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1. Governance/Communism since independence.
2. Economy / Industrialization isn't being improved as I can understand it
3. Restrictions on Communication
A few things I think are wrong, cotton.... exporting raw cotton, then what buying clothes from abroad that's a no brainer... bad politics.
A country needs to wary their agriculture much more than they're doing. I would say food is more important.
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Turkey sees the acute energy market competition as an opportunity to establish itself both as an influential energy state and as a central Eurasian power. In this regard, choosing Turkmenistan as the site of one of the first state visits by the new Turkish president was not accidental.
carnegie.ru
And the news channel Turkmenistan leaders are trying to ban:
A diplomat at the Turkish Embassy in Turkmenistan died in early July.
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