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Eurasia
March 2, 2018 www.intellinews.com I Page 24
cards; ending the era of discounted gas, water and electricity prices for citizens in Turkmenistan; making contributions to Turkmenistan’s Pension Fund by business owners mandatory from 1 January; and even imposing more fines on car owners and Turkmen fortune tellers, whose occult services are popular in Turkmenistan.
The dubious spending habits of Turkmen
President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov do
not help address the economic difficulties. The president cleared the recent launch of the first golf course in Turkmenistan, which opened
as a designer 18-hole attraction in a country where golf is virtually unheard of. However, seeing Polimex’s situation, it is doubtful that the company that built the golf course managed to receive full payment for its work.