As the Gundogar website reports, a convention on forced disappearances was launched at the UN General Assembly’s Human Rights Council by France and Argentina jointed in a meeting last Wednesday. This move is likely to …

Relatively soon after their arrest in June, a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist, Ogulsapar Muradova, a worker for the Turkmen Helsinki Foundation, Sapardurdy Khadjiev, and another human rights activist, Annakurban Amanklychev, were sentenced to six …

The laying of the foundation stone for Saudi Arabia’s expansive new embassy complex in Ashgabat on Tuesday offers a glimpse into the current direction of Turkmenistan’s engagement with the international community. As NewsCentralAsia reported, the …

What follows is one part of a cross-blog initiative that commemorates the 1991 Moscow coup and evaluates the years in between.
As was the case for his Central Asian neighbours, the General Secretary of the Republic …

After the dramatic arrest of the General Prosecutor Gurbanbiby Atajanova in April, the time of reckoning has also come for another figure close to the Niyazov regime. President Saparmurat Niyazov had signed a decree in …

The Turkmen State News Agency reports that the U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan Tracey Ann Jacobson (pictured left) has come to the end of her tenure. She will next be taking up an ambassadorship in Tajikistan. …

Russian daily Noviye Izvestiya has speculated that President Saparmurat Niyazov may be succeeded by his son, Murad Saparmurat, in an article published in Tuesday’s issue. It cited Murad Saparmurat’s visit to Dubai last Saturday during …

Gas talks between Turkmenistan and Russia took another twist on Thursday as Ashgabat announced that it would cut off gas deliveries from September after negotiations to reach a new price deal collapsed, Reuters reported. The …

As anticipated in yesterday’s Turkmen Helsinki Foundation press release, the authorities in Ashgabat are seeking to characterise one of the arrested human rights workers, now subject of an Amnesty appeal, as a traitor to the …

According to a Turkmen Helsinki Foundation press release reproduced on the opposition Watan.ru website, the Turkmen authorities have detained a Radion Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist and a human rights worker, Ogulsapar Muradova and Annakurban …