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A new power plant shows Ashgabat’s hopes for more electricity exports.

Cotton is king, but construction, transportation and engineering get presidential attention.

The president has pledged to defend Turkmenistan’s ecology, while he prepares to commission a vast artificial lake in the desert.

The only dependable way to access credible information on Turkmenistan these days is to have it leaked.

Figures presented at a Cabinet meeting paint a rosy picture and ignore reality.

This week, state news announced the publication of the 10th annual Chronicle of Great Achievements, a digest of the president’s successes in 2016.

It is unclear why the government wants young people to come back. Jobs are scant and foreign companies are as unwilling as ever to invest.

The president’s rap duet this week eclipsed Turkmenistan’s plans for space development and new eye-popping inflation figures.

Like its former Soviet neighbors, Turkmenistan craves international attention, but is rarely gratified by the results.

On his birthday, Turkmenistan’s president was hailed as “The Messenger of Heaven Descended to Earth.”

Large sections of Turkmenistan’s annual digest on human rights were lifted wholesale from Kazakhstan.

The government is rationing staple goods and denying citizens the right to travel abroad.

The president’s attempts to make public conversation about bicycles and his mom cannot paper over a broken economy.

State media distracts with giant bicycle get-togethers as the economy spins its wheels and the secret police represses.

U.S. proscribes Turkmen cotton, TAPI claims it has funding, and RT arrives

The currency is not the only thing underwater in Turkmenistan.

President plays hard as national currency goes soft.

One of the few ways to detect trouble is to push past glowing state accounts and count the firings. There are many.