Stories about Turkmenistan

Why we must keep shining a light on Turkmenistan

The Bridge  9 September 2019

Turkmenistan’s rulers are not eager to publicise the country’s hardships. Independent media is non-existent and social media severely restricted. If news travels at all, it travels covertly. That’s where I come in.

What diapers taught me about Europe

The Bridge  27 February 2019

"With unrestricted access to information, my critical consciousness was awakened, and I began to reconsider binaries like “developed” and “backward” and re-analyze politics both in Turkmenistan and West."

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