Turkmen, Turkmenistan News

Wiping back the tears from his bloodshot eyes, Andrei struggles to understand why nobody seems to care that he has become a prisoner inside his own country's borders.

A Burren oil field seen at sunrise in Turkmenistan, Central Asia is shown in this undated company handout, released to the media in November 2007.

3. The event brought together diplomats from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Washington presumably hopes that the gas would be shipped via the long-planned 1,641-kilometer-long Trans-Caspian gas pipeline.

Turkmen and Israeli officials will meet on the sidelines of an OSCE ministerial summit to finalize the appointment of Israel's first full-time ambassador to the Central Asian state.

GlobalPost Moscow correspondent Miriam Elder recently traveled to Turkmenistan where she reported on the country's stability, below, as well as its new leader and the battle for its natural gas resources.

A leading German oil producer working on a Turkmen natural gas field says that energy reserves in Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea are an important supply of energy for the European Union, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reports.

Established in 2006, News Briefing Central Asia was conceived as a news analysis and comment service drawing on the expertise of a broad range of political observers across the region to contribute to greater public awareness of issues affecting the region.

President Dmitry Medvedev accentuated stepped-up Russian-Turkmen partnership in some areas of cooperation.

Established in 2006, News Briefing Central Asia was conceived as a news analysis and comment service drawing on the expertise of a broad range of political observers across the region to contribute to greater public awareness of issues affecting the region.

Bruce Pannier 11/28/09 A EurasiaNet Partner Post from RFE/RL Fears of swine flu led the Turkmen government to ban its citizens from participating in this year's hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia that every able-bodied Muslim is required to make during his or her lifetime if able to afford it.

On the outskirts of this impoverished town on Turkmenistan's Caspian Sea coast an endless mess of lights sparkle, towered over by three flames that burn around the clock - a colorful image of the natural gas that is this country's lifeblood.

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Date : Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:23:37 +0400 EUROPE AND TURKEY WILL ONLY HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME IF EU LOSES ACCESS TO CASPIAN GAS By Alexander Jackson APA www.cria-online.org Nov 24 2009 Azerbaijan For all the talk of Turkey moving away from Europe, the real story of a Western ally slowly turning East has been ignored.

Turkmenistan and Iran are exploring ways to increase security and energy cooperation.

Iran, which has the world's second-largest gas reserves, will be unable to raise output in the next three years and will need more gas from abroad to meet rising domestic demand.

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.

Turkmenistan may be energy rich, but the coffers of some municipal governments seem to be running dry.

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.

OJSC Zarubezhneft hopes by the end of the year to close a buy-sell transaction for 51% in the development of Block N21 in Turkmenistan from Itera by the end of the year, Zarubezhneft's head, Nikolai Brunich, told journalists.