Turkmenistan

Sovietstan
by Erika Fatland

In this book, author Erica Fatland brings us stories from across a wide region covering Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. In Turkmenistan, journalists are often followed and tourists and ATMs are restricted. This book is an engrossing read, about a place which has the most natural gas, the most marble buildings and the most water fountains in the world and yet is close to the bottom on the Transparency Index of the WPFI (World Press Freedom Index).

Translated by Kari Dickson
MacLehose Press, 2020
ISBN 9780857057747