Turkmenistan News

Saturday, 28 June 2008, 7:45 am Press Release: US State Department Turkmenistan: Detention and Abuse of Journalist We are deeply troubled by the June 20 detention and physical abuse by Turkmen authorities of ...

RFE/RL has learned that Sazak Durdymuradov, a contributor to its Turkmen Service, is being held at an infamous psychiatric clinic in eastern Turkmenistan, one week after his arrest and reported beating and ...

U.S.-backed broadcaster Radio-Free Europe/Radio Liberty says Turkmen security forces have tortured one of its journalists.

A senior Russian general says Russia will conduct military exercises in the Arctic to uphold the country's claim to the region's vast natural resources.

Turkmenistan has signed a $70 million contract with Russia to buy six Smerch multi launch rocket systems , a Russian business daily said on Tuesday.

Russia's Mobile TeleSystems has become the first company, foreign or domestic, to offer wireless Internet connection in Turkmenistan -- a country dubbed "one of the world's Internet enemies" by a top media ...

He said the voyage starts in Astrakhan and in seven days the tourists will be able to visit Daghestan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

While the Turkmen authorities have started talking about creating renewable energy, there is little prospect this will come about in the near future since the country lacks the research facilities, staff and ...

From correspondents in Tamil Nadu, India, 09:30 PM IST The row between the Karunanidhi family and their close relatives the Marans over Tamil Nadu's lucrative cable television services market took a new turn ...

Azhagiri, who has launched a new cable distribution network, has ordered cable operators to block Sun Group's channels Chennai, June 10: The battle between the Marans and Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's family ...

In St. Petersburg President Victor Yushchenko held a meeting with the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, according to the President`s press-office. At the meeting the two Presidents discussed ...

Russia and Turkmenistan could complete talks on a new price for next year's imports of Turkmen gas by July, the deputy chairman of the board of Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom said Saturday.

He said "the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzirum gas pipeline will be filled completely. If we discover fields at 5 structures-Umid, Babek, Nakhchivan, Absheron and Zafar-Mashal-it will mean additional 1.4 trillion cubic ...

Turkmenistan has begun allowing private citizens to connect to the Internet in the latest sign the reclusive Central Asian nation is opening up to the world.

India's decision to join the Turkmenistan pipeline project which is more hazardous than the Iranian channel is puzzling.

The Halk Maslahaty has anywhere between 2,500 and 3,000 "members" Turkmenistan is planning rare amendments to its constitution that signal the leadership's desire to present at least a veneer of change in ...

Just two years ago, the country was a reclusive place that few foreigners were allowed to visit, with UN-recognized status as a "neutral" nation.

"We consider the maximum diversification of oil and gas export and transit routes and we already have success in this area," Aliyev told summit participants, Ukrainian news agencies reported.

Turkmenistan and the European Union have agreed to join efforts in developing the resource-rich Central Asian nation's energy sector, state media reported Tuesday.

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