She was living a comfortable life in London in relative obscurity until her father, the omnipotent leader of Turkmenistan, summoned her home to Ashgabat and thrust her onto the political stage. That ...

ARKADAG ARE the undisputed champions of Turkmenistan. Founded in 2023, the football (soccer) team won every match in its first two domestic seasons, ending a hot streak of 61 straight wins only in ...

There is a scene in Monia Chokri’s romantic comedy-drama where a husband and wife stroll through a park, discussing their “favorite dictators,” Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov and Turkmenistan’s Gurbanguly ...

Turkmenistan's diplomatic mission in Geneva ... in north Mali and was the first reporter to enter deposed Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s estate. She co-authored a winning story for the ...

Far from improving since President Serdar Berdymukhamedov took office last year, the situation has only worsened for women in Turkmenistan. Women, peace and security in the country of dictators ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — A few days ago I returned from a rare visit to Turkmenistan — an isolated and anachronistic country, and one of the most cut-off in the world, even compared to other ...

Turkmenistan is not an easy country for media ... It is terrible that this dictator perpetrates a system of governing the country in which citizens are deprived of the most basic rights and ...

The last role is the most important. But it is also the one about which there is arguably the least information, as Berdimuhamedov's Turkmenistan is one of the most secretive and repressive ...

Carrie Herzog was sitting at her desk in Montreal one day in early 2019, studying satellite images for signs of mud volcanoes. These geological oddities, common around the Caspian Sea, can belch ...

In the middle of the continent, on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan too has seemingly managed to go the past two years without a single recorded infection. Under President ...

The ruler of Turkmenistan has unveiled a 50ft golden ... latest opulent monument erected at the behest of the nation’s dictators. In 2015, Berdymukhamedov unveiled a gold statue of himself ...