http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/04/03/let-them-eat-spaghetti/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 5 Dec 2008 03:50:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/04/03/let-them-eat-spaghetti/#comment-21117 Andrew Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:05:03 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/04/03/let-them-eat-spaghetti/#comment-21117 I'm struck by the descriptions of the emerging underground economu in Turkmenistan. Seems almost nostalgic, in a way, like the underground markets of late Brezhnev. Finding ways to deal with, and outwit, idiotic bureucracies and dim leaders is no new art, it seems to me, in Turkmenistan and Central Asia. I’m struck by the descriptions of the emerging underground economu in Turkmenistan. Seems almost nostalgic, in a way, like the underground markets of late Brezhnev. Finding ways to deal with, and outwit, idiotic bureucracies and dim leaders is no new art, it seems to me, in Turkmenistan and Central Asia.

]]> http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/04/03/let-them-eat-spaghetti/#comment-21069 The Conjecturer » News Brief, There There Edition Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:22:54 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/04/03/let-them-eat-spaghetti/#comment-21069 [...] Turkmenistan lives up to its reputation as the North Korea of Central Asia. Even beyond starving, there is the closed political system to [...] […] Turkmenistan lives up to its reputation as the North Korea of Central Asia. Even beyond starving, there is the closed political system to […]

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