Turkmenistan Lifts Ban on Opera and Circuses
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Reversing a ban imposed in 2001, President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said that the Central Asian nation deserved to have the artistic performances, The Associated Press reported on Sunday.
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Turkmenistan celebrating its independence holiday with a huge parade in honour of President Niyazov.
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ASHGABAT. Feb 18 (Interfax) - Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has said work will continue to switch ministries and government agencies of the financial-economic bloc to one computer network.
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The Turkish government says it will change a controversial law restricting freedom of expression.
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Arts & entertainment: Government bringing forward new laws in effort to save exhibition put at risk by row with Russia
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Turkey's parliament resoundingly approved on Saturday controversial constitutional changes aimed at lifting a ban on female students wearing the Muslim headscarf in universities, the assembly's speaker said.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube Friday, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said, two days after a court ordered the Web site blocked because of videos that allegedly insulted the founder of modern Turkey.
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Polling stations were nearly empty yesterday in elections for Turkmenistan&#39;s rubber-stamp Parliament, forcing officials to carry ballot boxes door to door in this nation ruled by a former Soviet Communist boss who has been declared president-for-life.
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Britain on Saturday lifted the last livestock restrictions imposed after last month&#39;s foot and mouth outbreak after experts said the disease had been &quot;eradicated&quot; from the country.
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Iran's suspension from international soccer was temporarily lifted by FIFA, and the country will be allowed to defend its Asian Games soccer title.
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Uefa lifts the suspension on European and international games being played in Israel.
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Don Giovanni and the Big Top are returning to Turkmenistan.
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Russia has lifted its embargo on Polish plant products, ending a long-running dispute that was blocking a new EU-Russia agreement, Poland's agriculture ministry said on Saturday.
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Turkey's parliament voted Saturday to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities, handing victory to the Islamist-rooted ruling party as tens of thousands protested the deeply controversial move.
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Turkmenistan voted for a new president on Sunday in its first contested election, but one virtually certain to be won by an aide to the country's former authoritarian leader, who died in December.
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Britain's overseas cultural arm, the British Council, reopened its Saint Petersburg office on Monday in defiance of a Russian ban.
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U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said  on Thursday the European Union's decision to abandon a trade  pact with the reclusive Central Asian state of Turkmenistan was  a "landmark move against tyranny."