Articles on the tag «Turkmenistan»

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, collectively Central Asia, are countries about which most Europeans know little. Lying at the heart of Eurasia, they may become a new object of strategic rivalry between global and regional powers.

Once a forgotten backwater, the Caspian Sea has become the chessboard of great powers and newcomers, with pipelines carving invisible frontlines across water and land. Oil, gas, and ambition collide here, turning calm waters into a potential powder keg.