Gas pipeline from Turkmenistan unlike the pre-Caspian project (see my previous post) is becoming reality. Here is a bunch of facts to prove it.
The first frame agreement on gas exports to China was signed by former president Sapparmurat Niyazov in April 2006. Just year later, his successor – Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov went to Beijing in […]

May has come and reminded me about the pre-Caspian gas pipeline project. A year ago, on May 12, in Turkmenbashi town a declaration on the pre-Caspian project was signed. The document endorsed by presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan assumed a construction of the pre-Caspian gas pipeline (to run along the Caspian Sea coastline […]

On 20-25 April, Turkmen energy minister Baimyrat Khodzamuhammedov visited Islamabad where he took part in the 10th meeting of steering committee of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. Apart from him, the meeting gathered Indian, Pakistani and Afghan officials. Few days later, on April 28th Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov traveled to Kabul (first time in independent […]

Translation of AbdulGamid’s post of 19.01.07 from Russian
Everything is relative. If we used to say that “life is not all honey”, now we’re going to say that “life is not all petrol”, meaning the cheapest petrol in the world - 400 manats (0.02 USD) per litre.
Petrol prices are going to rise six (!) times […]

 Translation of Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian from 12. 10. 2007
It seems that nothing epic is going to happen in 2009, but the new notes of Turkmen manats will be introduced.
Turkmenistan’s new banknote samples were approved at the top level on October 11. The banknotes will be circulated in 2009. The design of new banknotes […]

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 […]

Looking back at the Spring 2007, especially at May 25th, which is traditionally last day of school and graduation ceremonies are held at every secondary school around post-soviet region, including Turkmenistan. But there were none this year… for the Turkmen good!
Fortunately, there was no graduating class 2007 even though many school students had already […]

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 […]

It’s time for me to finally affiliate myself with something political and sound… I guess. With this mission I surf the web for sites and blogs of various political parties, their opposition and their leaders. I wonder where do I belong? What do I have to choose from?
Let’s see…

Turkmenistan: The Golden Age . The best choice as […]

Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian, 23.07.07. Translated by Merdjen
In December 2006, Neweurasia.net carried out an interesting experiment - we asked our authors to write a post on the following topic “How do I see my home country in 15 years?”. The Russian Turkmenistan blog hadn’t yet existed at that time, so we still don’t […]