Turkmenistan

General Sites	Country Overview	Online News
State & Politics	Foregin Affairs & National Security	Laws
Human Rights	Media Situation	Economy
Oil&Gas,Pipeline	History	Ethnic Groups
Language	Religion	Culture
Environment	Geography	Travel

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GENERAL SITES

• Turkmenistan Resource Page - by EurasiaNet.org
  
• Embassy of Turkmenistan in Washington, DC
  

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COUNTRY OVERVIEW

• CIA World Factbooks - Trukmenistan
  1. Factbook 2000
     
  
  
• UNDP Human Development Report - Turkmenistan
  1. 1996 Report
     
  2. Summaries of National Human Development Reports 1995 - Turkmenistan
     
  
  
• Trukmenistan - A Country Study - US Library of Congress
  
• Nations in Transit - Trukmenistan - from Freedom House's 1998 annual report
  
  

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ONLINE NEWS

• Turkmenbashi - in Russian
  

   International Press & News Agencies

• Washington Post/AP - Turkmenistan
  
  
  
  
  

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STATE & POLITICS

• Turkmenistan Elections Watch - by EurasiaNet
  
• Mejlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan - information from the PARLINE database
  
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members in Turkmenistan
  
• Saparmurad Nijazov
  1. NUPI Database - Nijazov's short biography
  2. Danko's pages: Turkmenbashi Cult - by Danko Taborosi
     
     

  
  

• Institution-Building and Decay in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan - by Alexander Cooley (December 1997)
  

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FOREIGN AFFIARS & NATIONAL SECURITY

• Formation of the Foreign Policies of Turkmenistan - by Murad Esenov (1994, in Russian)
  

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LAWS

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HUMAN RIGHTS

• Human Rights in Turkmenistan
  
  
  
• U.S. Department of State - Turkmenistan Human Rights Report
  1. for 1999(Feb 25, 2000)
     
  2. for 1998(Feb 26, 1999)
     
  3. for 1997(Jan 30, 1998)
     
  4. for 1996
     

  
  

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MEDIA SITUATION

• IFEX Action Alert Service - Turkmenistan
  

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ECONOMY

• BISNIS Commercial Overview - Turkmenistan
  
• Country Commercial Guide: Turkmenistan - by the U.S. Embassy, Ashgabat
  
  1. FY 2000 Guide (1999)
     
  2. FY 1999 Guide (Aug 1998)
• Foreign Investment in Turkmenistan - Embassy of Turkmenistan,Washington,DC
  
• US Department of Energy / Country Analysis Brief - Turkmenistan
• Turkmenistan - Recent Economic Developments - IMF Staff Country Reports No. 98/81
  
• Turkmenistan : Economic Policy and Trade Practices ,1995
  
• All Rails Lead to Turkmenistan: The Development of Rail Lines in Central Asia - by Abbas Shermukhamedov (Caspian Cross Roads ,Vol 2/ No 2/ Fall 96)
  
  

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OIL & GAS , PIPELINE PROBLEM

• Turkmenistan: Pipeline Dream - by Michael Ochs
  
• Caspian Infrastructures: Roads, Rail and Pipelines - Turkmenistan - by Julia Nanay (December 1997)
  

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HISTORY

• History of Turkmenistan - by Pankratov Viacheslav
  

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ETHNIC GROUPS IN TURKMENISTAN

• The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles - Index of Peoples in Turkmenistan
  

  
  

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LANGUAGE

• UCLA Language Materials Project - Turkmen Profile
  
• Turkmen Language - Russian alphabet + extra characters
  
  

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RELIGION

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CULTURE

• Turkmens International Homepage - by Farzad Marjani
  
• Magtumguly's Poetry - in Russian
  

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ENVIRONMENT

• State of the Environment Turkmenistan 1998
  

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GEOGRAPHY

• Global Gazetteer - Maps of 2132 towns and cities in Turkmenistan
  

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TRAVEL

• Embassy of Turkmenistan,Washington,DC
  

Visa Information
Tourism in Turkmenistan

• Travel Document Systems - Turkmenistan
  
• DHL - Turkmenistan
  
• FedEx - Turkmenistan
  
  

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