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Turkmenistan: End of Illusions?

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 @ 06:40 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Turkmenistan
Topics:: Media, Politics

Maciula analyzes the recent President Berdymukhammedov’s last speech in which he ordered that satellite TV dishes be removed from all Ashgabat houses.

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