Turkmen, Uzbekistan News

Turkmenistan will hold a presidential election 12 February. Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who has been president since the country's last president-for-life died in office in December 2006, will win.

Editor's note: Is Turkmenistan's upcoming presidential election really just a totalitarian ploy for false legitimacy, or is it something much more pitiful? neweurasia's Annasoltan gives her thoughts.

Editor's note: Turkmenistan's upcoming presidential poll is truly a strange creature.

India and Pakistan Wednesday moved closer to a final decision on the fee to be paid for transporting natural gas from Turkmenistan via a pipeline that will pass through Afghanistan.

Speaking last September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary Hillary Clinton articulated the U.S. government's vision of a "New Silk Road" running through Afghanistan.