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International Business Times
International Business Times
World
Anton LOMOV

Turkmenistan Faces 'Parallel Reality' Media Landscape

Turkmenistan is constantly stepping up measures to prevent outside information from seeping in (Credit: AFP)

"We know about Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. But we can't access them -- everything here is blocked," said Byashim Ishanguliyev, a fruit seller in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat.

To keep information from the outside world hidden from its citizens, Turkmenistan, one of the world's most closed and isolated countries, exercises almost total control over the internet.

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