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As the president celebrates, the economic crisis deepened by a coronavirus outbreak he has refused to acknowledge has left his people in a state of Dickensian misery.

Electricity exports; crowd control outside food shops; and despite denials, COVID strikes. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

5,000 people are taking part in the trials.

Only the best medicine for the leader. For everyone else, bread shortages.

Officials were irked by coverage about haphazard preparations for the heating season.

Any breakthrough in improving the lot of labor migrants will be touted as sign of his political heft.

Travel bans, dams and Russian fans. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Ecological conservation is a matter of pride in Turkmenistan. But a disconnect between rhetoric and reality is a hallmark of the Berdymukhamedov era.

The population has not been counted in over 30 years.

The terminal state of the economy remains paramount in the minds of those wishing to leave.

One hundred years after the Red Army established the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, residents are ambivalent about its meaning.

The authorities are spooked by the idea that a crowd could form.

The dictatorial regime is mostly deaf to people’s complaints, but it sometimes caves.

The president’s fury has only served to expose once more the implausibility of official data.

Officials say Uzbekistan plans to produce its own vaccine when tests are done.