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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Turkmenistan</title>
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		<title>Isolated Turkmenistan denies entry to Peace Corps volunteers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Leonard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The reclusive Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has denied entry to dozens of Peace Corps volunteers, the organization&#8217;s country director said Friday.

The decision to bar 47 volunteers from the U.S. government-run program from the former Soviet state comes amid fears energy-rich Turkmenistan is reneging on commitments to open up after years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US voices concern over Turkmenistan&#8217;s bid to stop students traveling to foreign universities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Leonard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The United States expressed its concern Monday over efforts by Turkmenistan to prevent students from traveling to U.S.-linked universities.

A terse statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan said students studying at American-affiliated universities in Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan were denied permission to leave the country last week.
&#8220;We are dismayed by the government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India, Turkmenistan ink MOU on programme of cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT - India and Turkmenistan on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on a  programme of cooperation.

The  bilateral agreement was signed after delegation-level  talks between visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna and his Turkmenistan counterpart Rashid Meredov
Both Krishna and Meredov signed the MOU.
Krishna also called on the President of Turkmenistan,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmen president says gas-rich nation will build Caspian Sea naval base amid energy dispute</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan will establish a naval base on the Caspian Sea, the Central Asian nation&#8217;s president said Monday — a move that could inflame disputes over the area&#8217;s lucrative hydrocarbon fields.

Addressing top security officials in televised remarks, President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said a base will be built at the port city of Turkmenbashi to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy-rich Turkmenistan says it wants to sell gas to Britain to create new export markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan&#8217;s president has said his energy-rich country wants to export natural gas to Britain as part of its strategy to find new markets, state media reported Tuesday.

The remarks provide a further boost to European hopes of tapping into the Central Asian nation&#8217;s vast gas holdings and gradually reducing dependence on supplies from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmenistan and Germany&#8217;s RWE sign oil and gas exploration agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — German energy giant RWE AG has signed a deal with Turkmenistan to develop oil and gas fields off the energy-rich country&#8217;s Caspian shore, state-run media said Friday.

The agreement is another breakthrough in European efforts to tap Turkmenistan&#8217;s lucrative energy resources and could help efforts to diversify European gas deliveries away from Russia.
&#8220;In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmenistan starts filling vast lake in the middle of its harsh Karakum desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan has begun channeling water across hundreds of miles to create a lake in the heart of a barren desert, state media reported Thursday, in a Soviet-style engineering feat that some experts fear could unleash an environmental catastrophe.

Turkmen engineers are pumping in run-off water through a network of canals from irrigated cotton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmens, Azerbaijan hold talks on Caspian Sea boosting Europeean gas pipeline prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan have begun talks to agree on a border in the energy-rich Caspian Sea, the Turkmen foreign ministry said Thursday, a move that boosts prospects for a Western-backed pipeline project to pump gas to Europe.

The feasibility of the Nabucco pipeline — planned to connect eastern Turkey with the lucrative European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmenistan begins creating vast lake in harsh Karakum desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is creating a 2,000-square-kilometer (770-square-mile) lake in the heart of a barren desert.

State media say water is being channeled toward the 70-meter (230-foot) Karashor depression in northern Turkmenistan to create what will be called the Golden Age Lake.
It could take 15 years to fill the lake. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey, EU countries sign deal for pipeline to carry gas from Caspian, Mideast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzan Fraser</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANKARA, Turkey — European countries on Monday sealed an important agreement aimed at diversifying the continent&#8217;s energy sources — but their pipeline project to bring natural gas from Central Asia and the Middle East to Europe can&#8217;t entirely break Russia&#8217;s dominance.

The Nabucco pipeline is still seeking gas supplies — in particular, from Azerbaijan — despite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey, EU countries to sign deal for pipeline to carry gas from Caspian, Mideast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzan Fraser</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey and five European Union countries will sign a landmark agreement on Monday aimed at reducing Europe&#8217;s reliance on Russian energy by running a gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea region to the EU via Turkey.

The United States, which is backing the Nabucco project alongside the EU, said it does not object [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmenistan plans gas pipeline to supply Iran from field previously reserved for Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan has agreed to build a new pipeline to supply natural gas to Iran from a field previously reserved for deliveries to Russia, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday.

