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30.01.2007 15:23 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
According to Zatoka's wife Yevgenia, charges under four articles of the Criminal Code were pressed against the environmentalist.
25.01.2007 06:31 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
A roundtable conference on Turkmenistan in the wake of Saparmurat Niyazov's demise took place at the Carnegie Moscow Center on January 23. Experts and journalists discussed options of development, geopolitical strategies, and - of course - gas export.
22.01.2007 09:04 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Leadership of Turkmenistan does not have any objections to foreign observers' presence in the country in the course of election of the president. OSCE observers are expected in Turkmenistan. "We expect representatives of other international organizations as well," taciturn Foreign Minister Rashid Me
19.01.2007 16:25 msk Human Rights Turkmenistan
Turkmen human rights activists claim that 23 prisoners were executed in Ovadan-Depe. Republican Interior Ministry denounces the reports as false.
29.12.2006 21:53 msk Politics Turkmenistan
A delegate of the Halk Maslahaty (People's Council of Turkmenistan) who insisted on anonymity says that the Mary velajat or region will be run by security structures pending election of the president on February 11, 2007.
29.12.2006 12:09 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Russia's stand on Turkmenistan essentially comes down to its wish to see Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov elevated to president. Not because the Kremlin likes Berdymuhammedov but because the "legitimate heir" i.e. the Turkmenbashi's son is not in the Russian orbit.
27.12.2006 11:20 msk Business Turkmenistan
A Turkmen expert who insisted on anonymity agreed to talk to Ferghana.Ru on speculations in the media over stability of Turkmen gas import into Russia whose interruptions may affect Russian gas balance and even gas export to East and West Europe.
27.12.2006 11:18 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov will become the second president of Turkmenistan. Election of the president will take place on February 11, but the throne by traditions of the Soviet nomenclature is already reserved for the chairman of the commission for the funeral of the late President Saparmurat Niyaz
26.12.2006 09:38 msk Politics Turkmenistan
Nurmuhamed Hanamov, one of the leaders of the Turkmen opposition and Republican Party chairman, told Vremya Novostei that Defense Minister Agageldy Mamedgeldyev and almost 120 civil servants were arrested in Ashkhabad yesterday. If there is even a kernel of truth in these reports, then analysts were
25.12.2006 11:33 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
On the photo: Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov, 49, acting president of Turkmenistan
25.12.2006 11:26 msk Turkmenistan
Even with the dictator gone, the Turkmen repressive apparat wouldn't let go of the citizenry.
25.12.2006 11:20 msk Turkmenistan
The Financial Times reported last Saturday that the Turkmen authorities had $1.68 billion worth of gas export to Ukraine revenues in Deutsche Bank and that President Saparmurat Niyazov alone was allegedly in control of the bank account. Kommersant approached Vatan leader Hudaiberdy Orazov, former ch
25.12.2006 11:15 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, the first and lifetime president of Turkmenistan who died last week, was interred in the family mausoleum in his native village of Kipchak. Well-informed and trustworthy sources in Ashkhabad maintain that Niyazov's circle of confidants was undecided on personnel composition o
22.12.2006 16:22 msk Analytics Turkmenistan
Aleksei Malashenko of the Moscow Carnegie Center:
22.12.2006 16:14 msk Turkmenistan
The president' sudden death stirred the political establishment and population of Turkmenistan and left everyone in turmoil. Some Ferghana.Ru news agency correspondents have friends and relatives in Turkmenistan, living there since we all lived in the Soviet Union. It is only understandable therefor
21.12.2006 10:31 msk Turkmenistan
Turkmen TV station reported "President Saparmurat Niyazov's sudden death". Lifetime President Niyazov, 66, has ruled Turkmenistan since 1985. He was also known as the Turkmenbashi or the Father of all Turkmens. Niyazov was the founder and president of the Turkmen World Association.
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