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  Turkmenistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia and subsequent political unrest led to the declaration of the Turkmen Republic as one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union in 1924.
President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov, a former bureaucrat of the Communist Party of the USSR, has ruled Turkmenistan since 1985, when he became head of the local branch of the Communist Party.
President Niyazov has squandered much of his country's revenue on self-glorification, with cities, Ashgabat in particular, being given extensive renovations whilst the people living outside the capital struggle in conditions of poverty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkmenistan   (1099 words)

  
 Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan stands for strengthening and broadening of the role of the UN in the solution not only global problems but also in the collective discussion of the regional issues, for a more extensive use of the potential of the United Nations and its institutions in proposing and implementing foreign policy initiatives.
Turkmenistan had proposed before from the same podium this initiative on the development and adoption under the UN aegis of the international convention on the regime and guarantees of the functioning of interstate pipeline.
Turkmenistan stands for Caspian to be the zone of peace, stability and sustainable international cooperation on the basis of principles of justice and mutual respect.
www.un.org /webcast/ga/57/statements/020918turkmenistanE.htm   (1470 words)

  
 Government - Turkmenistan - Asia
Turkmenistan promulgated its first constitution as an independent republic in May 1992, replacing the constitution of the Soviet period.
The president of Turkmenistan is head of state, head of government, and supreme commander of the armed forces.
President Niyazov is head of the DPT, which was the only standing party in the legislative elections of 1994.
www.countriesquest.com /asia/turkmenistan/government.htm   (826 words)

  
 The EU's relations with Turkmenistan - Overview
In October 2000, President Niyazov reiterated that his country is not yet mature enough to make the transition to a multiparty democracy, and denied the existence of political prisoners in Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan has been forced to restrict even the limited currency convertibility it previously allowed (there is a discrepancy of one to three between the official exchange rate and the fl market one).
The Council of Ministers is appointed by the President.
europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/turkmenistan/intro   (2520 words)

  
 Supreme Council on science and technology at the President of Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The chairman  - President of Turkmenistan, academician Saparmurat Ataevich NIYAZOV
According to the Law of Turkmenistan "About state scientific and technical policy" on development of a science and engineering the means from the state budget at a rate of not less than 1 % of the national income are allocated.
Chairman - President of Turkmenistan, academician Saparmurat Niyazov
www.tacistm.org /Governm/VSNT.htm   (361 words)

  
 INOGATE - Republic of Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon resources are concentrated mainly in the Southern Caspian oil and gas-bearing province and the Amu-Darya gas and oil-bearing province.
Turkmenistan's oil transportation system is concentrated mainly in the west, and is designed to supply raw material from producing fields to the Turkmenbashi oil refinery and the Alaja and Ekerem oil terminals.
Turkmenistan's oil and gas sector is being retooled with the extensive involvement of international field service companies that introduce modern technologies and oversee their application, train local personnel, etc. On the other hand, in an attempt lo mitigate dependence on foreign companies; Turkmenistan is setting up its own field services sector.
www.inogate.org /html/countries/turkmenistan.htm   (15373 words)

  
 Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan, a one-party state dominated by its president and his closest advisers, made little progress in moving from a Soviet-era authoritarian style of government to a democratic system.
Turkmenistan is largely a desert with cattle and sheep raising, intensive agriculture in irrigated areas, and huge oil and gas reserves.
President Niyazov promised in 1998 that the parliamentary elections scheduled for December for a reconstituted Mejlis would be "free and fair" and conducted on a "wide democratic basis." However, the elections held in December were seriously flawed.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/366.htm   (6948 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Avoid gold teeth, says Turkmen leader
The president told a young woman at the ceremony to have her conspicuous gold teeth replaced with white ones by his health minister, "himself a dentist".
President Niyazov, whose white hair appears to have turned fl in recent photographs, frequently expresses his distaste for what he describes as the decadence of the nation's youth.
Turkmenistan is full of gilded statues of its president, who frequently appears sporting jewel-studded gold rings on his fingers.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3607467.stm   (421 words)

  
 Government & Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1985 he was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Turkmenistan and was subsequently elected First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, the highest state and party post.
Niyazov was elected President of the Republic of Turkmenistan.
Niyazov's success as President of Turkmenistan has been attributed to his extensive and productive work in stabilizing the economic situation of the country.
www.turkmenistanembassy.org /turkmen/gov/presbio.html   (316 words)

  
 TURKMENISTAN Textile News Summaries
[Nov 20, 2002] Turkmenistan is facing its worst cotton harvest in years and in a rare move has officially acknowledged it has met only a quarter of the two million metric ton target set......
[Nov 27, 2001] Turkmenistan plans to increase its cotton harvest 80 per cent to 2m tonnes in 2002, says a resolution of the Turkmen president on cotton sowing.........
[Nov 24, 2004] President Niyazov opened the textile complex in Serdar district of Balkan Provine, spread on 24 hectares it is expected to employ 3000 jobs......
turkmenistan.textilenews.org   (1769 words)

