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La “città di marmo” Ashgabat, capitale del Turkmenistan, detiene il Guinness World Record per la più alta densità di edifici rivestiti in marmo: oltre 4,5 milioni di metri quadrati di questa pietra bianca ornano i suoi palazzi. Ma dietro a tanto sfarzo si cela una realtà poco conosciuta. In questo episodio vedremo nel dettaglio perché questa imponente città resta deserta e perché il Turkmenistan è tra le nazioni più difficili da visitare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Area/TopicExtreme Adventure, Storm Chasing, The Explorers Club, Nature Documentary FilmmakingGeorge KourounisExplorer In ResidenceRoyal Canadian Geographical SocietyGeorge Kourounis has a passion for the world's extremes. As an explorer, storm chaser, TV presenter, and Explorer-In-Residence for the RCGS, he's travelled to 80 countries on all 7 continents to document extreme forces of nature so that others can appreciate the power of Mother Nature's temper tantrums.  For 25 years he has chased tornadoes on the Great Plains, driven into the eye of hurricanes along the Gulf Coast, rappelled deep in the crater of active volcanoes in the Congo & South Pacific, climbed mountains in North Korea, and earned a Guinness World Record for become the first person to set foot at the bottom of the Darvaza flaming gas crater in Turkmenistan while leading an expedition for National Geographic.http://furiousearth.com/Stormchaser.htmlSummaryGeorge Kourounis, an explorer in residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, shares his journey from being a musician and sound engineer to becoming a full-time storm chaser and adventurer. He specializes in traveling the world and documenting extreme forces of nature and natural disasters. George discusses the changing media landscape with the rise of social media and YouTube, and how it has both made it easier and more difficult for aspiring explorers and filmmakers. He also talks about his involvement with the Explorers Club and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and his passion for documenting extreme places and natural phenomena, particularly volcanoes. George Kourounis shares his fascination with volcanoes and his experience of getting married on top of an exploding volcano. He discusses the concept of adventure travel and the importance of stepping outside of one's comfort zone. George also talks about his expedition to Turkmenistan's flaming crater, known as the 'Doorway to Hell,' and his mission to study the microbes living at the bottom of the crater. He describes the challenges of obtaining permission and the intense experience of being at the bottom of the flaming pit. In this final part of the conversation, George Kourounis discusses the intentional efforts of Turkmenistan to put out the fire in the Darvaza gas crater and reclaim the gas for profit. He also talks about the unique architecture and empty streets of the capital city, Ashgabat. George shares his experiences connecting with locals in Turkmenistan and other countries he has visited. The conversation then shifts to the topic of food, with George sharing his most bizarre food experience of eating a piece of a 10,000-year-old woolly mammoth in Siberia. The importance of being cautious with food and water while traveling is also emphasized.TakeawaysGeorge Kourounis specializes in traveling the world and documenting extreme forces of nature and natural disasters.The media landscape has changed dramatically with the rise of social media and YouTube, making it easier for anyone to create and share content, but also increasing competition.George is involved with the Explorers Club and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, organizations that promote discovery, exploration, and conservation.His passion lies in documenting extreme places and natural phenomena, particularly volcanoes. Volcanoes are fascinating and beautiful natural phenomena that can be both destructive and awe-inspiring.Adventure travel is about stepping outside of one's comfort zone and experiencing new Learn more about the Big World Made Small Podcast and join our private community to get episode updates, special access to our guests, and exclusive adventure travel offers at bigworldmadesmall.com.

Embark on a journey from Poland to China in this riveting episode as we explore why dictators are drawn to town squares and how these very squares become the stages of their demise. From Tiananmen Square in Beijing, witness the poignant events of 1989, to the Grand Market in Krakow, a symbol of resilience against Nazi and Communist regimes. Discover the historical significance of town squares as dictators' theatres of power and learn how, in a twist of fate, these squares become the battlegrounds for resistance, ultimately sealing the fate of autocracies.  Till then Check out the other episodes, The strange Polish notion of Holocaust Envy - https://bit.ly/48zECZr The Oak Tree that chronicled Poland's Modern History - https://bit.ly/4b1PlO8 The suprising evolution of Polish food - https://bit.ly/48RUGWe The complicated legacy of Schindler's List - https://bit.ly/3vF9NEi The untold story of Holocaust heroism: 'Under the Eagle' Pharmacy - https://bit.ly/3vEtzzL Two Billion Euros and the Polish Temple of Memory - https://bit.ly/3HjkrmN You can check previous episodes of 'Podcasts from Nowhere' on https://bit.ly/4b3wOB8  You can reach out to our host Utsav on Instagram: @‌whywetravel42(https://www.instagram.com/whywetravel42  ) Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media. We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram.  Do share the word with your folks!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Darzava, nel deserto del Karakum, in Turkmenistan c'è un incredibile cratere che emette gas conosciuto come "la porta dell'inferno", una voragine infuocata che brucia ininterrottamente da 50 anni. Si trova a 260 chilometri dalla capitale, Ashgabat, e in Asia è chiamata "Darvaza" che significa "cancello", ecco perché questo luogo è anche conosciuto come "cancelli degli inferi" . Era il 1971 quando si formò un cratere di circa 70 metri di diametro a seguito di un incidente causato dall'uomo. I sovietici stavano scavando in mezzo al deserto in cerca di gas e petrolio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The president of Turkmenistan officially inaugurated a vast, multibillion-dollar development hailed as the country's first “smart city” and named after the president's father, who established a pervasive cult of personality when he was the longtime ruler. The city designed for 70,000 is named Arkadag (Protector), a title used by former president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who led the country for 15 years before being succeeded last year by his son Serdar. The opening ceremony, led by Serdar Berdymukhamedov, featured a theatrical procession of local workers singing patriotic songs in honor of the city's namesake. The city includes a monument of his father's favorite horse, which established the Guinness world record for running 10 meters on its hind legs. Located about 30 kilometers (about 18 miles) south of the capital Ashgabat, the “smart city” is being presented as a prototype for other Turkmen cities, featuring electric buses and automobiles, solar power and “smart” houses that residents can control via their smartphones. The first phase of Arkadag cost an estimated $3.3 billion. Since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Turkmenistan has been led by authoritarian regimes that allow no significant opposition and has sharply limited access from abroad. Both the elder Berdymukhamedov and his predecessor Saparmurat Niyazov developed cults of personality that included elaborate tributes and monuments. The isolated country has also struggled to diversify its economy, which is overwhelmingly dependent on its vast natural gas reserves. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

Полина Курач - сооснователь PR сервиса ПРОЩЕ. Консультант российских и международных проектов по стратегическим консультациям. Работала с: Whirlpool, Алроса, Камаз, Jumeirah, Qiwi, Checkme, Mirai.flights и другими крупными игроками рынка. Также работала на Олимпийских Играх в Сочи и Рио-де-Жанейро, EXPO в Астане, AIMAG в Ашхабаде, Неделе Моды в Нью Йорке. Polina Kurach is a co-founder of the PROSHE PR service, strategic communications consultant. Clients include: Whirlpool, Alrosa, Kamaz, Jumeirah, Qiwi, Checkme, Mirai.flights and other major market players. Also worked at the Olympic Games in Sochi and Rio de Janeiro, EXPO in Astana, AIMAG in Ashgabat, New York Fashion Week. FIND POLINA ON SOCIAL MEDIA Linkedin | Facebook | Instagram | Telegram ================================SUPPORT & CONNECT:Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/denofrichTwitter: https://twitter.com/denofrichFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.develman/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/denofrichInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/den_of_rich/Hashtag: #denofrich© Copyright 2023 Den of Rich. All rights reserved.

