At dusk on Christmas day, 1991, the iconic hammer-and-sickle flag of ... Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union, leaving ...

In the second half of the year, Putin visited several Central Asian countries, including the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. He also went to Kazakhstan for the Shanghai ...

The URL has been copied to your clipboard In Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan ... of queer people in Central Asia by raising a rainbow flag on the world’s highest peaks. The code has been copied ...

The cult of personality built by Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Turkmenistan’s paramount leader, is already well documented. He ...

Located in Turkmenistan's Karakum desert ... how people set the fire going in the Darvaza Crater are debated as the Soviet-era reports are missing, incomplete or still under lock and key.

The canal poses particular concerns for downstream countries, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan ... for the canal date back to the 1970s, but the Soviet invasion in 1979 triggered more than 40 years ...

Turkmenistan’s electoral commission announced on Tuesday that Serdar Berdimuhamedow, the son of incumbent leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, had emerged victorious in the country’s elections on ...

They emerged as the orbiting lab sailed 260 miles (420 kilometers) above Turkmenistan. "I'm coming out," Williams radioed. Plans called for Williams to float back out next week with Butch Wilmore.

Some sources say it was formed in 1971 and was set alight immediately by Soviet geologists, but Turkmenistan geologists claim it formed in the ’60s and wasn’t ignited until the 1980s.

They emerged as the orbiting lab sailed 260 miles (420 kilometers) above Turkmenistan. "I'm coming out," Williams radioed. Plans called for Williams to float back out next week with Butch Wilmore.