<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Turkmenistan</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><description>Turkmenistan</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Turkmen Tome Gets Foreign Aid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45332-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45332-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Sicily, a reception was held recently to launch the Italian translation of a controversial book written by Saparmurad Niyazov, dictator and "president for life" of Turkmenistan. In Amsterdam, a Dutch translation of the book was unveiled at a party in a historic 17th-century house.]]></description><author> Peter Finn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karzai Powerless As Warlords Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4484-2003May17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4484-2003May17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite military and financial support from the U.S. and its allies, the Afghan government has been unable to assert its authority over the country.]]></description><author> April Witt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Dribs and Drabs' of Information Keep Turkmen Plot in Shadows]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47867-2003Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47867-2003Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In a remote nation bordering on Iran and Afghanistan close to the newest U.S. foreign military bases, an obsessive dictator and his political rivals are playing out a tense melodrama with the future of the oil- and gas-rich young country at stake.]]></description><author> Robert G. Kaiser</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkmen Authorities Seek Moscow's Help]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3703-2003Jan2.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3703-2003Jan2.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ASHA top Russian official met with Turkmen authorities Thursday over claims by President Saparmurad Niyazov that an alleged attempt on his life was organized and financed in Russia.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WASHINGTON IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61186-2002Dec31.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61186-2002Dec31.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Civilian Raises Reduced <br>President Bush yesterday ordered the federal government to give scaled-back pay raises to most civilian workers and asked Congress to approve pay increases for federal judges.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkmen Opposition Leader Jailed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42135-2002Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42135-2002Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President  Saparmurad Niyazov Thursday announced  the arrest of a leading opponent, Boris Shikhmuradov, who is accused of masterminding a coup attempt last month.]]></description><author> Sebastian Alison</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Businessman Jailed  In Turkmenistan Plot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52452-2002Dec13.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52452-2002Dec13.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[MOSCOW, Dec. 13 -- Leonid Komarovsky, a Russian journalist-turned-American businessman, told his family he was going to Turkmenistan to set up a business importing liquor from the Czech Republic to the isolated Central Asian dictatorship. Instead, he ended up in a Turkmen prison, accused by the government of taking part in a Nov. 25 assassination attempt on President  Saparmurad Niyazov.]]></description><author> Susan B. Glasser</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[World In Brief]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39194-2002Nov25.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39194-2002Nov25.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Al Qaeda Militant Killed in Algeria <br>    ALGIERS --  An Islamic militant killed by Algerian security forces two months ago has been identified as a man Washington considers to be a top al Qaeda operative in Africa, Algeria's...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Father of All Turkmen' Exhorts to Nationhood]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36723-2002Jul7.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36723-2002Jul7.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Turkmenistan is the country that Turkmenbashi the Great built  not yet a great country, but greatly unusual.]]></description><author> Robert G. Kaiser</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Trade Relations Sought for 8 Countries]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3229-2002Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3229-2002Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration, already seeking normal trade status for Russia, wants Congress to allow eight former Soviet republics -- including two Central Asian countries with poor human rights records -- to graduate this year from trade restrictions imposed during Communist times.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Agency to Buy Wheat Overseas to Feed Afghans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21358-2001Oct31.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21358-2001Oct31.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Agency for International Development announced yesterday that it is providing $11.2 million to the United Nations and other agencies to buy nearly 30,000 tons of wheat in Kazakhstan and nearby countries for the Afghan feeding program.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afghan Neighbors to Help Aid Flow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47834-2001Oct24.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47834-2001Oct24.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two key countries on Afghanistan's northern border have promised a top U.N. delegation they will accelerate the movement of relief supplies to help avert a grim humanitarian crisis emerging from drought and war.]]></description><author> Doug Struck</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Engagement In 10 Time Zones]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38658-2000Sep28.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38658-2000Sep28.html?nav=rss_world/asia/centralasia/turkmenistan</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:05:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Gen. Anthony C. Zinni of the Pentagon's Central Command took on tasks of building government to government relationships that had been previously handled by civilians.]]></description><author> Dana Priest</author></item></channel></rss>