Nabucco Gaining Traction

On his first tour of the Central Asian region, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon pushed for Turkmenistan to improve its human rights record, stating that the UN would work more closely with the isolationist and authoritarian country in the future. To be sure, rights have somewhat improved under President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov more recently, with the idea of allowing political opposition parties having been mooted in February. However, this has yet to be put into effect, and the media continues to be repressed by the

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