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Progress in Science and Industry – a Task for International Cooperation

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:04:42 +0000

Prof. em. Dr. Hanno Schaumburg, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany h.schaumburg@tu-harburg.de After the perestroika in 1990 a significant decay in science and industrial production took place in all successor states of the Soviet union – mainly because of poor financing and inadequate management from government and industry. For many years only a few industrial products [...]

Our Tolerance for Fashionable Deception

admin — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:54:34 +0000

Ben Tanosborn Nothing appears as ugly as unmasked raw propaganda, or seems as fashionable as well-crafted deception. Yet, the catwalk for both forms of propaganda is one and the same, deception wearing the most titillating togs provided by the top fashion house, the House of Public Relations. And the deceptive PR isn’t limited to [...]

Photo Essay: Presidential Elections in Turkmenistan

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:20:04 +0000

nCa Photo Essay Ashgabat, 15 February 2012 (nCa) — The presidential elections held in Turkmenistan 12 February 2012 have attracted mostly negative publicity in the western media. It was predictable. Hardly anything else can be expected from the media that is cocooned in its own prejudices. The cliches are true after all: The beauty is [...]

Presidential Elections in Turkmenistan: Nation goes to polls (Updated 4 pm, 13 Feb) (second update at 14:30, 15 February 2012)

admin — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:57:39 +0000

nCa Report with a photo essay on elections (To be updated with more photos later today) (Second Update at 14:30, 15 February 2012 – Photo essay published separately at this URL: http://newscentralasia.net/2012/02/15/photo-essay-presidential-elections-in-turkmenistan/) Update (4 pm, 13 Feb) — The central election commission has announced that preliminary counting of vote shows that Berdymuhamedov has secured 97.14% [...]

US$ 1.2 million loan to Turkmen logistics company

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:28 +0000

EBRD loan will help DGT Logistics invest in equipment and expand fleet of trucks The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) continues to support the development of the private sector in Turkmenistan with a US$ 1.2 million loan to DGT Logistics Turkmenistan. The company is one of the leading private companies providing cargo transport [...]

Presidential elections in Turkmenistan – Looking from a different angle

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:01:36 +0000

Tariq Saeedi Ashgabat, 4 February 2012 — The presidential elections in Turkmenistan will take place in less than 10 days from now. Observers and analysts have raised several objections on the whole process: All the seven candidates running against President Berdymuhamedov are weak and obscure There is no opposition candidate The election manifesto of all [...]

Президентские выборы в Туркменистане – Взгляд под другим углом

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:57:28 +0000

Тарик Саиди Ашгабат, 4 февраля 2012 — Менее чем через 10 дней в Туркменистане пройдут президентские выборы. Наблюдатели и аналитики подняли ряд вопросов, касающихся избирательного процесса: Все семь кандидатов против кандидатуры президента Бердымухамедова кажутся слабыми и неясными Нет кандидата от оппозиции Предвыборные программы всех кандидатов выглядят плохой копией манифеста Бердымухамедова Это ненастоящие выборы, а только [...]

America’s Pacific Century!!

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:38:31 +0000

General Mirza Aslam Beg, Former Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan During the 1970’s, Brzezinski, the US strategist, forecasting the break-up of the Soviet Union, expounded the concept of US Unipolarity: “How America manages Eurasia is critical, Eurasia is the globe’s largest continent and is geopolitically axial. A power that dominates Eurasia would almost automatically gain [...]

80-year-old Europeans will triple by 2050

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:35:40 +0000

Clemente Ferrer The European Parliament (EP) should officially agree with family alliances in order to tackle the unstoppable demographic decline. The European Union (EU) is seeking to address the birth plight that the Old Continent is suffering from. Awareness about this family crisis and thus the urgency to increase birth rates has been raised. Various [...]

Speakers unveil latest oil and gas developments in the Arctic

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:32:53 +0000

The oil and gas industry’s key players will present critical new technologies and commercial opportunities available in the offshore Arctic, at the Arctic Region Oil & Gas Conference in Norway this month. Recent news about Norway’s Ministry of Energy receiving requests from 37 companies to be included in the country’s 22nd licensing round reflects the [...]