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Financial Express
February 17, 2018
Berdymukhamedov, apparently woke up one morning and decided to ban all black cars in the capital, because they were 'bad luck'. Leaving hundreds of residents confused and now transport-less in the capital city of Ashgabat. Luckily, the price they will have to pay to get their car back isn't off the charts.
Trend News Agency
February 16, 2018
Bouygues has been working in Turkmenistan for a long time. The French concern has already realized a series of projects in the country. Presidential quarter, administrative center in the business part of the city, a university campus, number of hotels and factories are among implemented projects.
AzerNews
February 14, 2018
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a meeting with the chairman of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, Rifat ... The TAPI pipeline will run from Galkynysh – the largest gas field in Turkmenistan – through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar, and finally reachÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
February 14, 2018
Installation, production of high-octane A-98 grade petroleum (Euro-5), has been successfully implemented at the oil refinery in Seydi city in eastern Turkmenistan, local newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan reported. Production is mainly exported to neighboring Afghanistan. This became possible after theÃÂ ...
AzerNews
February 14, 2018
A new international airport was built in Turkmenabat city, the administrative center of the Lebap region of Turkmenistan, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported. The airport built by the local company "Gundogdy" is located 13 kilometers from the city in close proximity to the Ashgabat-TurkmenabatÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 13, 2018
The lack of flour has caused prices for bread and other goods in Turkmenistan to spike. ... In Turkmenabat, a 50-kilogram sack of flour costs between $23 and $29, while in the Lebap Province towns of Kerkichi and Magdanly, the same amount of the staple costs ... In the city of Kerki, a sack of flour costs $34.
OilPrice.com
February 4, 2018
Work has resumed in Tajikistan on construction work on a natural gas pipeline running from Turkmenistan to China. ... The 400-kilometer section will carry gas onward from Uzbekistan through an area by the Tajik town of Hisor, wind down to Vahdat, just outside the capital, and then run along a high valleyÃÂ ...
EurasiaNet
January 31, 2018
The 400-kilometer section will carry gas onward from Uzbekistan through an area by the Tajik town of Hisor, wind down to Vahdat, just outside the capital, and then run along a high valley floor toward the Kyrgyz border near the town of Jirgatol. This pipeline has a designed capacity of 25-30 billion cubicÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
January 31, 2018
Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi city hosted a Turkmen-Azerbaijani working meeting at the level of government delegations of the two countries on the issues of partnership in key spheres on Jan. 31, Turkmenistan State News Agency reported. It was emphasized that Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have aÃÂ ...
Observer
January 2, 2018
Living in Abu Dhabi helped, as the city's central location made it easy for him to spend weekends away, while connections from work and school helped connect him to the “beautiful” places in every country. While visiting Tanzania, Lavallo “fell in love” with the village of Mangula, where he owns a smallÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
January 1, 2018
In fact, anyone passing through any of the major cities and towns of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan would become familiar .... He was a prisoner in Bukhara in 1917 and endured torture during his confinement, until he was liberated when Red Army troops seized the city.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 2017
In fact, anyone passing through any of the major cities and towns of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan would become familiar ... in Dushanbe's Rudaki Park, a Rudaki district in western Tajikistan, and another statue of Rudaki in Tajikistan's ancient northern city of Istaravshan.
AzerNews
December 31, 2017
A freight container train will be sent from China's Yinchuan city Dec. 29 along the route through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to Iran, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message Dec. 29. On Dec. 30, another freight container train will be sent along the same route from the north-western Chinese city ofÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
December 30, 2017
The pipeline is scheduled to run along the Kandahar-Herat Highway in western Afghanistan, and further through the cities of Quetta and Multan in Pakistan. The pipeline's route will end in the Indian city of Fazilka. Construction of the Turkmen section of the TAPI gas pipeline began in December 2015.
Trend News Agency
December 24, 2017
The foundation laying ceremony of the Afghan section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline is planned to be held in the ... The TAPI pipeline will run from Galkynysh – the largest gas field in Turkmenistan – through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar, and finally reach theÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 21, 2017
The resolution "calls upon all States to refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem". ... Republic of Moldova, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Zambia.
