Word: turkmenistan
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Phillips Professor of Archeology and Ethnology C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky is leading a team made up of Harvard graduate students, along with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania, Pakistan, and Spain, which will excavate an area near the Turkmenistan border...
Viktor Yushchenko got a nasty New Year's Eve surprise. On Dec. 31, Ukraine's new President-elect learned that Turkmenistan was abruptly cutting its natural gas supplies unless Ukraine agreed to pay more in the coming year. It only reopened the taps on January 3, after Yuri Boiko, head of Naftogaz, Ukraine's state oil and gas company, agreed to a $500 million price hike. Ukraine gets more than 75% of its natural gas from Turkmenistan and Russia, and many Ukrainians saw the hand of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who opposed Yushchenko's election, in the sudden price increase...
From a geological perspective, former Commonwealth of Independent States members like Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan look like great places to buy up oil. There’s plenty of it, infrastructure is reasonable and Islamic separatist movements are not as formidably organized as they are in Saudi Arabia or Iraq. Then again, these places are political and environmental disaster zones in their own rights, replete with legacy pollution from the Soviet era and rapacious governments that are only too keen to make you pay for their mistakes. One typical experience this summer had me constructing a financial model to price...
...billion, Harvard’s net assets at the end of fiscal year 2003 eclipsed the gross domestic products of Bolivia and Oman but remained just short of Paraguay and Turkmenistan...
...University of California at Berkeley with a degree in economics in 1998. He soon found a job at a brokerage firm—but around Christmas of that same year, Okhotin says, he abandoned this career in order to address the plight of Shageldy Atakov, a religious prisoner in Turkmenistan...