The closest thing to hell on Earth lies in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert ... and natural resources during the Soviet Union was kept secret, meaning many official documents were inaccessible ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ... Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Its leaders through the years — either dictators or secretary generals ...

Turkmenistan is the southernmost republic of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the loose federation created at the end of 1991 by most of the post-Soviet states. Its longest border is ...

A Soviet citizen is defined as a person born in one of the 15 states which seceded from the Soviet Union during its dissolution in December 1991. Persons born in one of these 15 states after 1991 are ...

The five Central Asian nations -- Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan -- held their first summit with the European Union on April 4. Speaking at the event, Shavkat ...

Tajikistan and Turkmenistan Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan Only part of the persons born in one of the 15 states of the former Soviet Union are included in the municipal population ...

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