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

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

Architecture gone wild: the 12 most insanely great contemporary buildings of the New East

Architecture gone wild: the 12 most insanely great contemporary buildings of the New East

Red route: following the new 1833km gas pipeline from China to Turkmenistan

Red route: following the new 1833km gas pipeline from China to Turkmenistan

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

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

Architecture gone wild: the 12 most insanely great contemporary buildings of the New East

Architecture gone wild: the 12 most insanely great contemporary buildings of the New East

Red route: following the new 1833km gas pipeline from China to Turkmenistan

Red route: following the new 1833km gas pipeline from China to Turkmenistan

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‘To have power you need guts:’ writer-in-exile Ak Welsapar on resistance in Turkmenistan
Books

‘To have power you need guts:’ writer-in-exile Ak Welsapar on resistance in Turkmenistan

15 February 2022
How Slovakia’s urban activists are transforming Bratislava from the ground up
Architecture

How Slovakia’s urban activists are transforming Bratislava from the ground up

8 December 2021
Artists pay tribute to 9th-century Central Asian inventor of the algorithm
Art

Artists pay tribute to 9th-century Central Asian inventor of the algorithm

7 October 2021
30 years of Tajikistan’s cultural history in 7 artworks
Art & Culture

30 years of Tajikistan’s cultural history in 7 artworks

9 September 2021
‘We’re still fighting for independence:’ 6 cultural figures reflect on 30 years since the end of the USSR
Art & Culture

‘We’re still fighting for independence:’ 6 cultural figures reflect on 30 years since the end of the USSR

2 September 2021
8 books, films and artworks that capture independent Uzbekistan
Art & Culture

8 books, films and artworks that capture independent Uzbekistan

1 September 2021
30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is it time to finally stop using the term ‘post-Soviet’?
Art & Culture

30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is it time to finally stop using the term ‘post-Soviet’?

31 August 2021
Letter from Bukhara: finding the last vestiges of community in Central Asia’s Jewish heartland
Travel writing

Letter from Bukhara: finding the last vestiges of community in Central Asia’s Jewish heartland

26 August 2021
Why it’s time to stop calling Central Asia ‘The Stans’
Art & Culture

Why it’s time to stop calling Central Asia ‘The Stans’

24 August 2021
From Tallinn to Turkmenistan, is there more to post-independence architecture than big business and ‘exotic kitsch’?
Architecture

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

19 August 2021
Meet the Instagram fashionistas of Turkmenistan
Follow of the week

Meet the Instagram fashionistas of Turkmenistan

11 August 2021
Daring photos show womanhood and forbidden love in contemporary Uzbekistan
Follow of the week

Daring photos show womanhood and forbidden love in contemporary Uzbekistan

31 March 2021
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