Trend News Agency
December 31, 1999
For the election of members of the district and city councils, a total of 1,260 electoral districts (20 in each district and city) have been created in Turkmenistan. Political parties, public organizations, as well as initiative groups of citizens organize meetings to nominate their representatives, mainly specialists ofÃÂ ...
Eurasia Daily
December 31, 1999
Clashes. People are being killed there. There is no army as such in Turkmenistan any longer. Officers prefer dismissal to service on the border. How one can give orders to the army when…My nephew serves in Mary town. His commander lets them go out to eat somewhere. They have no food for soldiers.
Express.co.uk
December 23, 2017
And Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa and is also part of Belt and Road agreed to lease one of its military bases to Beijing for $20million in 2016. This became the first overseas post for China's armed forces. China has also received a natural gas pipeline in Turkmenistan due to the initiative. Kenya is currentlyÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
December 22, 2017
The construction of a plant for the industrial processing of natural gas to ammonia and urea will be completed soon in the Caspian town of Garabogaz (Turkmenistan), the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported Dec. 21. The urea plant under construction is planned to be commissioned in June 2018.
BBC News
December 22, 2017
The resolution "calls upon all States to refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Jerusalem". ... Republic of Moldova, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Zambia.
AzerNews
December 10, 2017
Turkmenistan, having big mineral reserves, can attract any investor, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a government meeting, ... Moreover, a new port infrastructure will be built in Garabogaz city of Turkmenistan's Balkan province and chemical products are planned to be exported.
BarBend (blog)
November 27, 2017
Last month, the 2018 IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships moved from North Korea to Uzbekistan, and even this year's World Championships were originally slated to be held in Penang, Malaysia, until the city “encountered difficulties and resigned from (organizing) the event.” The IWF says that ...
EurasiaNet
November 24, 2017
Turkmenistan reportedly controls the world's fourth largest reserves of gas, and Chinese officials want to secure larger volumes of these imports. ... Silk Road high-speed railway connecting the western city of Urumqi in China with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and terminating in TehranÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
November 21, 2017
“The latest harassment and threats against people who criticize the government highlight Turkmenistan's longstanding efforts to eradicate dissent,” said ... access the internet, and the representatives of the Ashgabat City Telephone Network told Kucherenko that her internet access would not be restored.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 17, 2017
Turkmen authorities have ordered public-sector workers to enroll their children in state kindergartens that were left almost empty after a fee increase. ... instead, according to two employees at the education department and the Dashoguz city administration who spoke to RFE/RL on condition of anonymity.
The Daily World
November 17, 2017
Allan Mustard, the U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan since 2014, has spent more than 30 years living and working as an agricultural counselor and ... On one occasion he had to find new housing for a center for American cultural information and English language learning in one of Turkmenistan's cities.
EurasiaNet
November 10, 2017
A view of the opening ceremony of the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.The 10-day tournament cost .... My eleventh-floor suite in one of the 20 high-rises in the Village had two beds, multiple furnishings, a desk and storage, and a decent bathroom. I'd read reports about ...
AzerNews
November 9, 2017
Providing Turkmenistan with efficient mineral fertilizers is of great importance for increasing the yield of cultivated crops to ensure the country's abundance ... In particular, the commissioning of a carbamide plant under construction in Garabogaz city (Balkan district, Turkmenistan) is scheduled for June 2018, ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 6, 2017
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned an attack on the family home of an exiled Turkmen human rights activist in the Central Asian nation's northern city of Dashoguz, where his 76-year-old mother lives alone. In a statement on November 6, HRW urged Turkmen officials to publicly condemn and ...
Trend News Agency
November 4, 2017
Turkmenistan is turning into a country of major transport and ... airports in the cities of Dashoguz and Turkmenabat are at the final stage, ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
November 2, 2017
They actually lived in these villages for eight months at a time, ... We would arrange to meet in some big city or town and immediately leave for the village. ... Kyrgyz, Turkmen, and other Uzbeks working with me that story.
The Guardian
October 27, 2017
Turkmenistan dictator opens golf course – and quickly hits 'hole in one' ... Jack Nicklaus to build a golf course outside the capital city, Ashgabat.
