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• East and West Scramble for Turkmenistans Riches

  
  EUROPEAN TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 428
  President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov Photo: Dmitry Kstuyukov AFP/Getty Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 East and West Scramble for Turkmenistans Riches By Simon Shuster / Ashgabat At the crossroads between east and west in the desert nation of Turkmenistan, a quiet battle is under way for ...
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• Catching a cold in Mecca: Turkmen pilgrims forced to stay home

  
  neweurasia.net — Authority: 498
  Image by neweurasias Schwartz (CC-usage). Click on it to read the story by the Chronicles of Turkmenistan. This year, more than two million people across the world are heading, as if pulled by a magnet, to one single spot on earth: Mecca.  But no Turkmen will be joining this great human current.  Although ...
  3 days ago

• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – November 25th

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The white ribbon has become the symbol for the day. Click on the picture to join the Community Posted in 101 resolutions to your friends, ADVENTURES, Afghanistan, AFRICA, Angola, Armenia, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, Azerbaijan, ...
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• Distorted Oil Reserve Figures Create Biofuel Opportunities

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 541
  The recent revelations of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA may have distorted key oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers rarely come forward to advance their careers), a slow-burning thermonuclear explosion on future global oil production. The Bush ...
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• Influenzastan, part 5: the internet is a far more dangerous virus

  
  neweurasia.net — Authority: 498
  A map of the internet bearing a curious reminiscence to a neural virus. Image by the Opte Project, courtesy of Flickr user curiouslee (CC-usage). Editor’s note: Has Turkmenistan come down with a bad case of the swine flu?  neweurasia’s Annasoltan investigates in this fifth part of a post series on Turkmen ...
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• Guest Post: Biofuel Technology Rising To The Forefront

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Submitted by John Daly of Oilprice.com Biofuel Technology Rising to the Forefront The recent revelations of a International Energy Administration whistleblower that the IEA may have distorted key oil projections under intense U.S. pressure is, if true (and whistleblowers rarely come forward to advance their ...
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• Turkmenistan: Influenzastan

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  Has Turkmenistan come down with a bad case of the swine flu? Annasoltan investigates that in a series of post on Turkmen healthcare.
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• Will Amazon’s Global Kindle Work in YOUR Country?

  
  Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority: 110
  Amazons Global Kindle Reader I heard that Amazon now has a global version of Kindle. I was disappointed to find this morning that the new version still will not work in my country. Since I’ve wanted one for some time, but have been waiting until they got a version that would work in my country, I checked out ...
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• Influenzastan, part 4: Googling for answers — and each other

  
  neweurasia.net — Authority: 498
  The internet is not sanitary: in the face of their governments obtuseness over the swine flu, Turkmens are turning to the internet for answers -- and for each other. Image by Flickr user larksflem (CC-usage). Editor’s note: Has Turkmenistan come down with a bad case of the swine flu?  neweurasia’s ...
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• Travellers’ notes on Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, or once again on Transparency International’s CPI

  
  neweurasia.net — Authority: 498
  Transparency International ’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2009 (CPI) again and again showed us that two out of five countries of our region are in the list of 10 most corrupt countries in the world. To say that I’m not surprised is to say nothing. Uzbekistan lost 8 positions and placed 174th (166th last year). ...
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• Transparency International’s 10 most corrupt countries in the world

  
  The Travel Blog by TravelPod — Authority: 419
  Every year, Transparency International makes a list of the most corrupt countries in the world. I searched through the blogs to find out more about each one, from a travelers’ perspective. 1. Somalia Hardiek at the border of Somalia “For those of you who don’t know (almost everybody, including me up ...
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• Tolkuchka Bazaar – The World’s Premier Carpet Marketplace

  
  Brilliant Tips from BrilliantTrips.com — Authority: 128
  Sprawled across the desert, just a few kilometers from Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, is an extensive market known as the Tolkuchka Bazaar. Selling a massive range of goods, the largest open air market in central Asia is most famous for selling large red Turkmen rugs. Basically, everything and anything of importance is ...
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• The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes

  
  The Lay Scientist — Authority: 541
  As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. An extraordinary game of geo-strategy is under way to lock in long-term agreements, notably in the energy sector. At a global level, the transit routes of future oil ...
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• Guest Post: The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Submitted by Philip de Leon of Oilprice.com The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. An extraordinary game of geo-strategy is under way to ...
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• Pipelines and rights

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 438
  The leaders of Turkmenistan dont need to worry about human rights -- they have a trump card : "There is a risk that the Turkmen regime is learning to play to Europes need for progress on human rights by making small cosmetic reforms that could be reversed in the future," the Global Witness report said. Western ...
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• Transparency International Ranks Corruption

  
  Eternal Remont: — Authority: 474
  You know how much I love rankings! Who made it in the top ten most corrupt from our region? Uzbekistan leads the way at lucky #7, while Turkmenistan tied for 8 with Iran, Haiti, Burundi, Guinea, and Equatorial Guinea. Turkmenistan, come on. Youre gonna let Uzbekistan steal the spot ahead of you? For shame. Who was ...
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• Influenzastan, part 3: paradoxes under the microscope

  
  neweurasia.net — Authority: 498
  The H5N1 virus is a far more dangerous variant of the H1N1 "swine flu". Yet, somehow, pigs have caused more terror in the citizens of Turkmenistan than chickens -- a terror seemingly beyond the control of one of the worlds most repressive regimes. Image courtesy of Flickr user Quiplash (CC-usage). Editor’s ...
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• Corruption Index today, Development Aid Reform tomorrow?

  
  The Kaufmann Governance Post — Authority: 100
  Transparency International (TI) , the international anti-corruption NGO, just released its annual corruption perceptions index (CPI).  No big surprises. This is no surprise.  Corruption does not tend to change dramatically from one year to the next.  Yet it is certainly worth reviewing the new data. ...
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• Corrupción en el mundo de hoy según Transparencia Internacional

  
  The Kaufmann Governance Post — Authority: 100
  Según el índice de corrupción anual de TI, o Transparencia Internacional, publicado hoy, Nueva Zelandia, Dinamarca, Singapur, Suecia, Suiza y Finlandia encabezan la lista de los países menos corruptos. El índice de TI incluye a 180 países y se basa en datos provistos por 10 organizaciones.  Como ...
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• Germany wont extend AWACS to Afghanistan-Guttenberg

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 719
  Source: Reuters BERLIN, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Germany will not extend for the time being the deployment of AWACS surveillance aircraft to Afghanistan when the current mandate expires in mid-December, Defence Minister ...
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