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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan stories: 4 news summaries

 US to Expand Routes 
 Into Afghanistan 

Safer roads will depend on cooperation of Central Asian nations

Dec 31, 08 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - More than four-fifths of the supplies for allied troops in Afghanistan travel via Pakistan along a treacherous route, prompting the US to plan new supply lines in the embattled region. The fragility of the current setup was laid bare after a Pakistani counter-militant offensive shut down the Khyber Pass yesterday,... More »

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Afghanistan • Russia • NATO • Pakistan • Azerbaijan • army supplies • Turkmenistan • Khyber Pass • Uzbekistan • Tajikistan

Turkmenistan Dumps Months Named After Heroes, Poets, Dictator's Mom

New leader rolls back

Apr 25, 08 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a step away from the legacy of its late dictator, who renamed each month after heroes, poets, and himself, Turkmenistan’s president urged a return to traditional month names, the Guardian reports. April had been named after Saparmurat Niyazov’s mother, while September was a reference to Niyazov’s... More »

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calendars • dictatorship • Turkmenistan • Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov • Saparmurat Niyazov

Heads Roll
After Roach's
TV Guest Spot

Turkmen president gives state-run station's newscast thumbs down

Feb 22, 08 10:41 AM CST
(Newser) - An ongoing overhaul of Turkmenistan state TV is apparently so interesting that even members of the animal kingdom want a front-row seat. Unfortunately for the staff of the nightly news, a cockroach recently strolled across the studio table while cameras were rolling, leading the country's president to fire dozens of... More »

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cockroaches • Turkmenistan • cockroach • former Soviet state • Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov

Political Rift
Weakens
Ahmadinejad

Ayatollah overrules Iranian president on
gas for villagers

Jan 22, 08 5:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Iran's firebrand president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered a serious political humiliation  yesterday when the nation's supreme leader sided with his opponents to force him to supply a billion dollars worth of natural gas to remote villages suffering power cuts. Iran's poorest communities are enduring one of the harshest winters in years,... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • nuclear program • natural gas • Turkmenistan • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • power cuts • harsh winter

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