Express.co.uk
October 27, 2017
TODAY is Independence Day in Turkmenistan, celebrating their ... The capital of Turkmenistan is Ashgabat, which means “City of Love” or “City ...
FRANCE 24
October 20, 2017
As Turkmenistan hosted the Asian Games in the capital Ashgabat, our ... for our "safety", we crisscrossed Ashgabat, known as the "white city", ...
The Guardian
October 20, 2017
A puppy for Putin – but for dogs in Turkmenistan it's open slaughter .... from the capital city, Ashgabat, on grounds of their “unappealing odour”.
The Guardian
October 17, 2017
Insta-stans: the cities of post-Soviet Central Asia captured on Instagram ... A shot of Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, from Hassan Kurbanbaev's ... Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, a quarter of a century .... @atemirbekov #lines #city #buildings #streetart #town #design #cityview ...
The Guardian
October 16, 2017
The capital of Turkmenistan is jokingly referred to as the 'city of the dead'. Photograph: Giles Clarke/Getty Images. Cities · Secret Stans ... When I was child, Ashgabat was known as the “garden city”. It drowned in .... at 10% of capacity. To build this new airport, a whole village, Choganly, was demolished.
The Guardian
October 15, 2017
The cities – as with everything else in modern-day Central Asia – have ... to Astana, previously a small, nondescript town more than 600 miles to the north-west. .... Without the oil resources of Kazakhstan or Turkmenistan, the ...
Trend News Agency
December 31, 1999
OSCE organizes seminar on relief mechanisms for natural disasters in Turkmenistan ... The event also featured simulation exercises in a virtual city, which provided participants with an opportunity to enhance their skills in risk assessment, the development of preparedness and response measures as wellÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
December 31, 1999
Construction project of a new railway line from the Turkmen station Serhetabat to the Afghan city of Torghundi was launched in late November on the basis of a memorandum of understanding signed by the railway authorities of the two countries. Reportedly, the fundamental modernization of the railwayÃÂ ...
JOC.com
December 31, 1999
The opening of the Turkmenbashi seaport in Turkmenistan gives shippers interested in using China-Europe rail one more routing option, although it faces ... shipping for any leg of its journey, as cargo links up to the trans-Siberian Railway in the Russian border town of Orenburg for shipment into Europe.
Trend News Agency
December 31, 1999
It is assumed that the railway lines and motorways will connect the city of Turgundy in the Afghan province of Herat with Ashgabat, then with the port of Turkmenbashi on the shore of the Caspian Sea. Further, the corridor will continue through the Caspian Sea to Baku, and then through Tbilisi to Ankara and ...
Financial Tribune
October 1, 2017
The train left Yinchuan City of northwest China's Ningxia Hui ... It covered 10,399 km, passing through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, to reach the border ... significantly reducing the duration of a trip between the two cities.
Kansas City Star
September 29, 2017
Russian mobile communications provider MTS says it has suspended operations in the Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan after a stateÃÂ ...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
September 28, 2017
Some Winners, Many Losers, After Turkmenistan Hosts Asian Games ... In defiance of expectations, or logic, Turkmenistan's athletes, who had never won a medal ... so that a few thousand foreigners making a brief visit to the city for the games wouldn't have to ... The name means "Village Voice" in Uzbek.
Forum 18
September 27, 2017
The Committee reminded Turkmenistan that it has repeatedly called on the ... around the eastern city of Turkmenabad who had participated in an informal ... the authorities returned his body to relatives in their home village ofÃÂ ...
Bloody Elbow
September 20, 2017
Tyrant Games: How Turkmenistan is using the 2017 Asian Indoor ... The event – held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan's capital city – commenced on September 17 and will ... a medical center, and an Athletes' Village equipped with restaurants ... Viewed as an opportunity for isolated Turkmenistan to “reveal itselfÃÂ ...
Financial Tribune
September 19, 2017
Referring to a pipeline that connects the northern city of Sari in ... around 7 million liters of Turkmen-origin crude oil at the port of Neka. Oil andÃÂ ...
Trend News Agency
September 19, 2017
Over the past years, Turkmenistan and Japan have established a solid ... built in the Turkmen city of Mary in 2014, a sulfuric acid plant put intoÃÂ ...
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