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What It’s Like at the Real-Life ‘Gates of Hell’ in Turkmenistan
Some sources say it was formed in 1971 and was set alight immediately by Soviet geologists, but Turkmenistan geologists claim it formed in the ’60s and wasn’t ignited until the 1980s.
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COMMENT: Turkmenistan, the isolationist black sheep of the five ‘Stans family
In 1997 Ashgabat faced an existential crisis when Russia’s Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin abruptly ordered state-owned Gazprom to shut down Turkmenistan’s gas exports via the Soviet-era ...
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A relic of Soviet-era experiments, this hellish crater has been on fire since 1971
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Turkmenistan calls snap election to replace strongman leader
No election in post-Soviet Turkmenistan has been considered genuinely competitive. While eight candidates ran against Berdymukhamedov in the last election in 2017, all expressed support for his ...
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Turkmenistan Takes Home First Ever Olympic Medal
This is the seventh Olympic Games that Turkmenistan has competed in as its own independent nation. Prior to 1996, Turkmen athletes competed on teams with the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the ...