The new restrictive law of Turkmenistan on religion declares all unregistered religious activity illegal. The new amendment to the criminal code assumes the punishment for violation of the law for one ...

Turkmenistan presents India with an opportunity to boost energy security, strengthen regional ties, and deepen its strategic ...

Turkmenistan’s authorities have gone to extreme lengths to stop veteran human rights defender, Soltan Achilova, from traveling abroad. Achilova, 75, was scheduled to travel to Geneva for events ...

Digital transformation is a key focus for UNDP Turkmenistan as we recognize its potential to sectors like governance, education, and healthcare. However, past efforts have often been fragmented, with ...

The average flight time between United Kingdom and Ashgabat (Turkmenistan's capital), is 5 hours and 53 minutes. This has been calculated based on journeys departing from London. We crunched some ...

Tourism involving Turkmen citizens traveling to Uzbekistan has been on the rise in 2024. Many have used the trips to buy up foodstuffs and wares not readily available in Turkmenistan, which has been ...

Turkmenistan quietly ended its long term gas supply contract with Russian state controlled gas giant Gazprom this past summer while preparing to ink a larger supply deal with Iraq. Russian state ...

The city feels like a living museum; its yellow buildings feel like sturdy sand-monuments that have existed throughout time.

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(RNS) — Picture bacchanalian revels, wine, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll! That’s what people who leave religion are up to, right? Without the moral strictures of religion, and with all that ...

GENEVA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A journalist was seized by security forces in Turkmenistan as she was due to travel to Switzerland for an international human rights award ceremony, a group of NGOs said ...

(Bloomberg) -- Turkmenistan’s state-owned gas producer is planning to enlist specialists to help pinpoint methane releases, a major advance in the nation’s efforts to curb emissions of the potent ...