As of 2019, according to a recent decree, Ashgabat will no longer provide free electricity, gas, drinking water and salt to its citizens.

It’s unclear how Uzbek participation in the pipeline project will manifest.

Regional leaders dismissed in Lebap Province were accused of corruption. Meanwhile, the Turkmen shuffle continues.

Ashgabat is ditching water subsidies, with the savings to be directed into the country's energy sector.

Global coverage of Turkmenistan shows the power of personality cults to set agendas far beyond national boundaries.

An important building block in any cult of personality is a whole shelf of laudatory texts.

"In essence, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan fight against terrorism and radicalism by reducing extreme poverty."

In the latest sign of an economic crash, Turkmenistan threatens to cut a decades-old benefits system.

During his second visit to Turkmenistan, Uzbek President Mirziyoyev agreed to join the pipeline project.

Mirziyoyev paid his first visit to Turkmenistan while their main joint project – a pipeline to China – was being killed.

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev made a two-day visit to Turkmenistan his first official foray abroad.

The USSR’s collapse; don’t say ‘colony’; hope for an Uzbek glasnost; and more. Recommended reads.

The introduction of two new parties to the ballot signals the regime's unease, not a democratic awakening.

Not that it was really in much doubt.

Atmar's quiet visits to Dushanbe and Bishkek are a positive sign--but the two regions need to do more than talk.

More on Kazakh-Russian relations, troubling constitutional changes brewing in Kyrgyzstan, and a beard story; links.