Google and Opera appear to have been blocked in Turkmenistan — or have they? Neweurasia‘s Anna Soltan explores the mix of censorship, incompetence, and terrible infrastructure that constitutes the “shoddy omnipotence” of government digital control, and why this is both a source of distress and hope.
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For a growing number of Turkmen youth, rap music has become a way to express their daily struggles and inspire political change in one of the world’s most oppressive countries.
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The Weekly Digest — a round-up of Sampsonia Way’s top stories — is your source for quality weekend reading.
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Turkmenistan has the world’s third most suppressed media, followed only by North Korea and Eritrea. However, the coverage of a deadly explosion marked the unprecedented emergence of citizen journalism in one of the world’s most isolated countries.
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