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	OSCE Centre in Ashgabad - Homepage
		In July 1998, the Permanent Council of the OSCE decided to establish a permanent OSCE presence in Ashgabad in order to intensify co-operation between Turkmenistan and the OSCE.
		In January 1999, the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad commenced its activities.
		ASHGABAD, 25 October 2007 - Teaching young people to teach their peers about the dangers of HIV/AIDS and drugs was the focus of an OSCE Centre-supported training course that ends today in Ashgabad...
	www.osce.org /ashgabad (158 words)

	FANTASIA -> Turkmenistan -> Cities -> Ashgabad
		There are quite a few attractive sights in Ashgabad.
		Neutrality Arch of 75 meters (245 ft) in hight has a spinning 12 meters (39 ft) all golden statue of President Saparmurad Niyazov on the top is the pride of the city.
		Other places to visit in one day trip from Ashgabad are: Old Nisa - ruins of ancient cities, Turkmenbashi horse stud - watch wonderfull Akhal Teke horses, Anau Mosque, Chuli mountain resort - hiking and climbing area, Kov Ata underground mineral lake with water temerature of 36 C (97F).
	www.fantasticasia.net /?p=421 (292 words)

	The Ashgabad Gazette
		Above, the onion domes of one of the two remaining Russian Orthodox churches in Ashgabad.
		At her suggestion I went with Natasha to visit to one of the two Russian Orthodox Churches in Ashgabad.
		It is a modest brick structure with two onion domes, tucked away beyond the end of Magtymguly and behind the Iranian Embassy compound at the western end of the city.
	home.xnet.com /~jkelley/Turkmenistan.fldr/AshGazette35.html (939 words)

	Save Farid Tukhbatullin!
		ASHGABAD, 31 December 2002 - The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad is concerned about the fate of Mr.
		Farid Tuhbatullin, a member of a registered environmental group, who was detained by the authorities on 23 December and has been charged with illegal border crossing and concealment of a crime.
		He attended several OSCE events, including two meetings of the Economic Forum, and was actively involved in the implementation of a two-year series of roundtables on the Aarhus Convention that the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad recently completed.
	www.seu.ru /projects/eng/farid/faride3.htm (331 words)

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		The family has been told that he is being held at the main headquarters of the National Security Ministry in the capital Ashgabad, and access to him is not being permitted.
		He had travelled to Ashgabad to collect money that had been transferred to him, and was then detained by the National Security Ministry, which has declined to discuss his case with Forum 18.
		Khudaikuliev was detained on 15 December in the capital Ashgabad and for several days his family did not know what had happened to him, Protestant sources who did not want to be identified told Forum 18.
	www.eurasianet.org /turkmenistan.project/files/031219F18News.txt (674 words)

	Turkmenistan highlights
		Ashgabad is the capital of Turkmenistan with the population of 450 thousand people.
		Based only in 1881 and destroyed completely in 1948 by the terrible earthquake Ashgabad is now one of the most beautiful and biggest cities of Central Asia.
		Lesser known Izmukshir is the ancient city of Zamakshar, home to the great X century philosopher Az-Zamakshari and one of the largest and most picturesque fortress ruins of the Khorezm empire.
	www.asia-travel.uz /turkmenistan/hight.html (426 words)

	CENTRAL ASIA - CAUCASUS ANALYST
		Azerbaijan seems to have appreciated this new conciliatory mood in Ashgabad, which they want to explore to end the current unfriendly relations with their Caspian neighbour.
		Thus, in mid-May, less than six months after the Uzbek ambassador in Ashghabad was declared persona non grata and forced to leave for Tashkent for his alleged involvement in the assassination attempt, Niyazov praised Turkmenistan's relations with Uzbekistan.
		As evident in that statement, Ashgabad’s sudden change of attitude towards Tashkent indicated its intention to break its mainly self-imposed isolation.
	www.cacianalyst.org /view_article.php?articleid=1571&SMSESSION=NO (1072 words)