In Episode 14 of Do Not Adjust Your Focus, the podcast from sustainability and communications consultancy Blurred, Stuart talks to award-winning author, Ray Nayler. Ray is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Mountain in the Sea, which The Washington Post called "(a) poignant, mind-expanding debut." The Mountain in the Sea is a finalist for the Nebula Award and for the LA Times Book Awards' Ray Bradbury Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. The novel dramatizes what happens, in a post-climate-crisis, AI-centric world, when humankind discovers super intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture. It prompts us to question, what is intelligence – human, computer, animal – and what kind of intelligence do we need to thrive on a fragile planet?In this podcast episode, Stuart and Ray explore the climate crisis, how humanity is responding and might respond better and how the emergence of ChatGPT heralds the coming of true AI. Ray also reveals his creative approach to writing and storytelling and shared a lesson that is relevant to everyone in comms: communication must involve the audience, who, as Ray puts it, are “curled into the narrative”. Storytelling is about “building a place where you ask questions.”​​Born in Quebec and raised in California, Ray Nayler lived and worked abroad for two decades in Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, and Kosovo. Ray works for the US Department of State, and previously worked in international educational development, as well as serving in the Peace Corps in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In Vietnam he was Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer at the U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Ray currently serves as the international advisor to the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Beginning in August, 2023, he will take up a residency at the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at The George Washington University. He holds an MA in Global Diplomacy from the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, the University of London. 

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Political correspondent Tal Schneider, diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman and environment reporter Sue Surkes join host Amanda Borschel-Dan in today's episode. We begin with a short report from the Turkmenistan-Iran border from Schneider, who is with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen as he is set to open Israel's first embassy in the Islamic nation today Berman discusses why the new Turkmenistan embassy is important to Israel's strategic position in the region. Reports are circulating that young MK May Golan may be up for the important role of New York Consul. Why is she a controversial choice? Surkes explains how the crazy spring weather could pay off with a late-season wildflower boom. Where should be go to find them? And finally, Jews all over the world are currently counting the Omer. Before Surkes dives into the agricultural reasons, Berman explains this practice is. Discussed articles include: Turkmenistan looking to open embassy in Israel, president tells FM Cohen Top diplomat Cohen arrives in Turkmenistan to open embassy near Iran border Netanyahu said looking to appoint far-right firebrand as New York consul Israel's total rainfall normal, despite dry start; cold promises late floral show Subscribe to The Times of Israel Daily Briefing on iTunes, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. ILLUSTRATIVE IMAGE: Voters applaud dancers wearing national costume at a polling station in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, March 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Vershinin)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we take a look at: - Kazakhstan seizing part of the Russian Space Program - Bank reforms in Kyrgyzstan - A Russian governor seeking refuge in Kyrgyzstan - Mirzioyev announcing a referendum - Earthquakes in Tajikistan - A football tournament coming to Central Asia - Turkmenistan announces snap election - Ashgabat placing even more restrictions on Exit Visas. And our deep dive into - Analysing the Results of the Kazakh Parliamentary Elections Joining us this week: -  Aigerim Toleukhavona (Eurasianet) Follow the show on @SLonCentralAsia Follow Oxus on @OxusSociety Follow Michael on @MikeHilliardAusFor more info please visit - www.oxussociety.org

This week we take a look at: - Major policy changes at the Kazakh border. - Russia forging ahead with plans for a gas network across the region. - Astana refusing to punish journalists over their coverage of the War in Ukraine. - Border delimitation progress between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. - Bishkek taking ownership of a new set of Turkish drones. - Uzbekistan bracing for a series of floods. - Karakalpak activists being jailed. - Problems worsening for the Tajik internet infrastructure. - The cost of living crisis worsening throughout Turkmenistan And our deep dive into - The Coup in Ashgabat, the Return of Gurbanguly. Joining us this week: - Luca Ancheschi (Uni of Glasgow) Follow the show on @SLofCentralAsia Follow Oxus on @OxusSociety Follow Michael on @MikeHilliardAus

The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan says if you're trying to smuggle its prized native dog breed out of the country, you're barking up the wrong tree. The government is now requiring that its celebrated Alabay dogs receive a passport before they can leave the country. A law that took effect last month requires that all puppies of the breed, which is also known as the Central Asian shepherd dog, be marked in the government's pedigree book and register of pedigreed dogs. Passports will be issued including data on the dog's sex, date of birth, color, as well as details about the owner. Special government export permission will be required. Turkmenistan, an isolated desert country of 6 million people, prides itself on its horses and dogs, honoring centuries-old herding traditions. Alabay, traditionally used for guarding livestock herds, are among the world's largest dogs, weighing as much as 80 kilograms (175 pounds). In 2020, then-President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov established a holiday honoring the dogs, and last year unveiled a 15-meter (50-foot)-tall golden statue of them in the nation's capital, Ashgabat. The Turkmen leader extolled the Alabay for years. He published a book and wrote a song about the breed and presented Russian President Vladimir Putin with an Alabay puppy in 2017. Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov's son, Serdar, who was elected president this year, heads the international association of Alabays. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

The sun is shining, the weather is nice and EVERYBODY is talking about Saparmurat Niyazov, the Soviet-style dictator who ruled Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. During Niyazov’s reign, he ruined the economy, renamed the days of the week after his family members, banned dogs and cigarettes, and generally made life miserable for his subjects. He also tried to build an ice palace in the sweltering desert. This week, Chris, James and Michael take a walk through the streets of old Ashgabat to learn about the self-proclaimed Great Leader of all Turkmen. PLUS: during the intro, we take an unforgettable trip to The James Zone. Thank you to Present Day Gifts for their assistance. If you’re looking for a magnificent gift basket for any occasion, look no further than Present Day Gifts. Support Evil Men on Patreon for EXCLUSIVE bonus episodes and special treats. Follow Evil Men on Twitter and Instagram. And rate and review us wherever possible! Brought to you By: The Sonar Network

Our guest is Ayjemal Gurbanova. She is a journalist, content writer and a voice actor. Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by the Caspian Sea and largely covered by the Karakum Desert. It is the second largest state in Central Asia, after Kazakhstan. From 1925 to 1991 Turkmenistan was the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent (union) republic of the Soviet Union; it declared independence on October 27, 1991. The capital is Ashgabat (Ashkhabad), which lies near the southern border with Iran. (www.britannica.com) Chapters:00:00 Opening01:42 About the guest Ayjemal08:27 Turkmen language10:22 Greetings in Turkmenistan13:51 What might surprise foreigners if they visit Turkmenistan?17:11 Three aspects of your culture to put in a "time box" for the future42:40 Misconceptions about Turkmenistan56:56 Best time to the visit the countryConnect with Ayjemal:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nukdaynazar/Email: gurbanovayjemal@gmail.com

