turkmenistan

My feelings would be the same if the other party had been Russia, Malaysia, Turkmenistan or Canada.

The rainiest month in Ashgabat (the Turkmenistan capital) is February, with 40 mm (less than two inches).

The editor of a newspaper in Turkmenistan that they speak to turns out to be a member of parliament.

Do you have any specific example of Turkmenistan investing huge amount of money in foreign business just for bragging rights?

If it were built, it would probably have very low efficiency and Turkmenistan cant afford to build low efficiency power plants.

It's in the middle of nowhere, and Turkmenistan is already awash in cheap energy.

Kazakhstan is nothing like Turkmenistan in this regard.

Well, Turkmenistan is black box when looked from outside, I wouldn't jump to conclusions based on couple minutes of Google search:-) Our government is paranoid about money leaving the country.

The ex-soviet central Asian republics are packed full of secret police -- until 2006, Turkmenistan boasted one of the world's most famous totalitarian regimes under his Amazingself-for-life President Niyazov, and although his successor has made some reforms, things haven't gotten much better since Niyazov's death.

Take this story and replace United States with a "third world" country such as Turkmenistan or North Korea.

My original point was "No, you can't make millions by getting on radar here in Turkmenistan.

Like if I add the "7100 miles west" vector to the "California" point, I get Turkmenistan.

To the east there are some Turkic countries with whom the Turks feel a spiritual connection, starting with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.

That newspaper has a picture of Turkmenistan's president on it's front page every day.

I submit the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake in what was then the Soviet Union and is now Turkmenistan.