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To follow up on our previous post about Turkmenistan government's official website, Altyn Asyr (The Golden Age), decision to allow comments on its website. On October 12, just two days after initiating the new feature, it vanished from the Turkmen, Russian, and English versions of the website- reports RFE/RL. There was no explanation on the website about the removal of the responses by readers. Some 15 comments had been posted to the site before the feature disappeared. Several of the comments offered mild criticism of former President Saparmurat Niyazov and one of them called on President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov to release all political prisoners held in Turkmen prisons. Source RFE/RL 10/15/2007. Link to article: http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/10/34CFBC93-E10B-4F42-832E-5D2311ECF0B4.html Comment: I observe that the actual layout of the site was also changed. Instead of the 'Navigation of the site' block, which among other features included the comment component, there is a weather forecast from Turkemengidromet. Other features from the block are repositioned on the main page. The news archive is now not available. However, it seems that the site is under modification and we might expect more changes.