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uzbekistan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2009 (CPI) again and again showed us that two out of five countries of our region are in the list of 10 most corrupt countries in the world. To say ...
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
URL: http://opencrs.com/document/97-1055/ . Source: Library of Congress. This report examines the political, economic, and foreign policies undertaken by Turkmenistan™s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, who came to power in late 2006. The report discusses U.S. policy and assistance and provides basic facts and biographical information.
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
BY DEIRDRE TYNAN Prominent human rights advocates want the United States to consider invoking the Jackson-Vanik amendment against Turkmenistan over Ashgabat's refusal to let hundreds of young scholars leave the country to pursue their studies.
monochrom (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Among the dozens of businesses dispatching these trucks are two extremely well connected companies -- Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid -- that helped to swell the election coffers of...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Energy-rich Turkmenistan could become a top supplier to fill a Western-backed natural gas pipeline aimed at reducing Europe's dependency on Russian gas, a top executive on the project said Thursday.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The sitting Afghan president Hamid Karzai was sworn in as the president of the post-Taliban country for the second term on Thursday amid tight security. His oath taking ceremony, at Karzai's fortified Palace, was administered by the country's Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi. Foreign guests attending the inauguration ceremony included Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...
Arts Reader (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/ZE9K33/TRYXQ/E86XCH/08BOT/ Energy Thursday November 19 2009 FT.com - Energy New EDF chief voices dissent Henri Proglio has sparked a controversy just days before he takes over at France's state-controlled nuclear operator by claiming the...
Fuelishness! (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Untapped Energy Riches of Uzbekistan by John C.K. Daly While many Western investors remain fixated on somehow acquiring a slice of Turkmenistan’s natural gas riches, despite a recent scandal over the country’s actual reserves, there is another country further east whose energy and mineralogical reserves have been overlooked – Uzbekistan. While [...]
Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The leaders of Turkmenistan don't need to worry about human rights -- they have a trump card : "There is a risk that the Turkmen regime is learning to play to Europe's need for 'progress' on human rights by making small cosmetic reforms that could be reversed in the future," the Global Witness report said. Western nations' plans to tap into Central Asia's vast gas supplies hinge on the success...
Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Germany will not extend for the time being the deployment of AWACS surveillance aircraft to Afghanistan when the current mandate expires in mid-December, Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Tuesday. Guttenberg said the reason for the decision was a dispute about overflight rights over Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan from the NATO air base in Turkey. He said if the dispute is resolved the...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Every day, trucks carry diesel from Turkmenistan to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where some of the fuel is used in electricity power stations. Influential people are making a lot of money from the venture, which is financed by American tax dollars and is part of a fine-tuned system of nepotism and corruption that works a treat. It is not about to change. - Pratap Chatterjee (Nov 18, '09)
turkmenistan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The H5N1 virus is a far more dangerous variant of the H1N1 "swine flu". Yet, somehow, pigs have caused more terror in the citizens of Turkmenistan than chickens -- a terror seemingly beyond the control of one of the world's most repressive regimes. neweurasia's Annasoltan explores why this may -- or may not -- be the case.
From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By Pratap Chatterjee Kabul, Afghanistan — Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Among the dozens of businesses dispatching these trucks are two extremely well connected companies — Ghazanfar and [...]
Registan.net (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The story is a bit old, but that doesn’t make it any less interesting. In Turkmenistan, the government is forbidding what amount to a whole class of college students from studying abroad in some capacity. The EurasiaNet article states that students looking to study elsewhere in the Former Soviet Union, rather than just anywhere in [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Eritrea ranks at the very bottom of Reporters without Borders index of press freedom for 2009, released in October (see http://www.rsf.org/en-classement1003-2009.html), accompanied in the bottom five by North Korea, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Burma.
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