Soviet Union

He was Saparmurat Niyazov, the local Communist party boss who had taken over as president when the country gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and created a personality cult unrivalled anywhere else in the world,...

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Round variant of the emblem, used from 1992 until 2003. The coat of arms of Turkmenistan was created after Turkmenistan gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The eight-point green starburst (known as the star of Rub El...

In this article: Turkmenistan, Starburst, Bread, Islam, and Akhal-Teke

...of enormous amounts of energy and more neutrons capable of splitting other atoms. Former Soviet Union (FSU) - Independent states that used to make up the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), including Russia, Estonia, Latvia,...

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...don't have a common border any more, so this is practically impossible). Even though it is the old Soviet Union that has lost territories such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, Iran has called for an equal division of the...

In this article: Caspian Sea, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Volga River, Baku, Turkmenistan, and Caspian Seal

...working. " The oil field was off Cheleken, on the Caspian. "It was like the part of Turkmenistan that the former Soviet Union had forgot, and probably God had forgot as well. No restaurants. No trees ..." More recently he was developing...

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...relations are the relations between Turkmenistan and Pakistan. Relations between the two countries were established after Turkmenistan became independent from the Soviet Union. Pakistan was one of the first countries to recognise the...

In this article: Pakistan and Turkmenistan

...supplies delivered through Ukraine over a price dispute. Turkmenistan, the former Soviet Union's second-biggest gas producer, is trying to loosen Russia's grip on export routes. Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said Europe is...

In this article: Romania, Turkmenistan, Russia, European Union, Traian Basescu, Caspian Sea, Europe, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Natural gas, and Saparmurat Niyazov

Iran-Turkmenistan relations Iran and Turkmenistan have had relations since Turkmenistan's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Iran was the first nation to recognize Turkmenistan as an independent nation. Since then, the two countries...

In this article: Turkmenistan, Iran, Joint venture, Natural gas, Caspian Sea, Tehran, and Russia

...of Muslims were Sunni. The Azerbaijanis, who were Shiite, were one major exception. The largest groups of Muslims in the Soviet Union resided in the Central Asian republics (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) and...

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