Reisebeschreibung Seidenstraße Von Frankfurt/M. aus geht es nach Ashgabat. In Turkmenistan haben wir für 5 Tage einen Guide, der uns einiges zeigen wird. Wir fahren u.a. in die Ruinenstadt Merw und kommen von dort mit dem Flieger wieder zurück nach Ashgabat, ehe es schon zu einem Höhepunkt der Reise geht: an das Door to Hell. Dieser Gaskrater brennt schon seit langer Zeit und ist besonders stimmungsvoll am Abend. Wir übernachten in einer Jurte am Kraterrand, haben am Abend ein Barbeque und am morgen ein Frühstück in dieser einzigartigen Kulisse. Einige Geocaches liegen hier, den Länderpunkt Turkmenistan werden wir aber bereits in Ashgabat gefunden haben. Weiter geht es nach Usbekistan, dem wohl touristenfreundlichsten Land der Tour. Wir haben bewußt drei Städte ausgesucht, in denen Kultur und Geschichte eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Buchara, Samarkand und Taschkent werden wir besuchen - jeweils mit einem Anreise- und einem vollen Tag Zeit für Erkundungen. Die Wege in Usbekistan werden wir mit dem Zug zurücklegen - ein beliebtes Reisemittel in diesem Land. Weiter geht es nach Usbekistan, dem wohl touristenfreundlichsten Land der Tour. Wir haben bewußt drei Städte ausgesucht, in denen Kultur und Geschichte eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Buchara, Samarkand und Taschkent werden wir besuchen - jeweils mit einem Anreise- und einem vollen Tag Zeit für Erkundungen. Die Wege in Usbekistan werden wir mit dem Zug zurücklegen - ein beliebtes Reisemittel in diesem Land. Unser nächster Punkt ist Almaty in Kassachstan. Von dort aus erobern wir die Länder Kirgistan und Tadschikistan jeweils mit einem Tagesausflug. Nach Bischkek in Kirgistan geht es mit Bus bzw. PKW mit Fahrer und nach Duschanbe in Tadschikistan geht unser letzter Kurzstreckenflug. Alle historischen Gebäude, Baudenkmäler und Gebäude, die wir sehen werden, können wir hier gar nicht aufzählen. Die Kosten für die 15 Tage sind nicht ganz gering, beachtet bitte, dass für 5 Tage bereits Vollverpflegung inkludiert ist mit Lunch und Dinner und Getränken. Ebenso ein Guide, der uns viele historische Stätten und besondere Bauwerke zeigen wird. Auf der ganzen Tour haben wir Hotels der gehobenen Klasse ausgesucht, mind. 4*. Einzige Ausnahme: die Jurte am Gas-Krater, die auch in der Einzelzimmerleistung nicht möglich ist. Jeden Tag gehen wir gestärkt mit einem Frühstück zu neuen Abenteuern. Wie immer gilt: kein Anspruch auf das Erreichen eines bestimmten Geocaches, die Reihenfolge der Tour kann sich ebenso noch ändern. Die Planung dieser Route war für uns das bisher schwierigste Unternehmen. In Zentralasien ticken die Uhren anders, das hängt auch nicht unbedingt mit Corona zusammen. Dennoch ist aktuell nichts sicher. Deshalb hier unser Versprechen: Sollte die Seidenstraßentour aufgrund der Pandemie nicht stattfinden können, ist für Euch kein Risiko damit verbunden. Ihr zahlt mit Eurer Buchung (entgegen unserer AGB) nichts. Erst 8 Wochen vor der Reise wird der Reisepreis fällig, wir hoffen Mitte März sicher sein zu können, ob wir die Tour auch so antreten können. Wir brauchen aber auch Eure Zusage: mit Eurer Buchung bucht Ihr verbindlich. Sollte die Tour stattfinden, dann seid Ihr dabei. Wir hoffen, wir haben Euch ein tolles, reizvolles Programm zusammengestellt und Ihr seid morgen bereit zum buchen? Wir freuen uns auf Euch! Noch nicht beim Newsletter angemeldet? Dann aber schnell: Newsletteranmeldung --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cacher-reisen/message

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Dating back centuries, relations between Turkey and Iran have seen their ups and downs. But a recent meeting between Turkish President Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Raisi in Turkmenistan's capital Ashgabat, may have provided a platform for the two leaders to discuss several regional challenges, from security to an influx of migrants. So, can the two neighbours co-operate to take on the challenges together? Or could spoilers could get in the way? Guests: Talha Kose Brussels Coordinator for SETA Mohammad Marandi Political Analyst

Turkmenistan, an unusual country in Central Asia, dominated by two despot dictators. It's one of the craziest and strangest countries to ever visit. Your host Stephen Bailey recalls a trip to Turkmenistan, visiting the marble city of Ashgabat and a marble Olympic Stadium that's never been used. Stephen meets Turkmen people when staying in a homestay and contrasts local life and the bizarre capital Ashgabat.

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We are chasing the sun this week with drastically different summer days! Alison is in Turkmenistan searching for shade, while Lulu is slathering the SPF on in St. Pete Beach! Get the details here!FOLLOW US:FacebookInstagramYoutubeTwitterPinterestApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyStitcherSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/10KDollarDay/)

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused historic disruption to international mobility and it has prompted many companies to re-evaluate how they will manage a mobile workforce after the pandemic or if they should have stints overseas now that virtual work has become the norm for many companies.  A new list of the world's most expensive cities could help companies decide and here is a surprise, it is not the usual suspects that top the list, but Ashgabat in Turkmenistan that is the world's most expensive city. If you wondered what the attraction of Ashgabat is - it is described as a deserted white marble city with gold statues and manicured gardens, is on the old Silk Road and has vast natural oil and gas reserves. BizNews spoke to Vladimir Vrzhovski from Mercer, the company that published the 2021 Cost of Living Survey to find out the reason for Ashgabat's top position and where South African cities ranked.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused historic disruption to international mobility and it has prompted many companies to re-evaluate how they will manage a mobile workforce after the pandemic or if they should have stints overseas now that virtual work has become the norm for many companies.  A new list of the world's most expensive cities could help companies decide and here is a surprise, it is not the usual suspects that top the list, but Ashgabat in Turkmenistan that is the world's most expensive city. If you wondered what the attraction of Ashgabat is - it is described as a deserted white marble city with gold statues and manicured gardens, is on the old Silk Road and has vast natural oil and gas reserves. BizNews spoke to Vladimir Vrzhovski from Mercer, the company that published the 2021 Cost of Living Survey to find out the reason for Ashgabat's top position and where South African cities ranked.

Nem Hong Kong, Tóquio ou Nova Iorque, mas Ashgabat, no Turquemenistão, devido à crise no país. A Casa Branca de Londres foi dividida em 22 apartamentos. E roubaram o iPad ao presidente sulafricano. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Solo female traveler Katie Aune recounts impressions from her visit to the reclusive country of Turkmenistan, which was part of a broader, year-long trip across the former Soviet republics.  The two discuss striving for authenticity in a socially repressive regime, and many of the relatively unknown natural features of this nation.

