When confronted with dispiriting population statistics, the president of Turkmenistan apparently took action: He ordered up a new census.
RFE/RL: Almost 2 million flee Turkmenistan in 10 years
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ride in a GAZ-21 Volga car during a meeting in Ashgabat on May 31, 2019.
