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Few knew how ill Lyuba Garbuzova was — that’s just how the leader of Turkmenistan’s tiny and oppressed Jewish minority wanted it. Garbuzova died July 25 of heart failure during surgery to remove a cancerous tumor. She was 46. “She was much loved and respected. She put 100 percent into her work,” said close friend […]

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Lyuba Garbuzova, a 46-year-old grandmother of two, was arrested late last year and detained by authorities in Uzbekistan on charges of smuggling cash across the border into this Central Asian republic. The money, provided by foreign Jews, represented six months worth of food and medical donations intended to care for the 1,200 people in Turkmenistan’s […]

Last year, a member of the Jewish community in this city finally received home Internet service for the first time. Considering that only about 7 percent of Turkmenistan’s 5 million residents have Internet access, the woman and her teenage daughter were thrilled. Then came a visit by the state intelligence services — still referred to […]

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