  
 Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turkmenistan, a one-party state dominated by its president and his closest advisers, continues to exercise power in a Soviet-era authoritarian style despite Constitutional provisions nominally establishing a democratic system.
Following remarks by President Niyazov on September 27, in which he criticized an elementary school history textbook for its portrayal of Turkmen history, all copies of the book were recalled from schools and most have been destroyed.
President Niyazov promised in 1998 that the parliamentary elections scheduled for December 1999 for a reconstituted Mejlis would be "free and fair" and conducted on a "wide democratic basis;" however, the elections were seriously flawed.
www.ecoi.net /pub/dh117.htm   (8339 words)

  
 Turkmenistan News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Eurasianet,: The presidents of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, whose mutual animosity has been well documented in recent years, are striving to revive a functional...
Turkmenistan.ru,: President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov signed a number of resolutions to further increase oil refining capacity of the Turkmenbashi complex of oil...
Turkmenistan.ru,: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are expected to sign an interstate agreement on the issues of stabilization of the Turkmen-Uzbek border situation, joint use of...
www.4newz.net /nov2004/Turkmenistan.html   (2552 words)

  
 Shots fired at car carrying president of Turkmenistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The president said the truck ran over a traffic police officer, who was hospitalized and underwent surgery.
The Interfax news agency reported one of the president's bodyguards was injured.
President since 1985, when Turkmenbashi was still part of the Soviet Union, he has created an elaborate cult of personality, naming cities, palaces, mosques, and airports after himself.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/11/25/international1116EST0538.DTL   (317 words)

  
 Turkmenistan: the Golden Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov: Strategic Partnership in the Name of Ideals of Peace and Humanism
There are the corners in the Turkmen land where the history as if finds a quiet haven amidst the stormy stream of time, where everything is covered with its breath, legends and folk tales.
The national champion Nebitchi football club from Balkanabat yielded Turkmenistan Football Cup to the leader of the national championship, the team of the International Turkmen-Turkish University summing up two matches.
www.turkmenistan.gov.tm /index_eng.html   (582 words)

  
 Turkmenistan article archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Goal.com,: Turkmenistan is the second-ranked Central Asian nation but have some way to catch Uzbekistan as the region’s prime movers, being defeated twice by the Uzbeks...
Eurasianet: Turkmenistan is vulnerable to a "grave" public health crisis, thanks in large part to the totalitarian practices of President Saparmurat Niyazov’s regime...
RIA Novosti,: Simultaneously, it is holding talks with Turkmenistan, a major gas producer in Central Asia, on direct supplies of Turkmen gas and the construction of a gas...
www.4newz.net /news/Turkmenistan.html   (7544 words)

  
 President Of Turkmenistan Renames Month After Himself   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Niyazov, officially known as Turkmenbashi, or Head of all the Turkmen, but usually known as Turkmenbashi the Great, proposed that January be renamed Turkmenbashi at a meeting of the People's Council, the country's highest consultative body.
Niyazov was offered the presidency for life in 1999, although he has said he may step down and hold elections in 2010.
Appointed President for life, Saparmurat Niyazov, who likes to be called "Turkmenbashi", the father of all Turkmenis, has stamped out the opposition and exercises total control over state structures and the media in this old central-Asian Soviet Republic.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/730112/posts   (1071 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Turkmen leader to rename calendar
Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov has announced his intention to officially rename all 12 months of the year in commemoration of the country's heroes and most potent national symbols.
In response, a speaker at the council suggested calling the month by the full name of the president's deceased mother, Gurbansoltan, which the president said he would consider.
Many people on the streets of Turkmenistan seemed unperturbed, but others were bitter regarding their leader's latest plans.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2181151.stm   (361 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Belarussian President visits Turkmenistan
Belarus is ranked the 26th place among Turkmenistan's foreign trade partners.
The presidents are expected to sign the Treaty on friendship and cooperation, the Treaty on trade and economic cooperation till 2010 and agreements on air communication and evasion of double taxation as part of the first-ever visit by the Belarussian president to Turkmenistan.
According to the agreements, during the next 8 years Turkmenistan will annually purchase in Belarus 2,000 MTZ-80 tractors, 1,000 20-ton MAZ lorries and 50 40-ton BELAZ cars.
english.pravda.ru /cis/2002/05/16/28819_.html   (151 words)

  
 The Johns Hopkins Gazette: April 27, 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Foreign Policy, introduces Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan, left, to Paul Wolfowitz, dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
President Niyazov spoke at SAIS on April 21 at the invitation of the Central Asia Institute.
Before an invited audience of diplomats, journalists and scholars, he spoke about the social and economic challenges Turkmenistan has faced since its independence in 1991.
www.jhu.edu /~gazette/aprjun98/apr2798/27sais.html   (71 words)

