· May, 2008

Stories about Turkmenistan from May, 2008

Turkmenistan: End of Cult?

  12 May 2008

Maciula reports on president Berdymukhammedov’s efforts to undo his predecessor’s personality cult as the president of Turkmenistan removes the statue of his predecessor from the capital's central square.

Turkmenistan: Welcome Openings, Sad Closings

  1 May 2008

Patrick Frost says that Turkmenistan’s ‘opening up’ diplomatically from isolationist and totalitarian Niyazov era has been proven by the nation’s participation in the latest NATO Summit, EU Troika, and warming of relations with Turkey. But religious and personal freedoms still lag behind, he notes.