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Turkmenistan: Internet and Blogosphere

Monday, January 28th, 2008 @ 09:03 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Turkmenistan
Topics:: Internet & Telecoms

Maciula writes about various aspects of Turkmenistan’s isolation on the Internet and presents the the only known English-language blog written by a Turkmen.

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