Turkmenistan
Ashgabat and New Delhi strengthen economic cooperation
June 16, 2010by Roman Muzalevsky For more than 15 years, the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI) project, which proposes to deliver gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India via Afghanistan, has remained an elusive scheme. Backed by the West and the Asian Development...
Nabucco pipeline focus of Vienna roundtable
March 07, 2010The German-based Eurasia Transition Group organized a roundtable discussion in Vienna today to discuss Turkmenistan's possible role in the Nabucco gas pipeline, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reports. Nabucco is planned to transport natural gas from Turkey...
Kremlin renews its focus on the contest for Turkmen gas
January 04, 2010By Vladimir Socor Russia Resuming Gas Imports From Turkmenistan on a Small Scale On December 22 in Ashgabat, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his counterpart in Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov witnessed the signing of documents on the...
Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement Signed in Ankara
July 14, 2009By Saban Kardas On July 13 the Nabucco transit countries removed an important obstacle for the strategic pipeline project. Attending a high profile meeting hosted by Turkey, the prime ministers of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey inked...
Economic Crisis Threatens to Kill Off the CIS
June 25, 2009By Paul Goble The economic crisis in the Russian Federation and other post-Soviet states may finally lead to the complete collapse of the Commonwealth of Independent States because, in the absence of agreement on a common plan of action, the number...