During a court testimony, one defendant said he was constantly beaten and cross-chained with handcuffs (with his left hand tied to his right ankle and his right hand tied to his left ankle) during the preliminary police interrogations.

On December 7, at noon, several men broke into the apartment of one of Turkmenistan’s most outspoken animal welfare activists Galina Kucherenko and forcibly took her and her daughter Valeriya Kucherenko away. The daughter was kept in the police and was released six hours later. Galina Kucherenko’s fate and location remained unknown until December 12.

Balkanabad residents could now rest assured, it seemed, that the crime had been solved: the real killer had been arrested and the two accused could now be free. However, much to the surprise and disappointment of the locals, the two wrongly-accused young men are still in jail. Justice, after all, has not prevailed.

According to the correspondence between Turkmennebit and its creditors, the second-largest state company seems to have run out of money. Should the state company fail to extinguish its debt in the near future, the law firm will prepare the documents to file an arbitration claim.

During the cotton harvest, hands are the most important. For those who manage labor for the harvest, it doesn’t matter if those hands belong to an adult or a child.

Firms always inflate the estimates because with that they include kickbacks to state officials that decide on who gets a construction tender. If you don’t bribe them, you will not get a tender.

The national security officers demanded that she avoided Turkmen independent media groups on social media and “stopped sending information out.” They shut down her internet connection and threatened her with a new criminal case, saying that if she kept browsing the web, she and her husband would be killed.

Similar rallies were held in other regions of the country, such as the Sakar District of the Lebap province. There, women set up pickets outside the mayor’s office against the price increase. The source could not confirm the total number of women who took part in the demonstration and its consequences.

Previously, the limit was $250 daily. Analysts in Ashgabat said that this measure responds to an acute shortage of dollars in Turkmenistan. A resident of Mary, currently in Moscow, confirmed that the new limit set by the Central Bank had come into effect. He added that the limit also applies to card operations.