Turkmenistan

Kyrgyz Parties Must Merge or Fail

Political parties have more of a chance of winning power than ever before, but they are in no shape to fight elections at the moment.

OSCE Monitors Likely to Find Poll Access Restricted

Education Set for Overhaul

First Signs of a Thaw?

Election Candidates Hint at Greater Freedoms

International Campaigners Rally for Prisoners

Kazakstan: Migrant Workers Face Deportation

Illegal immigrants are being rounded up only weeks after a controversial campaign offering them work permits.

Will Foreign Election Monitors be Given Free Hand?

Political Prisoners 'Mutiny'

Local Budgets Forced to Pay for National Assembly

A presidential decision forcing provincial governments to pay for a meeting of the Halk Maslahati – a national congress that has more formal powers than the Turkmen parliament – is yet another drain on their limited resources.