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Inside the idyllic but deserted ‘American’ suburb on the edge of Ashgabat

Letter from Ashgabat: reclusive Turkmenistan reluctantly opens its doors to the world

From Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan, this Insta account gives you a daily slice of life in Central Asia

Inside the idyllic but deserted ‘American’ suburb on the edge of Ashgabat

Letter from Ashgabat: reclusive Turkmenistan reluctantly opens its doors to the world

From Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan, this Insta account gives you a daily slice of life in Central Asia

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Architecture

From Tallinn to Turkmenistan, is there more to post-independence architecture than big business and ‘exotic kitsch’?

19 August 2021

Follow of the week

Meet the Instagram fashionistas of Turkmenistan

11 August 2021

Architecture

Whose palace? The opulence and intrigue of 4 mega-mansions

4 February 2021

Inside Awaza, Turkmenistan’s extravagant and empty tourist resort — in photos

7 September 2020

Inside the idyllic but deserted ‘American’ suburb on the edge of Ashgabat

13 June 2019

See Central Asia’s unique Soviet architecture in all its brutal glory

19 April 2019

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6 March 2019

Design

This London start-up is backing real Central Asian design

11 October 2018

Turkmenistan’s Bronze Age treasures travel abroad for the first time

25 April 2018

Art & Culture

Stranger than fiction: sorting the real from the fake in the bizarre media world of Turkmenistan

16 March 2018

Art & Culture

Turkmenistan bans ‘unlucky’ black cars

3 January 2018

Travel writing

Letter from Ashgabat: reclusive Turkmenistan reluctantly opens its doors to the world

17 October 2017

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