Gas to Europe: Between Turkey, Russia and the Deep Black Sea
While Turkey and Russia plow along with natural gas pipelines north and south of the Black Sea, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Romania have decided that the shortest and fastest distance between two points is...
View ArticleLet Them Eat Grass
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has come out with a second volume of his seminal work Medicinal Plants of Turkmenistan, turkmenistan.ru reports. With this new book, Berdymukhamedov, a trained...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan to Cede Gas Network to Moscow
It looks like Moscow isn't interested in buying part of Kyrgyzstan’s gas infrastructure. It wants all of it. After a week of dangerous energy shortages in Kyrgyzstan, which continued to leave thousands...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Approves Sale of Gas Network to Russia
Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted to pass a controversial deal to sell the national gas company to Russian giant Gazprom for the knockdown price of $1 on December 11, local media reported.Under the deal...
View ArticleGazprom’s Power Play in Armenia
Gazprom, the Russian energy goliath, reportedly continues its shopping spree in Armenia; this time around, setting its eyes on the Caucasus country's power-distribution grid. Such a buy would get...
View ArticleAfter Gazprom Takeover, Southern Kyrgyzstan Marks 24th Day Without Gas
When Russian state energy giant Gazprom took control of Kyrgyzstan’s gas network last month, the prime minister called the transfer a “historic event.” Gazprom chairman Aleksey Miller promised his...
View ArticleGazprom Bails on Buying Central Asian Gas
Moscow’s sanctions-struck energy giant Gazprom has announced it is no longer interested in buying Central Asian gas, leaving Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan dependent on exports to China. Contractually,...
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