	Forum 18 Search/Archive
		The Baptist and Pentecostal churches in the capital Ashgabad were confiscated in 2001, leaving both communities with nowhere to worship.
		Soon afterwards a privately-built mosque, located on Garashsyzlyk Avenue in the Garadamak area of southern Ashgabad, was demolished, together with a large number of houses in the same area.
		One local Muslim suggested that all four of the Ashgabad mosques demolished in the autumn were targeted because their imams refused to read Niyazov's Ruhnama in their mosques.
	www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=481 (1361 words)

	Turkmenistan Launches Torture, Intimidation Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At least four known believers in the capital of Ashgabad have been subjected to repeated beatings, electric shocks, partial suffocation and other forms of torture while under interrogation, prosecution and ongoing harassment.
		All are members of a Protestant house church group in Ashgabad pastored by Piriyev.
		All the identity documents of the four, as well as the ownership papers of their homes and cars, were confiscated by the authorities.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/compass-turkmenistan.html (869 words)

	OSCE Centre in Ashgabad - photos
		The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad is helping young people to teach their peers about the dangers of HIV/AIDS and drugs, 25 October 2007.
		The OSCE Centre in Ashgabad organized training courses for border security officials on conducting physical searches and using x-ray detection systems and metal detectors.
		Members of Turkmenistan's Mejlis (Parliament) during a visit to the German Bundestag organized by the OSCE Centre in Ashgabad and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, 17 September 2007.
	www.osce.org /ashgabad/photos.html (180 words)

	Christian Persecution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The following day, Korobov was called into the Ashgabad KNB office, where he was told not to leave the city for at least six months and threatened with further legal action if he did not discontinue conducting meetings.
		The Ashgabad KNB is also actively pressuring Baptist prisoner, Shageldy Atakov and his family to leave the country.
		On May 12th, his wife, Artgyul, was also brought to Ashgabad for a meeting with her husband at KNB headquarters to discuss the emigration offer.
	www.help-for-you.com /persecution/persecutionTue22May2001.html (1733 words)

	Turkmenistan deports more missionaries - Worthy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The KNB has informed Shokhrat Piriyev, a Protestant pastor in Ashgabad, that he will be deported back to his home town of Turkmenabad (formerly Chardjou).
		Authorities told Piriyev that his permit to live in Ashgabad is "faulty" and that he must report to the KNB on Tuesday.
		He was a leader in the Ashgabad Baptist congregation.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/newsroom-turkmenistan-baptist-missionaries-deported.html (509 words)

	IRPP
		One registered Sunni mosque in Ashgabad, like most government offices, schools, factories and some places of worship, has a "Ruhnama room" honouring the president's book, just as in the Soviet period space was set aside to honour Lenin and the communist movement.
		One Jehovah's Witness elder who preferred not to be named told Forum 18 from Ashgabad last September that although his community was planning to lodge a registration application, it would not accept official demands made of other faiths to hang the country's flag and a portrait of the president in places of worship.
		One local Muslim suggested that four of the Ashgabad mosques demolished in the autumn 2004 campaign of mosque destruction were targeted because their imams refused to read the Ruhnama in their mosques (see F18News 4 January 2005 http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=481).
	www.religionandpolicy.org /show.php?p=1.1.1549 (2069 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Europe & Central Asia: Turkmenistan
		In the following weeks, police in the capital, Ashgabad, arrested Garabaev's mother, sister, and uncle, and confiscated his mother's house; as of this writing they remained in custody.
		In one Ashgabad neighborhood, the homes of six relatives of exiled opposition leader Avdy Kuliev were destroyed; no other homes in the neighborhood were affected.
		The OSCE continued its series of informational seminars, held in Ashgabad and other cities, aimed at making the people of Turkmenistan better acquainted with the OSCE's activities and projects in the country.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k3/europe14.html (2101 words)

