European elections monitors declined to send a team to scrutinise the vote
because they said that there was simply no democracy in Turkmenistan but a
group of observers from the former Soviet Union whitewashed the election.
The Russian news agency RIA-Novosti quoted Sergei Lebedev, the head of the
former Soviet states’ observer mission, saying the Turkmen election had been
democratic.
Turkmenistan borders the Caspian Sea and holds the world’s fourth largest gas
reserves.
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