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Turkmenistan: Germany, Austria Embrace Realpolitik in Their Dealings with Ashgabat

The global economic slowdown appears to be giving Turkmenistan’s leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, a boost. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive This dynamic was on full display during Berdymukhamedov’s recent tour...

Turkmenistan - Why can't believers freely enter, leave or remain?

FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one's belief or religion The right to join together and express one's belief...

Turkmenistan: Berdymukhamedov Does Berlin

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov on November 17 wrapped up his first visit to Germany. Talks focused on ways to advance Turkmen-European Union cooperation, state-owned Altyn Asyr TV reported. ... Category: Asia

Turkmen leader offered greater cooperation in Berlin

Berlin - The authoritarian ruler of Turkmenistan met Friday in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel amid keen Western interest in the former Soviet republic's rich oil and gas deposits. Cooperation between our two countries is...

Germany and Austria: Press Turkmenistan on Rights

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York, November 13, 2008) – Germany and Austria should use meetings with the president of Turkmenistan to press for human rights reforms, Human Rights Watch said today in letters to the German and...

Turkmen Regeneration Project Sparks New Wave of Demolitions

Turkmen Regeneration Project Sparks New Wave of Demolitions Thursday , 13 November 2008Residents evicted from their homes to make way for urban modernisation say they have nowhere else to live. By IWPR staff in Central Asia...

EU preparing to upgrade Turkmenistan relations

PHILIPPA RUNNER Today @ 17:37 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU institutions are preparing to normalise relations with Turkmenistan, laying aside human rights benchmarks in a bureaucratic process marked by apathy and mistrust. The...

Lots of Turkmen gas, yes, but doubts about how much West can benefit

By Nicholas Watson in Prague bne The true extent of Turkmenistan's gas reserves, long considered a state secret by the former Soviet's state's authoritarian regime, have become a little clearer after UK-based international...

Turkmens accord highest regards to Imam Reza (AS)

The Turkmens accord the highest regards to Imam Reza (AS), The Eighth Imam of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) Infallible Household, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov said on Monday. Berdymuhammedov made the remarks in an...

Chinese Firm May Build Iran's Rail Link

Iran has threatened to call off talks with Ashok Leyland Project Services Ltd and sign a contract with a Chinese firm to build a rail link in that country due to differences with the Indian infrastructure company over execution...

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