	Forum 18 Search/Archive
		Of the four religious leaders known to Forum 18 to have been summoned to the sixth department in the capital Ashgabad in early June, some refused to go while others went but refused to write a statement about their activities or to present the list of members the police were demanding.
		But an elder in Ashgabad, who preferred not to be identified, told Forum 18 on 25 June that their communities still cannot meet together in large numbers without being harassed and such harassment has continued since April.
		Veronika Annaklycheva, deputy hyakim (head of administration) of the Kopetdag district of Ashgabad where the Adventist church was bulldozed in November 1999 remained unrepentant.
	www.forum18.org /Archive.php?article_id=350 (2007 words)

	Review for Ashgabad hotels - Ashgabad hotels reviews
		The Nebitchi Hotel, built in 1995, is ideally located in a beautiful district of Ashgabad, close to the Carpet Museum, 5 minute walk from the Ashgabad Business Centre.
		The Nissa Hotel, built in 1998, has Italian management and is situated in the center close to the administrative district of the city.
		The Turkmenistan Hotel, built in 1950 and totally reconstructed in 1995, is conveniently located in the heart of the city close to the main administrative and government buildings.
	ashgabad-hotels.hotelmole.com (425 words)

	Day 17
		Our first impression of Ashgabad ("city of love"), yesterday, was dominated by extremely low-rise single houses, almost a rural touch.
		Ashgabad was totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1948 and so all building is past that date and only few dare to build more than one floor.
		Russian president Putin is expected to come to Ashgabad soon, so some of us are forced to stay in a different hotel.
	www.team-busch.com /rally/day/17.html (576 words)

	Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple - Utah Krishnas
		Hare Krishna devotee Cheper Annaniyazova, sentenced on 17 November in the capital Ashgabad to seven years' imprisonment, was transferred in late November to Turkmenistan's only women's prison in the northern town of Dashoguz [Dashhowuz] close to the border with Uzbekistan, Forum 18 News Service has learnt.
		The court would not recognise her documentary evidence of her flight ticket, nor a certificate of a fine levied on departure from Kazakhstan by the police, for overstaying her time in the country without documentation.
		Sources say the judge at Ashgabad city court has refused to give her lawyer a copy of the written verdict, or even to let the lawyer see it.
	www.utahkrishnas.com /main/page.asp?id=433 (895 words)

	WATAN - news
		As Marat Klychmamedov wandered around the stables at the Ashgabad Hippodrome chatting with the teenage grooms and studying the form, he knew the magnificent beasts owned by Turkmenistan's most famous breeder, Turkmenbashy, would be odds-on to win any of the six races on the card for National Horse Day.
		The president's horses, stabled in a new, multi-million dollar State Equestrian Centre 15 km outside Ashgabad in the foothills of the Kopetdag mountains separating Turkmenistan from Iran, did well on the heavy, rain-sodden track, re-affirming Mr Niyazov's place at the core of Turkmen culture.
		In a civic building boom worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Ashgabad has been transformed from a desert village into what the president claims is a world-class capital, though it is almost impossible for anyone to visit without an official invitation.
	watan.ru /eng/view.php?nomer=464&razd=new_nov_en&pg=15 (1244 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Europe & Central Asia: Turkmenistan
		Only the department of theology at Ashgabad University, which is under strict police surveillance, had the right to teach Islamic studies.
		President Niazov's grandiose construction projects for Ashgabad required the destruction of many homes, and according to diplomats, homeowners in numerous cases were not paid the full amount of promised compensation, or received nothing.
		In February, the head of the OSCE center in Ashgabad requested permission to visit Shahgildy Atakov, but officials ignored the request.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/europe20.html (1564 words)

