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Turkmenistan Guarantees Gas Supply to Russia Through 2025 (Net News Publisher)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:06:29 GMT

... via Russia. According to Sergey Prikhodko, an aide to the Russian President, both Russia and Turkmenistan have no issues to resolve regarding trading gas at rates determined by the market. Right now, the Russian national gas monopoly, Gasprom, pays 150 US dollars per 1000 cubic meters of Turkmen gas, compared to 100 dollars it paid last year. Turkmenistan sells most of its gas, nearly...

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Russian, Turkmen presidents open Kamaz centre in Turkmenistan (Russia News Net)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:43:40 GMT

... company Kamaz making trucks, buses and other vehicles has been working rather long and actively in Turkmenistan. A branch of the company operates here beginning May 2006. More than a thousand of units of various Kamaz vehicles were sold on the Turkmen market over the work period. A temporary centre was opened in Ashgabat for guarantee and post-guarantee service, where specialists sent from...

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Russia to boost Turkmenistan imports (Russia News Net)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:05:51 GMT

ASHKABAD: Russia is to boost the volume of gas it imports from key producer Turkmenistan, the chief executive of gas giant Gazprom said yesterday, amid growing competition for the ex-Soviet country's ...

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Russia, Turkmenistan presidents issue common statement (Russia News Net)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:54:07 GMT

ASHGABAT, July 4 (Itar-Tass) - Presidents of Russia and Turkmenistan Dmitry Medvedev and Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov issued a common statement. This document dwells on the major results of the Friday n...

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Turkmen leader confirms commitments on gas supplies to Russia (Russia News Net)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:54:08 GMT

ASHGABAT, July 4 (RIA Novosti) - Turkmenistan's president told his Russian counterpart on Friday that his country will honor the commitments it has made on natural gas supplies to Russia up to 2025. G...

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Medvedev visit to focus on gas supplies (OTB News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:27:00 GMT

The Russian president’s trip to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, signals Moscow’s determination to dominate energy resources from the Caspian Sea region

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Medvedev visit to focus on gas supplies (Financial Time)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:32:00 GMT

The Russian president's trip to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, signals Moscow's determination to dominate energy resources from the Caspian Sea region

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Turkmenistan - Radio Free Europe contributor forcibly confined in psychiatric hospital - 1.07.2008 (Reporters sans frontières)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:42:14 GMT

“We call on the Turkmen authorities to free Durdymuradov at once,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Punitive hospitalisation and torture are totally unacceptable. In the light of these events, we are all the more shocked that, after holding talks with Turkmenistan about human rights, the European Union said it was optimistic about the way the situation was evolving.”

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Turkmenistan: Another Dissident Jailed (Global Voices Online)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:42:16 GMT

Peter reports on a spate of human rights infringements in Turkmenistan, just as an EU delegation arrives in Ashgabat to discuss the issue.

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Uzbekistan to build pipeline to pump Turkmen gas to China (Russia News Net)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:23:39 GMT

BEIJING, July 2 (RIA Novosti) - Uzbekistan has started building a pipeline for natural gas supplies from Turkmenistan to China, the Chinese news website Sina reported on Wednesday. A joint Chinese-Uzb...

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Afghanistan troop deaths outnumber those in Iraq! (The Chosen Man)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:10:00 GMT

Read this Not a surprise!-This is going to get out of hand,more and more of our troops will be killed or wounded needlessly so that an OIL and GAS pipeline can be built for the USA from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan into the Arabian Sea!How much of the proceeds of that grubby little deal do you think the UK will see?-Bugger all!

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Energy Ties Take Medvedev Eastward (Moscow Times)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller held talks with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in Ashgabat on Tuesday, focusing attention firmly on energy ties ahead of President Dmitry Medvedev’s trip to the region later this week.

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Gazprom and Turkmenistan in talks on natural gas (International Herald Tribune)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:29:25 GMT

Alexei Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled energy company, held talks Tuesday with President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan on energy agreements in advance of a visit to the region this week by President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia.

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July returns to Turkmenistan as country renames the calendar (Russia News Net)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:10:25 GMT

ASHGABAT, July 1 (RIA Novosti) - Turkmenistan reintroduced the Gregorian calendar on Tuesday for days of the week and months of the year, abolishing the system of the country's former eccentric leader...

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Deserts, deserts, deserts of Turkmenistan - Konye-Urgenche, Turkmenistan (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:07:42 GMT

Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan by truck, followed by three weeks of taking it easy on Turkish coast and possibly Cyprus

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There must be a good knock-knock joke in this story somewhere... (Information Nation)

noreply@blogger.com (captnkurt) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:07:00 GMT

The small town of Darvaz is located in Uzbekistan (most of the internet sources say Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan, but Google Earth shows it to be in Tajikistan -- whatever...). About the only thing of interest there is what the locals call "The Door To Hell". Like Darvaz's true location, the history of The Door To Hell is a little sketchy as well. According to the story, geologists were drilling...

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Turkmenistan plans to start exporting natural gas to China in 2009, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said on Friday. (Russia News Net)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:37:09 GMT

ASHGABAT, June 27 (RIA Novosti) - Turkmenistan plans to start exporting natural gas to China in 2009, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said on Friday. He said the diversification of ene...

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Press group condemns Turkmenistan over reporter (Alertnet)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:42:56 GMT

Source: Reuters ALMATY, June 27 (Reuters) - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned Turkmenistan's authorities on Friday for detaining a reporter working for a U.S.-backed radio station and appealed for his ...

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Turkmenistan - Radio Free Europe contributor arrested and tortured while government promises EU to improve human rights - 26.06.2008 (Reporters sans frontières)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:52:42 GMT

Reporters Without Borders “strongly condemns” the action of the Turkmen police in arresting and torturing Sazak Durdymuradov in an attempt to get him to sign a pledge to stop working for US-funded Radio Free Europe ( RFE ).

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Turkmens Vow Democratic Change (Moscow Times)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:00:00 GMT

Turkmenistan, criticized by human rights groups for its slow pace of reform, has promised a European Union delegation that it will bring about more democratic change, state media reported Wednesday.

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