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Turkmenistan: Ashgabat Buys Russian Weapons

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 @ 11:50 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Turkmenistan
Topics:: International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

Peter reports on a Russian arms deal to sell Turkmenistan six BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launchers.

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