FILE - In this handout photo released by Turkmenistan Presidential Press Service, Turkmenistan's President-elect Serdar Berdymukhamedov, 40-year old son of Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly ...

ASHGABAT, TurkmenistanASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — Turkmenistan’s president allocated $1.5 billion to build a new city as the government cuts social spending and the country’s economy is weakened by low ...

ALMATY – Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most repressive and isolated countries, is stricken by widespread poverty. But the authorities are set to unveil a newly built $1.5 billion city, a project ...

By Ben Aris in Ashgabat The idea for the 1,800km Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline project ...

The president of Turkmenistan on Thursday officially inaugurated a vast, multibillion-dollar development hailed as the country’s first “smart city” and named after the president’s father, who ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan’s ...

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