Long form newsletter and podcast covering underreported stories from Central Asia by journalist and author Agnieszka Pikulicka
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Episode 52: What does it take to leave Turkmenistan?
Ashgabad, 2015 (PHOTO/Agnieszka Pikulicka)
Hi all,
Turkmenistan is one of the world’s most isolated countries, and getting in and out is a real challenge. Nevertheless, Turkmen diaspora communities do exist abroad. Turkmens work and study...
Episode 51: What does “Suzani feminism” tell us about female agency?
A needlework artist at the Registan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (PHOTO/David Stanley)
Hi all,
Studying Central Asian women can be tricky. For decades, most research has been conducted by foreigners, very often men, who viewed female agency t...
Episode 50: Ilkhom - The boldest theatre in Central Asia
“The Cabal of Hypocrites” (2025) directed by Boris Gafurov (PHOTO/Anna Shishkina)
Hi all,
Over the past year, Turan Tales has produced seven immersive audio documentaries. They earned us two nominations for the Publishers Podcast Awards,...
Episode 49: The Great Game that never was
Bukharan guests at the coronation of Emperor Nicolas II, May 1896 (PHOTO/public domain)
Hi all,
In his famous 1946 essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell proposed six rules for clear writing to combat the decline of langua...
Episode 48: What Soviet Kazakhstan had in store for Poles deported by Stalin - and where they are now
A Catholic Mass in the Polish church in Oziornoye, May 2026 (PHOTO/Agnieszka Pikulicka)
Hi all,
In late June, my guest today and I travelled to Oziornoye, a village in northern Kazakhstan. It was a special occasion: the 90th anniversary o...
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Journalist focusing on Eastern Europe & Central Asia | Founder of Turan Tales | Author of "Nowy Uzbekistan" (in Polish) | Words: Reuters, AJE, AP, the Guardian, FP
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