Search: Central Asia,Turkmenistan (12 materials)

 

Turkmenistan’s Presidential Elections: What to Expect from the New Head of State?

... domestic policy. This article is an attempt to forecast the new president’s agenda by looking back to the presidential elections of the past. Serdar Berdimuhamedow’s Rise to Office Grigory Lukyanov, Nubara Kulieva, Artemy Mironov: Turkey’s Policy in Central Asia: Are Ambitions Well-Founded? Serdar’s father, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, was in power since 2006. He won the latest election of 2017, securing 97% of the votes. The Constitution of Turkmenistan stipulated that the next election was to be held in 2024, but Berdimuhamedow announced an early vote in February 2022, marking the end of his 15 years in office. He specifically emphasized that he did not intend to run for president, instead ...

06.04.2022

The Paradoxes of Social and Economic Development in Central Asia

... relatively well-developed railway network connecting all its regions. In other Central Asian states, transport between regions relied on transit through neighbouring countries. In Uzbekistan, the only railway connection from Tashkent to Termez was through Turkmenistan. Andrey Kortunov, Marlene Laruelle: Envisioning Opportunities for U.S.-Russia Cooperation in and with Central Asia In the almost 30 years since the collapse of the USSR, Central Asian countries have built several thousand kilometres of domestic and international railway lines. Yet serious problems remain. Turkmenistan completed the consolidation of its ...

31.01.2020

Prospects for the Fight against Extremism and Terrorism in the Central Asian Region

... terrorism, noting the importance of engaging civil society and the media to increase the impact. Specialised training was also considered, including on the use of modern technologies to mount a timely response against potential threats. All this shows that Turkmenistan is adopting a more aggressive antiterrorist policy. Forecast Central Asian countries have recently stepped up the fight against terrorism and extremism, as can be seen from the lack of overt terrorist activities in the last three years. This means they need to pursue closer cooperation with one another and with ...

30.01.2020

Envisioning Opportunities for U.S.-Russia Cooperation in and with Central Asia

The Working Group on the Future of U.S.-Russia Relations’ Report Central Asia stands out as a comparatively “nontoxic” region where there are limited, but not insignificant, opportunities for U.S.-Russia collaboration both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks: in the space industry, civil security, job-creation ...

27.04.2019

Post-Soviet Turkmenistan: A Little-Known Present and an Uncertain Future

... materialized. Unlike Tajikistan, Turkmenistan did not have a large number of intellectuals. In addition, the country lacked a unified national identity. In this respect, Turkmenistan is unique even against the background of the remnants of tribalism in other Central Asian states. Turkmenistan is a “nation” of tribes [1] . The key role among them is played by the Tekke tribe from Ahal, which controls the territory around the capital (the first President of the Republic of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov [1991–2006],...

10.02.2017

State Department speech reflects growing security risks in Central Asia

... official Daniel Rosenblum signaled a shift in the direction of American policy in Central Asia, reflecting some critical economic, political and security developments in the area. The June 9th speech comes after an unprecedented five-country tour of Central Asia-- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan-- by Secretary of State Kerry last November. In the same address to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year, Rosenblum detailed the usual multifold approach to Central Asia— the promotion of state sovereignty,...

18.07.2016

Overcoming Forgetfulness: How Central Asian Societies and Elites Perceive the Great Patriotic War

... of course as a symbol for maintaining healthy relations with Russia. widerimage.reuters.com World War Two veteran, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan *** What will happen after the demise of veterans and the final transfer of power to the post-Soviet elite? Will ... ... extent of political and symbolic nature already now – remain in demand within the new ideological constructs? Russia and Central Asia should cooperate in preserving the War memory, chiefly through feature films, documentaries and TV series in Central ...

12.05.2015

Consequences of the Ukrainian Crisis for Central Asia: Shock and Awe

... be”, cannot but fuel phobias and speculation, especially in countries where Russian-speaking minorities live in compact settlements. akorda.kz Dina Malysheva: Russia and Turkey in Central Asia: Partnership or Rivalry? The official statements of the Central Asian states on the situation in Ukraine reflect their different levels of awareness of the vulnerability caused by such developments. The opposite ends of the spectrum are represented by Turkmenistan, which has not emphasized its attitude to what was happening, and Uzbekistan that stressed its commitment to refraining “from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state,” ...

26.03.2015

In Search of Support Points: Iran in Central Asia

.... The second objective is to derive real economic benefits from trade and economic cooperation . In this regard, Iran and the Central Asian states have common interests. For example, Iran has built the Tejen-Sarahs-Mashhad railway line , providing Central Asian states with access to the ports of the Persian Gulf, the markets of the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, which have become an important source of foreign exchange earnings for Turkmenistan. There are even more ambitious projects, such as plans to link the North-South Transport Corridor from Kazakhstan through Turkmenistan to Iran’s Golestan Province via the Iranian railway network, opening the way to the ports of the ...

18.11.2014

Succession as an option?

... former president of Turkmenistan who died in 2006 still being a president. To understand Nazarbaev’s and Karimov’s concerns one need to take a closer look in Niyazov’s case and remember some theoretical principles of politics. Case of Turkmenistan During his presidency Saparmurat Niyazov formed a “cult” of himself and a strongly depending on his will system of governance. Though he once publicly spoke against lifetime presidency, as some other Central Asian presidents did, he got his lifetime occupation in 1999, when a “Narodniy Soviet” (People’s Council) - an institute he created to control the state bypassing the parliament - gave him a right to be a head of the state with ...

19.07.2013
 

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