While clumsy on COVID-19, Turkmenistan is being more sure-footed, or consistent at least, on the Afghanistan front. Plus, unsustainable agriculture. Our weekly briefing. Schoolchildren in Turkmenistan don’t know if they’re …
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The former U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan describes close interactions with a paranoid and shortsighted dictator. On photo: Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov and Ambassador Steven Mann (right) with Gazprom CEO Rem …
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The president’s latest stunt highlights how Turkmenistan is increasingly devoted to military aviation acquisitions from Italy. Our weekly briefing. He has raced cars on the edge of fiery craters, gunned …
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A freshly installed camp outside the city of Termez counts up to 80 tents. A tent city has been erected outside the southern Uzbekistan city of Termez, apparently in advance …
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Raimbek Matraimov, the former deputy customs chief of Kyrgyzstan who was convicted of large-scale corruption earlier this year, has purchased an elite new apartment in the center of Bishkek, contradicting …
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There are many types of forced marriage in this world, but perhaps the most dramatic is marriage by abduction, or bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is common in parts of sub-Saharan …
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Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in some Arab countries but openly organising anti-Israel rallies here An Islamist extremist group which David Cameron and Tony Blair both attempted to ban has been …
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Dilshodbek, a migrant laborer from the eastern Uzbek city of Qoqand, has worked in Russia for more than a decade. But this year he is going to neighboring Kazakhstan instead. …
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Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities. In late January, as some wealthy countries were opening vaccination …
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Kyrgyzstan said Monday it had detained a former prime minister over corruption at the country’s largest gold mine, the centre of a legal dispute with Canadian firm Centerra. The giant …
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