Central Asia-Caucasus Institute: Stakes nad implications of construction boom in Turkmenistan
AKIPRESS.COM - Central Asia-Caucasus InstituteThe John Hopkins UniversityBy Sebastien Peyrouse (07/09/2008 issue of the CACI Analyst)Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Turkmen capital Ashgabat, regarded as a new Dubai, has been being remodelled in line with the first president’s, Saparmurat Niyazov’s, taste for giant-scale projects...