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Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov grimaces during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Making changes: Turkmenistan's President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov

Ivan Sekretarev

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By News wires

 13 July 2009 13:28 GMT

Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has sacked a deputy prime minister in charge of energy issues, criticising him for slow growth in the sector, state newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan reported today.



Baymurad Khodjamukhamedov, 48, until now the head of state gas company Turkmengas, will replace Tachberdy Tagyev, who has been in charge of Central Asia's largest gas production company since February 2007, it said.

Turkmenistan has stopped selling gas to Russia, traditionally its main customer, after a pipeline explosion in April.

The two sides are now in talks over new supply terms as Russia needs less gas than before.

Berdymukhamedov has also sacked the head of the railways ministry for negligence and the head of state statistics agency - for failing to implement…

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