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JURIST (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
[JURIST] The 2500-member People's Council of Turkmenistan Friday adopted a new constitution for Turkmenistan envisioning a new multi-party political process and providing for limits on presidential power two years after the death of longtime autocrat Saparmurat Niyazov. Turkmen leaders are hopeful that the changes in the country's charter would encourage investment in the Central Asian state, a leading...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
The Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights has published a report on Monday saying freedom of press, freedom of expression and access to information is “absolutely” restricted. The current leadership contrasts itself with the previous totalitarian regime of the first President Saparmurat Niyazov by creating a well-coined image of a democratizing state. However, liberalization in Turkmenistan is [...]
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
A mandatory course on the “Holy Rukhnama”, a philosophical and historic book of the first president Saparmurat Niyazov, is abolished from September 1, in all universities in Turkmenistan. This year Rukhnama, which stands for Treatise of Spirituality, will be taught not as a separate course but together with other courses on history, political science, economics [...]
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ComingAnarchy.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Turkmenistan has been making tremendous strides since the death of President “Turkmenbashy” Niyazov several years ago. For example, the country has reinstated the PhD degree, which was abolished in 1997. But some bad ideas remain, one of them being the “Golden Age Lake.” As much a wasteland as California’s Death Valley, the 90 mile [...]
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
One of the last (we hope) Asian strongmen OLD-SCHOOL Asian strongmen have become an endangered species. The future of even Central Asia's venerable strongman tradition has been in doubt since the death in 2006 of Turkmenistan's Sapurmurat Niyazov, who called himself "Turkmenbashi", the father of the Turkmen. The daddy of them all, Genghis Khan, is probably spinning in his grave at Mongolia's turn...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
SINCE I last reported on Turkmenistan its delightful President for Life, Saparmurat Niyazov, has run out of it. That is, life.
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Under Turkmenbashi?s shadow WHEN Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenbashi or father of all the Turkmen, died of heart failure in December 2006, there was guarded optimism that better days might lie ahead for his benighted country. A year and a half later, assessments are at best mixed. This week the European Union and Turkmenistan held their first ?human-rights dialogue? in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat....
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Persecution Blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
“Break him morally or destroy him physically!” The Turkmenistan bureaucrats had no more patience for this street preacher. Shageldy Atakov was offered his freedom under President Saparmurat Niyazov’s December 23, 2000, amnesty, provided he would swear the oath of allegiance...
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Moscow Times (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in its capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, the country's state newspaper reported Monday.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov…. Share This
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan -- Turkmenistan plans to build a soaring $70 million monument in the capital that will outstrip anything built during the ostentatious rule of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov.
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turkmenistan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Gas pipeline from Turkmenistan unlike the pre-Caspian project (see my previous post) is becoming reality. Here is a bunch of facts to prove it. The first frame agreement on gas exports to China was signed by former president Sapparmurat Niyazov in April 2006. Just year later, his successor – Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov went to Beijing in [...]