Sinéad Gordon is an experienced project manager, with a proven track record in delivering international world-class competitions and events. She is currently working as the Director of Governance & Strategy at Sport Ireland and previously was the Operations Manager for the Sport Ireland Campus. Sinéad has also worked as General Manager with Basketball Ireland, as the Head of Basketball Operations with Great Britain Basketball and as the Competitions Manager with FIBA Europe. She was one of the first Irish FIBA Technical Delegates and has a particular interest in the area of sport development and governance. She served as the basketball/wheelchair basketball technical operations manager at the 2012 London Olympics, as well as the 3X3 competition manager at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. Additionally, she has served as the Senior Cluster Manager- Sport for the 5th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in 2017, with Paralympics Ireland as the Event Director of the Para Swimming European Championships held in Dublin, Ireland in 2018, and as Operations Manager of the Invictus Games in Australia in 2018. She earned her BSc in Sport and Exercise Science from University of Limerick and her MSc. in Sport Management from University College Dublin (UCD). You can learn more about Sport Ireland here: https://www.sportireland.ie/. The email for anyone wanting to contact Sinéad is sineadgordon@gmail.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tim-rice4/support

Il Turkmenistan ha una storia complessa e ricca di sfaccettature, nella quale è possibile osservare un passato tanto turco quanto indo-europeoSeguite tutti gli aggiornamenti sulla pagina instagram @medioorienteedintorni , per articoli e podcast visitate il nostro sito https://mediorientedintorni.com/ trovate anche la "versione articolo". Vuoi avere tutto in unico posto? Iscriviti al gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/mediorientedintorni Ogni like, condivisione o supporto è ben accetto e ci aiuta a dedicarci sempre di più alla nostra passione: raccontare il Medio Oriente

Sovietistan è uno dei migliori libri in assoluto per entrare in contatto con l’Asia centrale, una regione incredibile, stracolma di contraddizioni e di tesori e che, proprio per questo, va più che mai approfondita (parte 1: Turkmenistan e Kazakistan)Seguite tutti gli aggiornamenti sulla pagina instagram @medioorienteedintorni , per articoli e podcast visitate il nostro sito https://mediorientedintorni.com/ trovate anche la "versione articolo". Vuoi avere tutto in unico posto? Iscriviti al gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/mediorientedintorni Ogni like, condivisione o supporto è ben accetto e ci aiuta a dedicarci sempre di più alla nostra passione: raccontare il Medio Oriente

Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to HeartlandBy Caroline Eden Intro: Welcome to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery by the Book with Suzy Chase. She's just a home cook in New York City sitting at her dining room table, talking to cookbook authors.Caroline Eden: Hi, my name is Caroline Eden. I'm the author of Black Sea and Red Sands, which is my new book, Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia from Hinterland to Heartland.Suzy Chase: Last we chatted was in August, 2019 and you were on to celebrate my 150th episode with Black Sea. Welcome back and happy, happy new year. It has to be a happy new year!Caroline Eden: Thanks very much for having me back on Suzy and really nice to be here.Suzy Chase: So how does the landscape shape the food in Central Asia?Caroline Eden: That's a good question. Central Asia is a vast sways of the middle of Asia, the Heartland of Asia and I concentrate on four of the five countries of Central Asia in this book. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Put most simply there are two groups traditionally, historically within Central Asia, the nomads and the settled people of towns and cities, which have scattered along The Silk Road, the nomads were very dependent on what they had to hand out on The Steppe that was meat, horse meat, generally, and, sheep, mutton and the milk that their animals produced. So meat and milk, very, very basic diet and the people in the settled places more in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and parts of Turkmenistan, which I don't feature in the book, had access to far greater produce, produce that was coming in from East to West West to East and access to orchards big irrigation systems leading in from the rivers. Very good nut and fruit forests and access to meat and some fish as well in the river so that's really how it's split. It's between the settled people in the towns and villages and the people who are out with livestock out in The Steppe.Suzy Chase: So that's what I was going to ask you, why isn't Turkmenistan in this book.Caroline Eden: I really struggled with whether to include Turkmenistan or not because it's a fascinating country on the Caspian Sea, a lot of great, interesting historical stories, which I could have pulled out from the country however, it's run by a dictator at the moment and reporting there freely is really problematic. So you can go and I could have gone, but outside of the city, the capital city Ashgabat, I would have been given a guide and would have been quite restricted to how I could travel and talk to people and that's not really how I like to travel when I'm researching these books I like to go slowly and speak to people freely and respectfully and sort of take my time and I felt if I went, it would be slightly controlled so I chose not to go at this time.Suzy Chase: So Red Sands consists of two parts, two main parts, spring and autumn. You start in the springtime shores of the Caspian Sea out West and the largest country in the region, oil rich Kazakhstan and you open the book and Aktau West Kazakhstan walking on the promenade of the Caspian Sea. You called it a city of edited geography and simulated environments. I'm curious to hear about that.Caroline Eden: Great. I'm glad you, I'm glad you brought this up because I was really fascinated with Aktau. It's a curious place. So the Ukrainians and the Russians built it basically in the 1950s, there wasn't anything there before. And the way that it's laid out today is there are not addresses as we would know them I mean quite different in New York to say London but we don't have blocks as you know, we have streets and the addresses are different, but that they just have numbers say the addresses read like telephone numbers so you'll have a block and then a flat number and that will be contained within a micro district, which is quite a sort of Soviet design, not that unusual, but in Aktau there's only really a few street names of the major thoroughfares, which run through and it's a really interesting place. I don't think it really gets any tourism and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. I mean, Kazakhstan is the ninth biggest country in the world and you can get off well, you're off the beaten track if you're out with the two main setters Nursultan and Almaty, but Aktau is really far out geographically it's very, very remote and apart from that sort of city and a few oil, this is sort of the oil part of Kazakhstan, oil cities, you're into The Desert Steppe very quickly and absolutely remote fantastically beautiful. So yeah, we start there, which it felt like a natural place to start.Suzy Chase: Talk a little bit about lunch in the Kyzylkum Desert, which means, I guess it means red sand?Caroline Eden: Yeah, that's true. I was traveling through the Kyzylkum Desert a few years back now and we stopped for lunch, I think it was about a six hour drive and this building sort of appeared in the scrubby desert and this isn't sort of like rolling sand dunes it's quite scrubby with bushes and things growing and that sort of landscape and this desert cafe appeared almost out of nowhere and the sort of saffron colored scrub, which is perfect timing. So we went in for lunch. I had a driver with me and they were making a very basic menu there you basically ate what you could smell, so you could smell the bread. They had a tandoor oven, so a beautiful, fresh chewy in the middle crisp underneath bread, shashlik you know, like skewered meat, lovely smell of that sort of smoke corkscrewing up from the grill, some little onion rings and tea. So I sat and I had this lunch and it just struck me how entirely suited it was to its remote surroundings, this lunch. And I'd never sort of eaten anyway, but so simple yet so harmoniously in tune with its really quite extreme environment and that kind of sums up Central Asia when you get out of the cities. The food is pretty simple and authentic in the sense that it's not really changed for a very long time and I just had a bit of a moment really, and I thought this is quite remarkable. I also quartered a watermelon, which I talk about in the book as well, and shared that round with some men that were sat at the raised tea bed you tend to sit on in Central Asia and yeah, I just, I had a moment in this cafe thinking this could be quite an interesting spot for a book to use the desert as the heart, and then sort of travel on way beyond the sand borders of the Kyzylkum Desert. It's not huge and it just sort of spans Kazakhstan a little bit and Uzbekistan quite a lot. So yeah, to use that as a focus and then to travel way beyond, obviously using food, again as a theme of recipes to express the journey.Suzy Chase: In Red Sands, you talk about how you have to stop and you have to digest and I was wondering, there's so much glorious, granular detail in this book did you have a pencil and paper out all the time? How did you record everything?Caroline Eden: Yeah, I mean, I have, obviously I have a notebook and a pen with me I also use a voice recorder sometimes and I take a lot of photographs. I work as a journalist part of the time and so I'm always taking notes. I do think it's actually best to take notes because a photograph can only do the visuals and a voice recording can only do the sounds whereas if you're writing, you can kind of take everything down in one go. So yeah, I mean, some of it comes later from the photographs and some of it comes at the time. It's lovely to sit in the train or sit in the cafe and just absorb what's happening around youSuzy Chase: I love that you wrote in the book "On these long journeys, the tempo of food and meal times becomes a mental rudder."Caroline Eden: Yeah, I think it does. I mean, these were big journeys, six months in 2019 in Central Asia moving around. So sometimes when I go to Central Asia, I've just been in earlier in 2020, I spent a few months just in Bishkek, in the Capital of Kyrgyzstan, but this was two long trips in the spring and autumn of six months moving around and it's exhausting. I'm not that young. I mean, I'm not that young anymore the beds are quite rough and the roads are really rough and sometimes you go a bit hungry and thirsty if you're crossing a mountain range or a desert, and it's dusty, it's quite rough and ready sometimes. In Dushanbe, for example, the capital of Tajikistan, when you go and try to arrange a car and a driver, if the economy is not so good, which is often the case, you get mobbed by drivers wanting your business, pulling you and tussling with you and shouting at you. I'm always very honest about how I report back from central Asia and it is wonderful, but it's also, it can be really hard work. It's never really scary, but it can be quite unnerving sometimes. So for me, food is good to think with, but it's also essential because it's a rest. So it helps you catch the feel of a place, but also, you know, you need to sometimes just sit down at a bar for a few hours and have a couple of beers and digest what's just happened on this journey you've been on for the last two days. I think that's really important, whatever age you are.Suzy Chase: Speaking of digesting, you were in Bishkek in October smack in the middle of the violence and you had a front row seat from your balcony. Can you talk a little bit about Bishkek before the revolution and then after the revolution?Caroline Eden: Yeah. Okay. So this isn't in the book. This year I was in Bishkek for a while with a Russian tutor my Russian is still not anywhere near where it should be and I've got a great Russian teacher in Bishkek and I was there doing some reporting as well and meeting up with some colleagues and stuff. There were elections scheduled. No one really predicted very much was going to happen. My husband's a news journalist, and I know some of the other news journalists in the region and no one was really talking this up to be a thing. And I was there in an apartment by myself on one of the main squares. Yeah it hugely kicked off. I mean, Bishkek has had two previous uprising/revolutions in the last 15 years, this is the third one and the previous two had been extremely violent with a lot of loss of life. And I had a whole night glued to the balcony apart from when the gunfire was really close and I thought the windows might get blown in watching the sky light up with explosions, listening to water cannons,grenades, constant firing. I didn't know what they were firing the police. I was terrified it was live rounds turns out it was not rubber bullets, but sort of pellets, which were very dangerous and a complete night of carnage. So...Suzy Chase: We all followed along on your Instagram with you?Caroline Eden: Yeah it took about 10 days for it to calm down and the elections now actually about to take place so we'll see what happens, but all the main parliamentary buildings were stormed, the president fled, I mean, it was complete chaos. It was really interesting. I did some news reporting for the BBC and stuff, but it was quite scary at times I was terrified people might just try and break into the apartment block to get away from whoever they were running from. I mean, these are good, solid Soviet built apartments you would have a job to do, you know, it was by myself in a city where I sort of vaguely knew two people. It was quite scary. Yeah.Suzy Chase: Oh man. So the landscape is incredible, but what you're really interested in are the man-made buildings. Talk a bit about how you named each essay.Caroline Eden: I mean every book needs a structure. I was saying this to somebody the other day and it's kind of, that sounds a bit cynical, but you've got to shape it somehow. So I was thinking, what do I think of when I think of Central Asia obviously I think of food and I think of the landscape, but actually more any of that, I do think of the man-made buildings because that's where the stories are I mean, obviously if you're a nature writer, you can talk about nature forever and how inspiring and beautiful and interesting it is but for me, I'm more interested in people and the human landscape, human stories. So for the book I wanted to structure it around a building. So Pavlodar for example, is called Konditorei. It was a cake shop I featured this fantastic cake shop and then the essay from that is Skyscraper and that's now Sultan in the North, which has the new capital because it's extremely modern and everybody always talks about the architecture there and the fantastic buildings. And then we go on to Karlag, which was the Kazakh sort of name for, for gulag like it was their particular gulag chain that Stalin set up. So that is a kind of like theme through the book, these little headings so you have a heading like Karlag and I have a subtitle Remembering Stalin's victims and then I actually have a date line a bit like you get in a newspaper. So it would be Karlag Remembering Stalin's victims, and then Akmal North Kazakhstan and the reason I did that was because I'm aware that I'm taking people to places which are quite unfamiliar still and I wanted that