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		It was very clearly stated in Ashgabad by the Foreign Ministers of the two countries.
		It is not coincidence, that just on the days when in Ashgabad Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan suppressed the attack of Moscow and Teheran, Deputy the US State Secretary James Collins arrived in Baku immediately with the letter from Bill Clinton.
		The concern of Azerbaijan has been confirmed by the results of the meeting in Ashgabad, which aggravated withstanding between the littoral states according to the formula "3 against 2." Moscow and Teheran, use the problem of the Caspian, try to limit the access of foreign companies to the region.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/usazerb/ana80.htm (990 words)

	BREAKING NEWS! Sabbath schooling threats
		Leading Adventist Olga Kholopova was summoned by the secret police in the capital Ashgabad on 8 November and, two days later, to her local police station in a bid to force her to send her son to school on Saturdays, the Adventist day of rest and worship.
		On 1 June the Adventists became one of the few minority religious faiths to regain registration this year after a seven and a half year period when all their activity was treated as illegal.
		Despite their religious convictions, one Adventist family in Ashgabad was forced to bow to intense pressure in September not to keep their child away from school on Saturdays.
	www.remnantofgod.org /bn041112.htm (1001 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although police in the capital, Ashgabad, insist Adventists are not suspects, church members say the investigation has focused more on their beliefs than on establishing who was responsible for the children's deaths.
		Anatoli Belyayev was brought from the KNB prison in the Turkmen capital Ashgabad to the city's airport, where he was reunited with his wife Natalya and daughter just before they were forcibly placed on a flight to Russia.
		Belyayev, a leader in the Ashgabad Baptist congregation, was threatened with deportation upon his arrest in February and his passport was confiscated.
	www.vineyardfederalway.org /pages/missions/persecution/html/Turkmenistan.htm (7364 words)

	Turkmenistan2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nurov was told by officials that after his "propiska" (residence permit) in Ashgabad was cancelled, his passport would be returned, and he would then be given copies of the formal confiscation documents.
		Sources told Keston that the last raids on the Ashgabad Greater Grace church took place in summer 1999 and that, unlike the Baptist and Pentecostal churches in Ashgabad, which are raided approximately every other Sunday, their meetings take place undisturbed at present.
		Belyayev, a leader in the Ashgabad Baptist congregation, which belongs to the Council of Churches of Evangelical Christians/Baptists, was threatened with deportation upon his arrest in February and his passport was confiscated.
	www.hrwf.net /html/turkmenistan2000.html (6156 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		ASHGABAD, April 2 (AFP)-Central Asian leaders' fears about religious fundamentalism have grown since 1,000 Muslim fundamentalists invaded southern Kyrgyzstan last fall, taking four Japanese geologists hostage and vowing to advance on Uzbekistan.
		While the hostages were eventually released unharmed and the rebels retreated to Afghanistan, many believe the band will return through the mountain passes with warm weather this spring.
		Turkmen officials said the church had to be destroyed to make way for a main thoroughfare through the neighborhood of ramshackle huts on the outskirts of the Turkmen capital, Ashgabad.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-English/dowalia/news-03-April-2000/topnews7.asp (639 words)

	Free Turkmenistan
		As my wife's mother was living in Ashgabad, we needed to go there quite often.
		After 3 hours, we were released from the cell and the deputy chief of the police returned my passport and told me to take the next night train to Ashgabad and not to appear any more in Gyzylarbat.
		Until November 23, 1999 I was left in peace in Ashgabad.
	www.erkin.net /chronicle/baptist.html (5081 words)

	Baptist prisoner in Turkmenistan released; other difficulties continue - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Last May, in a deal brokered by U.S. diplomats, Atakov was brought to Ashgabad, where he met the head of the political police, the KNB (former KGB), and was pressured to emigrate with his family in return for his freedom.
		Kozlov was driving alone from Turkmenbashi to Ashgabad on Dec. 21 when he went off the road.
		His funeral in Ashgabad on Dec. 28 attracted many Baptists from across Turkmenistan and Russia and was not disturbed by the KNB.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=12526 (872 words)

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