Senior officials in Turkmenistan say the energy-rich Central Asian nation plans to sign a natural gas sales agreement with Afghanistan, Pakistan and India this month.
ALMATY (Reuters) - Turkmenistan has allowed a Red Cross delegation to visit one of its prisons for the first time since the reclusive Central Asian nation's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday. The Red Cross delegates, including a doctor, made a round of one of the penitentiaries of Turkmenistan's interior ministry last week, the Geneva-based ICRC said in a Russian-language statement posted on its website. It added that the delegation had also visited the construction site of a future prison. ...
Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader has proven he doesn't only win elections easily, coming first in a car race he wasn't even supposed to take part in.
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