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The closest thing to hell on Earth lies in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert ... and natural resources during the Soviet Union was kept secret, meaning many official documents were inaccessible ...

Turkey imports gas via pipelines from Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran. Last year, Turkmenistan signed a contract with Iran for 10 billion cubic meters (353 billion cubic feet) of natural gas to be shipped ...

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Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union had no lack of dissent or hopelessness ... Evacuated to Ashkabad in the Soviet republic of Turkmenistan, he became known as a talented poet, but by the ...

A Soviet citizen is defined as a person born in one of the 15 states which seceded from the Soviet Union during its dissolution in December 1991. Persons born in one of these 15 states after 1991 are ...

Although Islam has been a part of Turkmen culture for centuries, public practice of Islam was largely suppressed during the Soviet Union and in the early independence era, too. Ashgabat needs to ...

A "gradualist," less centralized approach that was less dependent on a high-tech solution was then successfully adopted, first by the Kyrgyz Republic and Turkmenistan and, soon afterward, by the other ...

This is the seventh Olympic Games that Turkmenistan has competed in as its own independent nation. Prior to 1996, Turkmen athletes competed on teams with the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the ...

Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan and Iran ... Turkmen gas will be crucial to the European Union-backed Nabucco pipeline project. A dispute last year with Moscow over a ...