Turkmenistan

In 1990, Bruce Pannier first went to Central Asia -- what was it like and what’s changed since then?

Mapping newly created, resurrected, and proposed transport routes across Central Asia provides insight into regional connectivity drives.

Ashgabat is still trying to cut expenses wherever it can, and even foreign companies are feeling the pinch.

A reported drive to register men under 50 for the army reserves hints at underlying concern about the border.

Turkmenistan's economic perils could drive a person to drink, but that's more difficult with a new law restricting alcohol sales.

Successful realization of the opportunities opened by the deal will depend on political will among the Caspian littoral states.

A discussion of Central Asia's hottest topics from Uzbekistan’s reforms to Kazakh succession and China's Belt and Road.

The use of “former Soviet” to refer to Central Asia can be blinding, distracting from the realizing that the region isn't static.

Kazakhstan looks to increase its natural gas exports to China, and Turkmenistan may be gaining an old customer back.

A Turkish and a German company have joined a host of others with arbitration complaints lobbed against Ashgabat.

Efforts to transform Central Asia’s urban spaces have long ignored input from local residents; grassroots efforts could change that.

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