The deal appears to be part of an effort by the energy-rich Central Asian nation to reduce its dependence on Russia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkmenistan&#8217;s new Caspian Sea resort seen as open door by some, boondoggle by others</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/turkmenistans-new-caspian-sea-resort-seen-as-open-door-by-some-boondoggle-by-others-107337/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Leonard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan — Four white-marble hotels opened here in June on a spit of sand by a landlocked sea — the beginnings of what is billed as Central Asia&#8217;s answer to Las Vegas, an opulent $5 billion oasis of seaside villas, casinos, an artificial island and a ski center.

The resort-to-be stands out in this arid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: Russia plays checkbook diplomacy in own backyard _ but finds money won&#8217;t buy friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catrina Stewart</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW — Russia is using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies — even as it faces its own severe economic downturn.

Faced with its own economic crisis, the Kremlin could have downplayed its drive to reclaim its former status [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China sign landmark deal to buy 40 billion cubic meters of Turkmen natural gas annually</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/china-sign-landmark-deal-to-buy-40-billion-cubic-meters-of-turkmen-natural-gas-annually-91729/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — China signed a 30-year deal to increase purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan by 30 percent, state media reported Thursday — a landmark agreement for Beijing as it competes with Moscow for access to Central Asia&#8217;s energy wealth.

No value was announced for the deal, which also marks another step forward in Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China secures landmark deal to buy 40 billion cubic meters of Turkmen natural gas annually</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — China has secured a long-term deal to buy 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from energy-rich Turkmenistan.

State newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan reported Thursday the two countries have agreed on the binding details of a 30-year contract to increase China&#8217;s annual gas purchases from the previously agreed amount of 30 billion cubic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclusive Turkmenistan launches $1.5 bln resort in bid to reduce dependence on energy exports</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/reclusive-turkmenistan-launches-15-bln-resort-in-bid-to-reduce-dependence-on-energy-exports-81828/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/reclusive-turkmenistan-launches-15-bln-resort-in-bid-to-reduce-dependence-on-energy-exports-81828/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Birch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan — The president of this normally reclusive nation staged lavish ceremonies for foreign guests and media Monday to launch a new $1.5 billion resort on the desert shore of the Caspian Sea in a city named after his eccentric and autocratic predecessor.

Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov stood on the porch of one of three gleaming white [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China pledges $3 billion loan to help energy-rich Turkmenistan develop giant gas field</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/china-pledges-3-billion-loan-to-help-energy-rich-turkmenistan-develop-giant-gas-field-74134/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/china-pledges-3-billion-loan-to-help-energy-rich-turkmenistan-develop-giant-gas-field-74134/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — China will lend energy-rich Turkmenistan $3 billion to develop its vast South Yolotan natural gas field, Turkmen state media reported Saturday.

The loan marks a key step in Chinese efforts to secure long-term energy supplies from ex-Soviet Central Asia and will likely loosen Russia&#8217;s grip over Turkmenistan&#8217;s gas exports.
Work on a 4,300-mile (7,000-kilometer) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU seeks to enroll Caucasus neighbors, Egypt and Iraq into energy deal bypassing Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 07:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Wielaard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — The European Union will press eight southern neighbors on Friday to join a long-term partnership that would give them a sustained income from their natural gas in the years ahead and provide Western Europe with stable gas deliveries that bypass Russia.

At a meeting in Prague with leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US diplomat urges energy-rich Central Asia to diversify its export routes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Vershinin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — A recent crippling gas pipeline blast in Turkmenistan, which the government blamed on Russia&#8217;s gas monopoly Gazprom, is proof that energy-rich Central Asian nations need to diversify their export routes, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday.

Russia currently controls most natural gas export routes out of the region, but that grip is coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Asian energy meeting comes amid rivalry between Russia, Europe, China and Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Leonard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Russia has had a lock on Central Asia&#8217;s energy riches since the Soviet collapse. But, as representatives from key countries gather at an international conference in Turkmenistan, it is increasingly apparent that other countries have designs on breaking that stranglehold.

Gas-rich Turkmenistan says the meetings Thursday and Friday will focus on &#8220;energy transit [...]]]></description>
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