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Author: | Rashid, A. |
Title: | Power play |
Journal: | Far Eastern Economic Review
1997 : APR 7, VOL. 160:15, p. 22-24 |
Index terms: | ASIA OIL INDUSTRY GAS INDUSTRY |
Language: | eng |
Abstract: | A new version of Central Asia's 19th-century Great Game is being fought over oil and gas. Russia and America are sparring, while energy-hungry Asia looks on. The newly built marble palace of Turkmenistan's President Suparmurat Niyasov stands proud in the centre of Ashkhabad. But all around it are poverty , urban decay and squalor. Just behind the high walls of the $60 million extravagance - it's the President's fourth palace - Turkmen women hawk secondhand shoes, tomato paste and family heirlooms, just to make ends meet. |
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