dateline there just to immediately place people, because there's only so much detail we could put on the map at the front of the book, the map is more primitive than I would have liked, but it just gets very, very tight, very messy if you start putting all these little place names in, and you can't really work out where one country starts, neither one ends because the essays can kind of stand alone as well you don't have to read the book. I mean, ideally read the book from start to finish, but you could read a single essay and know where you are in the world and what basically the theme is going to be.Suzy Chase: You've been writing about Central Asia for over a decade now, how has the cuisine changed?Caroline Eden: It's changed and it's not changed. So what I loved in Bishkek this time last year in 2020, when I was there for a few months, it was quite how brilliant it is that you can get a bowl of ramen then now and very good sushi. This was not possible five years ago. I dare to say, actually the sushi restaurant has been there six years, but yeah, like sort of five, six, 10 years ago, it would be shashlik and plov and samsa and quite limited menus in the cafes and restaurants and now most of the big cities in Central Asia have good coffee shops so you can get a decent latte and this all sounds very kind of like, you know, winsome and unnecessary, but again, if you've been traveling for a really long time as an outsider, you might fancy some sushi and there's nothing wrong with that. And of course, local people want this food of course, many people travel outside of Central Asia now more and more and many people go to Russia and Turkey and so the more the region opens up and the more young people, you know, travel and come back with ideas and stuff, it's sort of really changing but still in people's homes, especially outside the big cities, it's quite traditional.Suzy Chase: I was surprised to discover your favorite central Asian dish is laghman and not plov.Caroline Eden: It is my favorite dish and I loads of it in Bishkek last year. It's just really delicious. I love noodles and laghman is basically a noodle dish and it's Uyghur the Turkey people living in Jinjiang in China. So it is a Central Asian dish because those people are Central Asian ethnically, and it's a sort of mild stewed meat and vegetables. Normally the noodles are hand pulled, it gives it a sort of thickness and a slightly sort of rustic feel. And it's just really delicious. It's pretty straightforward. Yeah a mild stew of meat and vegetables on top of the noodles often with celery, which I particularly like, and often with red bell peppers, some chives on the top maybe some sesame seeds, quite filling, but basically it's lamb and there's noodles and vegetables. It's really, really nice.Suzy Chase: Can you describe plov?Caroline Eden: I can. I mean I've talked about plov so much over the years and it's wonderful. The different variations that you have of it, unlike laghman it is quite varied. So plov, there are variations of plov. Sometimes you'll have it with quails eggs on the top of this rice dish, which is cooked in layers. Sometimes you might have it with barberries or quince if it's the season, but always plov is cooked with carrots and onions and rice cooked in layers with a lot of oil. And what makes a good plov normally is the cook who makes it, first of all, it's a slow dish. It's very calorific and then perhaps the setting where you're eating it. And more recently I discovered actually very good garlic makes a difference. So in Osh in Kyrgyzstan, which is a city, which is half Kyrgys is half Uzbek. There's a man called Imenjon, who I always stay with and his plob is my favorite plov and the reason I love Imenjon's plov is because he puts then to his plov whole peeled garlic cloves, which are scattered through the rice and then as you eat the plov you mash it through with the back of your fork and then along with the strong cumin seeds, which are very well toasted and very fresh carrots and onion and plump raisins with this rice, you eat this very filling, slightly oily, delicious really Moorish plov. And the other beautiful thing about Imenjon's plov is the type of the rice, which is quite important for plov. If I'm making a plov here at home in the UK, I just use basmati rice there is no point trying to mess about the short grain rice, because it's too sticky and it grains don't separate properly, and it becomes a bit of a mess but if I'm cooking a plov in Central Asia or from eating somebody else's plov, they're probably going to use something like uzgen rice, which is the rice that Imenjon uses and it's short and fat and reddish and very flavorsome. So it's the quality like so many things, the quality of the local ingredients and Imenjon is particularly good because he cooked it for two decades at the base camp of Peak Lenin for the Soviet mountaineers so he's extremely experienced and a wonderful person and a wonderful cook. I.Suzy Chase: In part two in Autumn you move on to The Steppe Desert and mountain cradle until you end up in Tajikistan in the Fergana Valley shared by Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan can you describe the Autumn markets?Caroline Eden: Well, they're an absolute heaven to me. So I think where you're describing is Khujand. Khujand is Northern Tajikistan, and it's the Tajik section of the Fergana Valley and has got a very, very good market and there you can buy things like fabulous lemons, which are like your meyer lemons that you can buy in America, which are new to me because we cannot get them here in the UK and they've got very thin skin and they're very, very juice heavy, and they've got a slight Tangerine sort of color and taste, and they're absolutely delicious. And the markets are just terrific. The melons that they have, there will probably be winter melons in the autumn, which would be early then, but then I sort of hung up on rafters in the market through the winter and they sort of mass extra sucrose they get sweeter and sweeter and they're hanging inside the markets, which is visually amazing and all along the way, as you're driving into Khujand along the outskirts are cabbage patches and apricot trees and fields of wheat and rice, and sort of gushing channels of the Syr Darya River, which comes through Khujand and it's just very, very fertile the Fergana Valley, lots of tributaries of water feeding this region, very, very rich, a lot of cotton fields as well but wonderful Khujand it's very Uzbek as a city when the Soviet Union was crazy, there were lots of strange borders and pockets of different groups of people ended up outside of the sort of traditional ethnic groups. So Khujand while it's in Tajikistan is quite Uzbek, but yeah, really, really interesting. I enjoyed it again very much and not a place that gets any tourism really. People go there a bit because Alexander The Great ended his advance within this region there and there's a very good regional museum, which explains the military leaders life and the time that he was there and the journey there quite pretentiously because that was where he ended so I stand on the bank of the Syr Darya and say, I've now got enough because this is where Alexander The Great had also had enough and so we end in Khujand.Suzy Chase: You know, after reading about the Uzbek melons in your book, I realized I probably have never had a good melon.Caroline Eden: Well you can have them in California because a couple of Uzbek varieties are now growing in California, which is amazing to me because we certainly cannot get them here.Suzy Chase: But you're getting them there, right? Aren't the UzbekI melons coming to Britain?Caroline Eden: I've heard that they are but I haven't seen them with my own eyes yet. There's a rumor circulating, which I'm very keen on that we might be getting them. It would probably become even more difficult now we've left the European Union. Germany, which has a relatively big Russian population and Russians appreciate those melons. I've heard you can get them in markets in Berlin. You can get them in Istanbul, but yeah, I mean really want to eat them in, in Uzbekistan because they are unlike any other type of melon. There's a huge number of over a hundred different varieties but extremely sweet, extremely sweet and the fruit generally is just fabulous it's a reason alone to go really is.Suzy Chase: The recipes in Red sands are like maps in the book. What sort of criteria did you use to choose the recipes?Caroline Eden: That's a good question. So I tend to choose recipes or dishes where they have a story attached to them that will reveal to us something new. So while I couldn't do a book on Central Asia with a food focus without including plav and laghman, I would rather include something else that would tell us something new about the region. So a couple of my recipes in the book are kind of fantastical. So there's a recipe for Anna Akhmatova, the Russian poet, because she spent time in Tashkent and that allows me to then talk about sort of Tashkent being a city of bread and a sort of refuge for people during difficult periods of Russian history and another recipe, for example for zapekanka, sort of a breakfast cake by a woman called Anna who's whose guest house that I stayed at and a Caspian anchor cocktail, that's sort of inspired by sea buckthorn which is a common ingredient so they should tell a story in order to be included and reveal to us something new because while Central Asia is still relatively under explored for its culinary delights, I wouldn't say it wasn't completely fresh territory at all. There are quite a lot of books in Russian on Central Asian food and all the books have been written. So yeah, I think you have to push the boundaries a bit and do something different otherwise you're just repeating.Suzy Chase: So what I love about your writing is you take us along your adventures here and there, and you sprinkle in some old stories or writings that pertain to your experience. Um, like in Pavlodar for example, you wrote the British copper miner John Wardell had to cross the river and the voyage took him seven hours. Like for me as the reader that makes me want to delve deeper into what you're writing about.Caroline Eden: Great. Well that certainly that idea. Um, yeah, John Wardell was an incredible character. He travels to the region, I think, was it in 1916 roundabout? And he went to mine copper for the czar he was an Englishman and yeah, he traveled... makes my journey look very easy. He was very, very interested in what he found there and wrote very beautifully about the seasons and the natural world. I like to bring in one or two travelers from the past to try and show what travel was like then and what it's like now and how some of it's actually stayed the same. So yeah John Wardell, I think he crossed with all of his belongings in the early summer, that river, the Irtysh and why, and I'm the ice floes are just attaching and it just sort of shows you a different scene. Um, I think when he crosses it, he's focused on it being 10 miles wide or something like that, which it was nowhere near that way when we were there. Yeah. So the river changes and yeah, John Wardell is very interesting. He's book is beautiful. I recommend it.Suzy Chase: I’m going to have to read that, you know, from Black Sea, I read Sitwell's Roumanian Journey because you brought it up in Black Sea.Caroline Eden: I remember you said you read that, which is fantastic. It's gotten forgotten. It's a real shame. So many books are published every year and some of these old travel books just sort of fall off the map and nice to bring them back.Suzy Chase: Now to my segment called Last Night's Dinner where I ask you what you had last night for dinner.Caroline Eden: Oh goodness. So that's quite easy for me actually, because I've been cooking a lot, like everybody during lockdown from my cookbooks, my cookbook collection, which is actually very modest from Roopa Gulati's Indian Vegetarian I absolutely love it and I cooked last night, her Rajasthani Onions, which are sort of onions cooked in cream, cause I happened to have some cream leftover in the fridge and they were really, really, really nice and I made that with a kedgeree with some mackerel cause I had a mackerel leftover in the fridge as well. So I had those two things together one was a website recipe and one was Roopa's, delicious creamy onions. Yeah. I'm a big, big fan of her cooking. I made her chapati's as well and I'm going to make her bhel puri later on this week. So yeah, I'm addicted to her book it's her new one.Suzy Chase: So where can we find you on the web and social media?Caroline Eden: I'm on Twitter and Instagram. I'm probably on Twitter a bit more, but the same handle for both @EdenTravels.Suzy Chase: All your books are so special. I cannot thank you enough, Caroline, for coming on Cookery by the Book Podcast.Caroline Eden: Suzy it's been a pleasure thank you for having me back.Outro: Subscribe over on CookerybytheBook.com and thanks for listening to the number one cookbook podcast, Cookery by the Book.

