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Gas Stove Poisoning

With the onset of cold weather this January, there have been frequent cases of gas poisoning among Turkmenistan’s population. In Ashgabat alone, seven families died from gas fumes in January. The cause of the poisoning was malfunctions in the Iranian-made

21 Apr 06

Plight of Uzbek Minority Worsens

Turkmenistan is a multi-ethnic country and according to various estimates has up to 500,000 ethnic Uzbeks – making them the biggest minority at about nine per cent of the total population. Frontier regions in the north and northeast are densely populated

21 Apr 06
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