Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan: Poverty Drives Addiction and Prostitution

Poverty is driving teenagers into the sex trade – and drug addiction is keeping them there.

21 Feb 05

State-run newspapers are told to slash staff levels in cost-cutting offensive – but no one reads them in any case.

21 Feb 05

Uzbek scientists call on Tashkent to repair a meteorological centre damaged by rebels five years ago.

21 Feb 05

Issykkul shows its darker side as pensioners and schoolchildren harvest the region’s cannabis crop.

21 Feb 05

Uzbekistan attempts to build bridges with the Taleban after their recent victory over the Northern Alliance.

21 Feb 05

Alarm bells ring in Dushanbe as the Taleban advance towards the Tajik border.

21 Feb 05

Uzbekistan appoints a civilian defence minister as part of sweeping military reforms

21 Feb 05

The Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan appear determined to thwart the Taleban

21 Feb 05

The authorities in Islamabad appear to have found a new use for the Taleban

21 Feb 05

Attempts to curb prodigious consumption of alcohol in Uzbekistan are it seems doomed to fail

21 Feb 05

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