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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Daniel Kalder, a Scottish travel writer, was channel-surfing in Moscow in the early 2000s when he found himself ...

The Book of Genesis begins by asserting, in the most fundamental way, that when God says a thing, it happens: “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” We mortals may or may not be ...

Turkmenistan marked its 25th year of independence on October 27 and -- while life has always been hard for the some 5 million people in the isolationist, authoritarian state -- this year’s anniversary ...

This is the biggest city in Turkmenistan that also serves as the nation’s capital. It houses the largest mosque in Central Asia called the Kipchak mosque. This mosque recently generated lots of ...

Recently, the State Department announced a potentially significant change in U.S. policy towards Turkmenistan when it was designated a “country of particular concern” (CPC) for particularly severe ...

Turkmenistan was once an important stop on the Silk Road, and the country still has 2,000 years of architectural masterpieces. But since the fall of the Soviet Union, Turkmenistan’s capital city ...

...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring As Turkmenistan tries to dismantle the personality cult of its late authoritarian ruler, taking down monuments and updating school ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. In a plaza on the southern outskirts of Turkmenistan’s capital, ...

The late Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov (who liked to be known as Turkmenbashi, or "Leader of the Turkmen") is remembered for an authoritarian style and eccentric personality cult embodied by ...

Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan's first President-for-Life, once suggested that reading his “Ruhnama” (“The Book of the Soul”) three times would be enough to guarantee a person's place in heaven. But ...

Over the past half-century, humans have sent probes throughout the solar system and beyond. We’ve learned a tremendous amount about other planets, other stars, and what it would take to found a colony ...