Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

...revenue from gas exports are expected to further strengthen the country's fiscal and external positions," the statement said. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has carefully opened his isolated desert nation to courtship by foreign...

In this article: International Monetary Fund, Turkmenistan, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Russia, Cash flow, Revenue, Gazprom, and Saparmurat Niyazov

...December 2006 death of Saparmurat Niyazov, the autocract who had ruled since before the 1991 Soviet collapse. His successor, President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, has repealed some of Niyazov's most idiosyncratic policies, including banning...

In this article: Peace Corps, Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, United States, Natural gas, American University in Bulgaria, American University of Central Asia, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Russia

Ramadan amnesty granted President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has granted amnesties for 1,284 prisoners to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, state newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan said yesterday. At least 21 of the prisoners were...

In this article: Cannabis, NATO, US, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, Durban, and Parasitic twin

...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 a "foreign policy priority" for his desert nation on the...

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

In this photo taken on June 15, 2009, fireworks burst above a portrait of Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov during a concert marking the opening of a new resort on the Caspian Sea coast...

In this article: Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Natural gas, Rukhnama, Russia, Caspian Sea, and Europe

...away from the isolationist policies of Saparmurat Niyazov, whose two decades of iron rule ended with his death Dec. 21. Interim President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, the presumed winner of Sunday's vote, had made the granting of public...

In this article: Turkmenistan, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Saparmurat Niyazov, Internet cafes, Russia, Democracy, Natural gas, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Commonwealth of Independent States

...health care, ensuring adequate pensions and boosting agriculture. It could be Iowa -- if it weren't Turkmenistan. Acting President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, 49, will almost certainly win when the Central Asian country's citizens go...

In this article: Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, Turkmenistan, Natural gas, and Vladimir Putin

...throughout the country, including a golden one in the capital of Ashgabat that rotated to follow the sun's path. Interim President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov is promising to continue in Niyazov's path and his program mentions no...

In this article: Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Natural gas, Soviet Union, Democracy, Revenue, and Rashid Meredov

...of candidates for the presidential ballot. But the chief of Turkmenistan's elections office pledged his allegiance to the interim president, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov (pronounced Gur-ban-GOOLY Berdy-moo-kha-MED-off). Murad Kariyev, the...

In this article: Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan, Avdy Kuliyev, Ovezgeldy Atayev, Natural gas, and Radicalism

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- As health minister of Turkmenistan, he presided over a medical system regarded as one of the world's worst. Now Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov is suddenly head of the country. Little is known about the man who became...

In this article: Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan, Natural gas, Revenue, Vremya Novostei, Amnesty International, and World Health Organization