In questa puntata:- Top 5: notizie da Romania, Repubblica Ceca, Messico e Bulgaria- Focus: le follie (neutrali) del Turkmenistan- Erasmus: Laura Giuliani in Germania- Update: aggiornamenti da Estonia, Far Oer, Corea del Sud e Bielorussia

Welcome to the World news. World news keeps you updated news around the nations. Today's topic is "Tokyo is 3rd Most Expensive City for Expats" Tokyo is the third most expensive city for expatriates, or "expats", according to Mercer's 2020 Cost of Living Survey. That's one spot lower than in 2019, when Tokyo was in second place. Hong Kong is the most expensive city for expats, while Ashgabat in Turkmenistan is now the second most expensive. Six of the top 10 cities this year are in Asia. Mercer figures out the cost of living for expats to help employers know what they should pay staff who are working in other countries. To find the cost of living, Mercer looks at the price of more than 200 goods and services in over 200 cities. Mercer includes things like housing, food, utilities, transportation, entertainment, and clothing. Each city is then compared with New York City to find its rank. The city of Tunis, Tunisia, is the least expensive city for expats in 2020. The second least expensive is Windhoek, Namibia, and third least expensive is Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Because the survey was done during the coronavirus pandemic, Mercer also found that people were buying some products more than usual, like cleaning products, entertainment products, and "comfort food" — food that's eaten because it tastes good and makes people feel better. Cleaning products, such as soap and disinfectant, were most expensive in New York City. Mexico City had the most expensive entertainment products, like TVs and board games. And Hong Kong had the most expensive comfort food, like chocolate and frozen pizzas.

Often referred to as the North Korea of Central Asia, Turkmenistan is simply a desert of contradictions. A nation where you memorize poems to get your driver's license, where the president raps on TV, and where many Guinness world records are broken; but more importantly a nation of starving people on top of the 4th largest gas reserves in the world. We go deeper into this reclusive society and talk about their abandonment of Moscow and their newfound masters in Beijing, as well as how this country tries its best to stay neutral in a very dangerous geopolitical neighborhood. Guests this week are Peter Leonard (Eurasianet) Naz Nazar (Radio Free Europe) Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute) More info at -- www.theredlinepodcast.com Follow the show on - @TheRedLinePod Follow Michael on - @MikeHilliardAus Support the show on - https://www.patreon.com/theredlinepodcast

In Turkmenistan, detainees serving long-term prison sentences often literally “disappear” into the notorious Ovadan Depe prison outside of Ashgabat. Disappeared prisoners have no access to medical care or legal assistance; no information is provided to their families about their well-being. Current estimates indicate that more than 120 individuals are currently disappeared in Ovadan Depe, including Turkmenistan’s former foreign minister and former ambassador to the OSCE Batyr Berdiev, who disappeared into the Turkmen prison system in 2003. Kate Watters of the Prove They Are Alive! Campaign joins Helsinki Commission Senior Policy Advisor Janice Helwig to discuss the tragedy of those who have been disappeared, as well as the current situation in Turkmenistan and the steps that are being taken to encourage the Government of Turkmenistan to halt the practice and live up to its international commitments to human rights.

Questa puntata parte dalla ruota panoramica indoor più grande del mondo per raccontarvi come il culto della personalità possa raggiungere nuove vette nel mondo di oggi. Dalle vie di Ashgabat, la capitale del Turkmenistan, per parlarvi di come due dittatori moderni abbiano ridefinito i termini dell'assurdo.Con: Gian Mario Bachetti, Daniele De Bernardin, Matteo FranzaIn regia: Giovanni De SanctisMusiche: NoireggRegistrato e prodotto presso Sonus Factory (Via Costantino Corvisieri, Roma)

Hours after his journey back from Ashgabat, Travis and I sat down to discuss the biggest performances from Worlds, the pros and cons of drugs in the sport, and the programming lessons that he learned from Pyrros Dimas. weightliftinghouse.com - 30% off Barbells for Black Fridayhttps://www.mashelite.com/https://www.instagram.com/masheliteperformance/patreon.com/weightliftinghouse https://eu.virusintl.com/ - Europe Code weightliftinghouse

Hours after his journey back from Ashgabat, Travis and I sat down to discuss the biggest performances from Worlds, the pros and cons of drugs in the sport, and the programming lessons that he learned from Pyrros Dimas. weightliftinghouse.com - 30% off Barbells for Black Fridayhttps://www.mashelite.com/https://www.instagram.com/masheliteperformance/patreon.com/weightliftinghouse https://eu.virusintl.com/ - Europe Code weightliftinghouse

Phil Andrews joined me on the show this week to talk about the weightlifting climate post Worlds 2018. We spoke about drug testing, stipends, projected Olympic qualifications, and much more. Also find out which USAW athlete took home $80,000 from USAW last year!Get in contact with Phil:phil.andrews@usaweightlifting.org7192996020weightliftinghouse.com | Books & Barspatreon.com/weightliftinghousehttps://eu.virusintl.com/ code weightliftinghouse

Phil Andrews joined me on the show this week to talk about the weightlifting climate post Worlds 2018. We spoke about drug testing, stipends, projected Olympic qualifications, and much more. Also find out which USAW athlete took home $80,000 from USAW last year!Get in contact with Phil:phil.andrews@usaweightlifting.org7192996020weightliftinghouse.com | Books & Barspatreon.com/weightliftinghousehttps://eu.virusintl.com/ code weightliftinghouse

In this episode, Zack talks about his favorite performances and sessions from the 2018 IWF World Weightlifting Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

This is the second part of the recap of the World Championships! Tian, Sohrab, Lasha, Martirosyan, Tatiana, Meng and many, many more!

This is the second part of the recap of the World Championships! Tian, Sohrab, Lasha, Martirosyan, Tatiana, Meng and many, many more!

Glenn and I talk about the difference and interactions between the roles that skill and talent play in overall development in weightlifters. We also talk about the need for 'the other', something outside of weightlifting to allow us to maximally develop in the sport. We start off by talking briefly about the 100 year anniversary of the Armistice. Weightlifting starts at 09:54.weightliftinghouse.com Books & Barbellspatreon.com/weightliftinghouse https://eu.virusintl.com/

Glenn and I talk about the difference and interactions between the roles that skill and talent play in overall development in weightlifters. We also talk about the need for 'the other', something outside of weightlifting to allow us to maximally develop in the sport. We start off by talking briefly about the 100 year anniversary of the Armistice. Weightlifting starts at 09:54.weightliftinghouse.com Books & Barbellspatreon.com/weightliftinghouse https://eu.virusintl.com/

We are already 26 World Records down after the first half of a sensational news show. With incredible lifting from lifters like Shi Zhiyong, Deng Wei, Lu Xiaojun, and Sukanya Srisurat, it is vital that you stay up to date with it all!weightliftinghouse.com - books, barspatreon.com/weightliftinghouse

More in our continuing series of informal recordings from the World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In addition to the day's sessions and some training hall info, we discuss finally finding some good coffee AND we get some inside information from USAW's Pedro Meloni on an upcoming rule change in the IWF regarding touching the barbell. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-06-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

We are already 26 World Records down after the first half of a sensational news show. With incredible lifting from lifters like Shi Zhiyong, Deng Wei, Lu Xiaojun, and Sukanya Srisurat, it is vital that you stay up to date with it all!weightliftinghouse.com - books, barspatreon.com/weightliftinghouse

More in our continuing series of informal recordings from the World Championships in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. In addition to the day’s sessions and some training hall info, we discuss finally finding some good coffee AND we get some inside information from USAW’s Pedro Meloni on an upcoming rule change in the IWF regarding touching the barbell. […]

More updates from Ashgabat and the 2018 World Championships! We cover the day's sessions (which included the *amazing* men's 81A session), chat with the Japanese team's Hideyuki Nagao, get some inside info on what athletes have been doing in the training hall, and otherwise fill the time with our usual banter. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-05-mixdown-1.mp3 Also on iTunes!