  
 Ezilon > World > Countries > Turkmenistan > Turkmenistan Science and Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
enterprise at the president of Turkmenistan on Caspian Sea matters with ministries and directorates concerning...
Resources Executive Director Supreme Council of Science and Technology under the President of Turkmenistan Mr.
Science and Technology: Turkmenistan Federation of American Scientists(http://www.fas.org) The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is the oldest organization dedicated to ending the worldwide
www.ezilon.com /cgi-bin/jump/jump_nav.cgi?cat=2x26x19333x21791   (271 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Gazprom head discusses gas projects with President of Turkmenistan
Gazprom's management declared earlier that the company intended to reach a final agreement with Turkmenistan on purchasing its gas before the end of February 2003.
Turkmenistan insists on a price of $40 per 1,000 cubic m, whereas Gazprom offers a price of $20-22 per 1,000 cubic m.
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and LUKoil chief Vagit Alekperov discussed today at a meeting held in Alma-Ata the progress of joint project implementation, including the projects on the Caspian shelf, LUKoil's press service reported.
newsfromrussia.com /comp/2003/02/11/43233.html   (2131 words)

  
 The Cellar - President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov
The Cellar - President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov
He has banned beards and listening to car radios, and instituted a national holiday in honour of a melon.
Mr Niyazov underwent major heart surgery in 1997, after which he quit smoking, ordered all his ministers to do likewise and banned smoking in public places.
cellar.org /showthread.php?t=5547   (212 words)

  
 biography
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Turkmenistan,
The First President of Independent Turkmenistan Saparmyrat Atayevich Niyazov-political name given by people Turkmenbashy-was born on February 19,1940 in Ashgabat.
On October,27,1991 Turkmenistan was proclaimed an independent state in nation wide referendum.
www.turkmenbashi.8m.com /bio.htm   (98 words)

  
 Turkmenistan
The Government registered no parties during the year and continued to repress all opposition political activities.
Scholars are very reluctant to begin textbook projects.
There are no legal guarantees entitling workers to form or join unions.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/index.cfm?docid=850   (8395 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Full Honor Arrival Ceremony for President of Turkmenistan
President Saparmurat Niyazov, of Turkmenistan, will be welcomed to the Pentagon with a full honors arrival ceremony at 1 p.m.
The ceremony will be held on the River Parade Field of the Pentagon.
Media interested in audiovisual coverage of this event may contact Terry Mitchell at (703) 695-0169.
www.defenselink.mil /advisories/1998/p04211998_p091-98.html   (71 words)

  
 Turkmenistan Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
President of Turkmenistan Sacks Minister on Corruption Charges
Turkmenistan gas production, exports up 6% in Jan
Iran, Turkmenistan should revise bilateral trade policies: official
www.ku.edu /cgiwrap/herron/eurasia/turkmenistan.php   (271 words)

  
 Turkmenistan President's Cup
IX Turkmenistan President Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi Cup NB: Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi is the official title of the Turkmen head of state.
Lokomotiv(y) 0-2 Turkmenistan [A.Muhadov, Rasif Kerimov] LOK: Aleksandr Krivoruchko, Stepan Reznik, Andrei Lozhkin, Pavel Plaskonny, Aleh Popel, Yuriy Khusyainov (Egidijus Majus 84), Andrei Golovkov, Igor Voznesenskiy, Yevgeniy Zinovyev, Konstantin Veremei, Aleksei Savitskiy.
XI Turkmenistan President Cup (2005) All matches played at Kopetdag Stadium, Asgabat.
www.rsssf.com /tablest/turkmpres.html   (849 words)

  
 The Cellar - President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Now the world's craziest dictator has identified a new and pressing danger to his people: gold teeth.
04-17-2004 09:33 AM There's also this, from the BBC's country profile of Turkmenistan:
If that bald leader takes his shoe off and starts pounding the podium, then worry.
cellar.org /printthread.php?t=5547   (174 words)

  
 Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan iashulularyng VIII maslakhaty iashulular syrdamy il ogly Turkmenbashy [[proceedings]], in Turkmen, Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, 1998, 138 pp., PB, SUBJECT(S)/KEYWORD(S): Politics US$6.5
Durdyev, B., Semeinoe pravo Turkmenskoi SSR [Family law of Turkmenistan], in Russian, Ashkhabad, Ylym, 1977, 120 pp., PB, SUBJECT(S)/KEYWORD(S): Law US$5.2
Poetry], Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 1992, 136 pp., PB, SUBJECT(S)/KEYWORD(S): Poetry US$11.7
www3.sympatico.ca /meabooks/html/turkmenistan.htm   (5834 words)

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