All Turkmenbashi, All the Time The average citizen of Turkmenistan may barely be earning enough to survive, but they’ve got plenty of swell monuments celebrating President-for-Life Saparmurad ...

Maciula offers some notes on the road in Turkmenistan, heading from Turkmenbashi town towards the north-west and Avaza – the most popular Turkmen seaside resort. Global Voices stands out as one of the ...

TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan -- Locals in Turkmenistan’s western Balkan region on the Caspian Sea are used to a temporary “abundance of food” during the summer vacation season, which usually ...

Collecting on Turkmenbashi’s pledges, 1998. ... His mad scheme to remake the capital accelerated, and the sleepy, charming town of Soviet years gave way to a soul-deadening grid of white marble ...

Turkmenistan gas revenues fell to a critical level in 1998, convincing Turkmenbashi to reinvent "positive neutrality" so that it meant striking a new arrangement with Russia. In 2003, Niyazov shifted ...

Turkmenistan is proceeding with construction of new units at its Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries (TCOR), which includes it Turkmenbashi and Seydi refineries. Westport Trading Europe Ltd ...

In New York, in the heart of the United States, a not very well known musical group called Foreign Accent issued its first CD called Pardon, My French. In the very diverse repertoire of the band’s CD ...

Turkmenistan is one of the keystones of Central Asian geopolitics, third in importance after Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The post-Turkmenbashi transition can be used by the United States (and the ...