeal to international law enforcement agencies to apprehend citizens of Central Asian states who have fled their homeland.
In a new report, the U.S. State Department says Belarus, Iran, Russia, and Turkmenistan remain among the worst offenders of human trafficking and forced labor.
Relations between Ashgabat and Tashkent have seemed solid for more than a decade, but an unflattering if accurate report on Uzbek television and early rumblings from ethnic Uzbeks in Turkmenistan could be signs the relationship is headed for a rough patch. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on a German technology company to publicly disclose whether it is considering sales to Turkmenistan, and how it is addressing the possibility that its technology will be used by the Turkmen government to block websites and carry out surveillance in violation of human rights.
Turkmen state TV hails him as the "Great Patron" who can sing, ride, and drive like a champ. Now it says that President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has redesigned and rebuilt "from scratch" a rally car.
In better days, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's public absence might not have been a problem. But these are bad times, and his country can use all the friends it can get. (The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
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