More updates from Ashgabat and the 2018 World Championships! We cover the day’s sessions (which included the *amazing* men’s 81A session), chat with the Japanese team’s Hideyuki Nagao, get some inside info on what athletes have been doing in the training hall, and otherwise fill the time with our usual banter. Enjoy!   Also on […]

Day 2 of our special reports from Ashgabat and the 2018 World Championships! Gregor and I just brought the Zoom H1n recorder along with us and captured some impromptu conversations: a chat over breakfast, one during a midday break, and one at the end of the day. The environment can be quite noisy at times […]

Day 2 of our special reports from Ashgabat and the 2018 World Championships! Gregor and I just brought the Zoom H1n recorder along with us and captured some impromptu conversations: a chat over breakfast, one during a midday break, and one at the end of the day. The environment can be quite noisy at times (and therefore a bit tough to here us in spots) but it gives you a sense of the atmosphere at Worlds (we hope). Special guest appearances include: Mike Choi, Mark Cannella, Sean Waxman, JP Nicoletta, and Nat Arem of hookgrip. Enjoy! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/2018-worlds-day-02.mp3 Also on iTunes!

Since Gregor (of ATG fame) and I are currently in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan to help cover the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships he thought it would be fun to do a very informal podcast recording of us chatting at the end of the day. The idea was borne of the fact that this is generally what happens […]

Since Gregor (of ATG fame) and I are currently in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan to help cover the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships he thought it would be fun to do a very informal podcast recording of us chatting at the end of the day. The idea was borne of the fact that this is generally what happens at the end of the day for any competition: you sit around and talk about weightlifting, despite having just spent the past 10-12 hours watching/talking about weightlifting. Who doesn't want more weightlifting?! So enjoy, if you like, 40-ish minutes of us, unedited, chatting about weightlifting, the city, the venue, the training hall, and anything else that comes to mind. Hopefully there will be more to come! https://the2doctors.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/worlds-2018-d01.mp3 

Ian Wilson joins me for a special episode of the Weightlifting House News Show. We go through all of the weight classes in preparation for the 2018 World Championships, make a few predictions, digress into a few weightlifting stories, and map out everything that you need to know for the upcoming World Champs.weightliftinghouse.com - Book, Barbell, Why Be Normal?patreon.com/weightliftinghouse - support the show, get more podcasts!https://eu.virusintl.com/ - 10% off code weightliftinghouse

Ian Wilson joins me for a special episode of the Weightlifting House News Show. We go through all of the weight classes in preparation for the 2018 World Championships, make a few predictions, digress into a few weightlifting stories, and map out everything that you need to know for the upcoming World Champs.weightliftinghouse.com - Book, Barbell, Why Be Normal?patreon.com/weightliftinghouse - support the show, get more podcasts!https://eu.virusintl.com/ - 10% off code weightliftinghouse

The Official Entry List for the 2018 WWC is out! This week was packed with sensational lifts from all around the world, as well as news about Arley Mendez's injury, Werksan's business plans, and Team USA's pre-Worlds training camp!weightlifitnghouse.compatreon.com/weightliftinghouse

The Official Entry List for the 2018 WWC is out! This week was packed with sensational lifts from all around the world, as well as news about Arley Mendez's injury, Werksan's business plans, and Team USA's pre-Worlds training camp!weightlifitnghouse.compatreon.com/weightliftinghouse

We visit the hermit kingdom of Turkmenistan — one of the most reclusive and authoritarian nations in the world — and we see why some visitors describe its capital city of Ashgabat as a cross between Las Vegas and Pyongyang. Paranoia sets in as we get the feeling we’re constantly being watched. And we take a side trip to a giant fire pit in the desert that’s been burning for 40 years! Read more and see photos, as well as a video of the Darvaza Gas Crater on my website. Far From Home is a series, so it’s best to listen to all the episodes in order from the beginning for the story to make the most sense. Learn more about our trip and follow our adventures at farfromhomepodcast.org and teamdonundestan.com. And if you like what you hear, please do me a favor and leave a quick rating or review in iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts!

(ATR) Turkmenistan`s capital hosted the OCA this week...Next it will host the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.

(ATR) The Turkmenistan International Sports Media Forum has ended...Ashgabat considers a future Olympic bid.

Dans cet épisode : Nukus, The Desert of Forbidden Art, acheter des soms, manger des samsas (meilleurs que le deuxième pire hamburger du monde), Darvaza, l’hôtel Bezirgen à Ashgabat, Kounia-Ourguentch, la statue d’or de Saparmurat Niyazov, le livre du Ruhnama, Terry Fox et Nellie McClung dans le passeport canadien, la chanson d’Hawai 5-0, un gino turkmène, l’agent Mergen Mohammedov, le sosie de Tommy Lee Jones (avec un voile), parler des Flames de Calgary avec un douanier, Moynaq, manger du plov.

Lucy Ash revisits some of the significant stories covered in recent years and discovers what has changed since our initial reports. In some instances, there have been attempts to bring suspects to justice. In 2009 Crossing Continents uncovered disturbing evidence of alleged atrocities by the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War ten years ago. Since then a trial has opened in the capital Pristina and two former KLA leaders are being prosecuted for war crimes. The case began in March 2011, just a few months after Dick Marty, Special Rapporteur of the Council of Europe, released an explosive report claiming that the KLA summarily executed prisoners and harvested their kidneys to sell for organ transplants. Also in 2009 Crossing Continents looked at claims that Rwandans in France and Germany were controlling a deadly African militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reporter Peter Greste tracked down Callixte Mbarushimana to a Paris cafe. The elegantly dressed rebel Hutu leader flatly denied his group was responsible for attacks against civilians. But then, last October, Mbarushimana was arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court in the the Hague accused of 11 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including rape and murder. Bereaved families and victims in Congo have long complained about a climate of impunity - could that be about to change? There appears to be a disheartening lack of change in Turkmenistan. Lucy Ash travelled there undercover in 2005 to find out what ordinary life was like for the citizens of one of the world's most repressive dictatorships. Despite the gold and marble clad buildings in the capital Ashgabat, she found people deprived not only of all rights and freedoms, but also of basic necessities such as healthcare. At that time the country was ruled by a man who renamed the month of April after his mother, outlawed ballet and banned gold teeth. The current president, ex dentist Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is less flamboyant but his promised reforms have failed to materialise. Doctors Without Borders, the last international nongovernmental organisation operating in the country recently left because the government refused to allow a programme to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis. This special edition also catches up with an American policeman who created a cult following for his "Street Story" podcasts, vivid vignettes of his work for the Tulsa Police Department. And now that India has decriminalised homosexuality, what has happened to the Gay Prince of Rajpipla, once shunned by his family and his community?