I love this country!

  
In connection with the topic of CXW post I want to recall another one Saparov - Akysh - is a famous singer and composer, who also stayed in Turkmenistan despite the fact he was officially unable to perform.
Akysh Saparov who is very popular in the country is no longer seen on TV screens as, according […]

Angry debates about British insidiousness stirred up in the Russian (and not only) press following the visit of Malcolm Wicks, the UK Energy Minister, to Turkmenistan have not yet settled…
Russian press has been rigorously pursuing the subject of Britain taking a revenge on “Gazprom”: Great Britain signed an Energy Agreement with Turkmenistan that can result in […]

According to The Independent
Russia plans to set up an organisation to monitor rights abuses in Europe and the US so that to turn the tables on Western critics of its human rights record. This organisation will have its base either in Brussels or Germany.
This is nothing but a shining example of the old good […]

Hardly recovered after turkmenistan.newerasia.net’s slashing review of his movie, Borat returns for his book launch.

“It give me great pleasurings to announce that Kazakhstan, after many years of secret research, we are now able to produce our own book!” Borat, aka Sacha Baron Cohen, announces the release of his new book, Touristic Guidings […]

Epigraph:
“Nobody likes oil corporations but eveybody would love to be hired by them…”
Roman Abramovich
  
“Chevron” - one of the largest oil companies in the world came up with this interesting statement:
The fact is, the vast majority of countries rely on the few energy-producing nations that won the geological lottery, blessing them with abundant hydrocarbons. And […]

Peter comments Ben’s post on neweurasia.net Homebase and highlights real economic and political roots of “The Great Battle for Central Asia Gas”.
Russophobic and Western-centric logic invariably skews analysis of this entire issue.
The grotesque caricature of Russia’s energy resource export policy exemplified by Josh’s post at Registan is typical. He maintains, with little by way […]

Turkmenistan is the second-biggest producer and exporter of natural gas in the CIS, after Russia. The vast majority of its supplies go to Russia’s Gazprom monopoly in order to be re-exported to Ukraine and lucrative markets abroad.
Gazprom supplies about one-fifth of gas consumed by the European Union.
This is Peter’s comment on Abdulgamid’s post:
Combine with this […]

Famous Turkmen singer Akysh Saparow is as popular as 20 years ago.
His contribution to national popculture is immeasurable, and he deserved to be called “Turkmen Frank Sinatra”.

Price of bread in the state grocery shops remains the same - 1,000 Turkmen Manat (or 0.04 US Dollars) for one loaf.  The quality of bakery products in these state shops however plummeted to a mark - “inedible”.
The quality of the wheat flour is to be blamed first and foremost. A few consequent bad […]