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Boat drivers from former Soviet republics often have very little experience and no idea what they are doing is illegal, say NGOsPeople smugglers are increasingly recruiting people from former Soviet republics in central Asia to pilot boats carrying mig…
Read MoreLeaks of potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, say experts, and would rapidly reduce global heatingMethane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK,…
Read MoreSerdar Berdymukhamedov won Saturday’s ballot, officials said, but with lower victory margin than his fatherThe son of Turkmenistan’s autocrat leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has won a decisive victory in the presidential election, officials have sa…
Read MorePresident Berdymukhamedov orders experts to find way to put out five-decade-old blaze Karakum desertTurkmenistan’s strongman leader has ordered experts to find a way to finally extinguish a massive five-decade-old fire in a giant natural gas crater, la…
Read MoreThe country’s president has also erected a gold statue and dedicated an ode to the Alabai dog breedTurkmenistan marked a new holiday on Sunday dedicated to its national – and very large – Alabai dog breed, to which its longtime leader has already erect…
Read MoreTurkmenistan’s leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, solemnly inaugurated a monument for his favourite breed of dog, the nationally revered alabai.The gold-leaf six-metre statue of the central Asian shepherd dog is the centrepiece of a busy roundabout in…
Read MoreTribute to alabai sheepdog towers above roundabout in capital of AshgabatTurkmenistan’s longtime president has unveiled a huge gilded statue of a dog on a busy roundabout in the capital.Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has also written an ode to the local al…
Read MoreCitizens of gas-rich, isolated state subject to food shortages and human rights abusesInvestors and governments should stop cosying up to gas-rich Turkmenistan, according to a new report that describes the central Asian hermit state as “a country teete…
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