О проекте

О фено­мене ина­ко­мыс­лия в пост­со­вет­ском Турк­ме­ни­стане извест­но крайне мало. При­хо­дя­щие вре­мя от вре­ме­ни ново­сти об аре­стах или дав­ле­нии на отдель­ных акти­ви­стов не дают сколь-либо целост­ной кар­ти­ны раз­ви­тия турк­мен­ско­го ина­ко­мыс­лия. Тем не менее, его духов­ное насле­дие суще­ству­ет и пред­став­ля­ет собой целый пласт турк­мен­ской соци­аль­ной куль­ту­ры. (далее…)

Welcome to Turkmen Notebooks, a website devoted to documenting, preserving, and archiving the history of independent thought in Turkmenistan since it became a sovereign country in 1991.

Turkmenistan has one of the world’s most authoritarian and closed regimes, and, as such, is often portrayed as country in which the people are completely cut off from the world, repressed, and unable to speak their minds. This is, in many ways, true. (далее…)