Kyrgyzstan: Rising Lake Threatens Shoreline
Beaches and basements are disappearing under water as Kyrgyzstan’s huge lake Issykkul rises inexorably.
Beaches and basements are disappearing under water as Kyrgyzstan’s huge lake Issykkul rises inexorably.
Unemployment and poverty means a pre-school education is beyond the means of many families.
Endless propaganda and bribes to pass exams are just two of the disincentives to going to university in Turkmenistan.
Change to identification papers and the electoral roll gives the ethnic Turkmen community less of a say than ever.
Will Chechen militants take up the offer of an amnesty now that their most high-profile leader is dead?
Doctors at some drug treatment clinics in Turkmenistan are selling illegal narcotics instead of treating their patients.
Construction of a major bridge in eastern Turkmenistan has ground to a halt because of a contractual dispute with the Ukrainian builders, centring on who should supply the cement for the bridge supports.
Residents of the western port of Turkmenbashi have condemned plans to demolish a whole swathe of historic buildings as an attempt to erase the past from people’s collective memory.
Even by Turkmen standards, the fall from grace of Geday Ahmedov, a once-favoured regional chief, was spectacular and tragic.
When street cleaners are redeployed to work on farms, schoolteachers are forced take their place.