Turkmenistan

journalistic identity and media freedom have stumbled badly in Central Asia, primarily Turkmenistan. The state controlled media system that is currently in place has prevented any citizen voice in Turkmen media. Since 1992, journalism and free media in Turkmenistan have been on a downward spiral. Unfortunately, prospects for developing a believable, fact-based journalism look grim for this region. Thus, the citizens of Turkmenistan are forced to be unaware of the world around them and to accept that all information

Socio-Cultural Analysis of Turkmenistan Throughout the world, there are countries that have amazing and complex cultures. Many characteristics and factors contribute to the formation of a culture. These Factors include physical geography, weather, military conflict, and civil considerations. The civil considerations themselves consist of areas, structures, capabilities, organizations people and events. In order for one to understand the culture of a country such as Turkmenistan, it is important to

In his play, <u>Death and the King's Horseman</u>, Wole Soyinka would have us examine every clash and conflict, save for the one involving culture. Certainly this may seem the most obvious part of the play, but we would do the general understanding of <u>Death</u> a disservice if we ignored one of the central conflicts in the play. Every element of the play is placed in terms of two extremes, and the cultures must be considered one of those pairs. Suicide is no exception to this examination; it must

Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman In his play, Death and the King's Horseman, Wole Soyinka would have us examine every clash and conflict, save for the one involving culture. Certainly this may seem the most obvious part of the play, but we would do the general understanding of Death a disservice if we ignored one of the central conflicts in the play. Every element of the play is placed in terms of two extremes, and the cultures must be considered one of those pairs. Suicide is no

Turkmenistan Law on Migration based on the principles of respect and observance of rights of citizens and people. It will contribute to consolidation of foundations of fruitful cooperation between Turkmenistan and the world community for the universal development. Main purpose of the law is improvement of the rule of entry to Turkmenistan, sojourn in its territory and exit from the country of citizens of Turkmenistan, foreign citizens and stateless persons

Freedom of Expression -Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is one of the most repressive countries in world. For years it has been closed to independent scrutiny and it strongly violates all the articles which relate to the freedom of expression. Human rights defenders and activists are continuously scrutinized and threatened with imprisonment by the Turkmen government. Turkmenistan is ranked by the World Press Freedom Index number 178 out of 180 and has gone down one place since 2013. (www.rsf.org) This ranking

Turkmenistan is a country located in central Asia with Afghanistan and Iran as its neighbors to the south and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as its neighbor to the north. It has an area of 488,100 square kilometers of land and water surfaces combined and it is home to roughly 5.2 million inhabitants. Although the country claims to have a secular democracy as its government structure, Turkmenistan is actually an authoritarian state with the “president” holding the majority of political powers. Once the

Turkmen Energy Relations with China and Russia Historically in the Russian sphere of influence, since the breakup of the Soviet Union, just like the rest of Central Asia, Turkmenistan has found itself in the middle of Sino-Russian confrontation over the question of who is the new regional powerhouse. Due to the shared Russian imperial and then Soviet past, the Russian influence the Turkman society was prevalent after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Pipelines carried Turkmen gas to Russia and then

Possible Gas Recovery from Darvaza Crater Introduction Near a small village named Darweze (Darvaza in Russian meaning gate), there is a burning crater named as DOOR TO HELL or HELL’S GATE. In 1971 (when Turkmenistan was a part of Soviet Union) a group of Soviet geologists and engineers found a huge reservoir of natural gas, which was later found to be fifth largest in the world. A drilling rig was setup to extract it. Unfortunately, due to primitive technology survey of the ground was not proper

SpaceX Satellite Launch Planned for Today If all goes well in today’s SpaceX satellite launch, Turkmenistan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan ) will have its first communications satellite placed into orbit this evening. The satellite is scheduled to travel into space at 6:14pm EST, with a 60 percent change of good weather in the forecast. Turkmenistan used to be part of the Soviet republic, and is now considered as belonging to Central Asia. The main concern with the weather would be the chance