ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan – Wearing a blue caftan and shaggy sheepskin hat, Turkmenistan's president looked every part the accomplished horse-riding tribesman as he effortlessly cantered on his ...

MOSCOW – Seeing the president slam face-first into the ground after falling from a speeding horse would be a shock to any nation. In authoritarian Turkmenistan, many residents didn't even get ...

In Turkmenistan, where horse-riding is an important part of culture, a gold-plated monument to Berdymukhamedov's horse-riding skills may well be an important relic in the future.

Akhal-Teke are venerated with almost religious fervor in Turkmenistan and the state propaganda machine has relentlessly utilized the breed in its identity- and nation-engineering exercises. Viewed in ...

The Washington Post says that in 2012, Turkmen Parliament bestowed the title of "national horse-breeder of Turkmenistan" upon Berdymukhamedov. The Guardian's Shaun Walker notes that ironically, ...

Turkmenistan has marked its national Horse Day, an annual holiday celebrated with particular enthusiasm by authoritarian President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov.

Turkmenistan's one-horse race. Eight candidates are running for president, each with the same message: vote for the incumbent. Shaun Walker reports from a country where democracy is still a dream ...

Turkmenistan opened a new, ... Only electric vehicles are allowed in the city, which features monuments dedicated to a horse of the Turkmen Akhal Teke breed and to Berdymukhamedov himself, ...

Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov smiles as he rides a horse with a dove on his shoulder in the capital Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on Sunday, April 24.

After a decade-long hiatus, Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov last week convened the Halk Maslahaty, or People’s Council. In his speech delivered on September 26, he made no mention ...