Turkmenistan News

The Irish Times takes no responsibility for the content or availability of other websites A takeover offer for Dragon Oil that values the company at more than €2.6 billion is final, the exploration firm said today. Emirates National Oil Company...

Competition – or development – of EU's eastern gas supply routes has intensified this year. Both EU/U.S. backed Nabucco and Russia's South Stream have made deals to guarantee realization of new pipelines until 2015. The EU’s new “southern corridor” -...

Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com and Fox News Channel, the left wing impulse has been to paint James O'Keefe III and Hannah Giles , the creators of the undercover video, as the beneficiaries of right-wing blood money. O'Keefe is a long-time right-wing...

The United States criticised Turkmenistan yesterday after Turkmen students of a US-funded university were denied permission to leave the ex-Soviet country and return to school. Turkmenistan has barred more than 150 students enrolled at American University of Central Asia in...

Turkmen president and Eurasia Group, [1] said that amid the global financial crisis, Turkmenistan demonstrates high GDP growth, has increased investments in the national economy and trade turnover and has ensured the stability of the national currency, Turkmenistan.ru reported.

Dubai state-controlled Enoc has agreed to buy the 48 per cent of Dragon that it does not already own in a deal that values the Dublin and London-listed oil explorer at some €2.64 billion. Dragon said the 455 pence/share offer...

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and later prohibited from traveling to the American University of Bulgaria, reportedly have been placed on a five-year travel blacklist, an opposition news site is reporting. According to Chrono-tm.org, three male students attempted to leave Turkmenistan through the...

Human rights groups are calling for top-level Western and Russian diplomatic intervention to halt the politically motivated prosecution of an environmental activist in Turkmenistan. Political and economic considerations make it unlikely that such outreach will be forthcoming, however.