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Turkmenistan: Power, Politics and Petro-Authoritarianism

Annette Bohr · Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs), Russia and Eurasia Programme · 2016

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Annette Bohr
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2026-09-01

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DisputedBohr argues that Turkmenistan is a petro-authoritarian state whose hydrocarbon export revenue funds the security services and patronage networks that sustain the regime; cross-national studies dispute whether resource wealth generally causes authoritarianism.EstablishedSince 1993 the population of Turkmenistan has been supplied with gas, electricity, water and salt free of charge, within limits, a subsidy system introduced by Niyazov.