However, it is still unclear whether its previously secluded economic and political system will be able to handle increasing revenues from gas and oil exports.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, power in the country was in the hands of Saparmurat Niyazov, a former Politburo secretary.
Niyazov profoundly changed the country, which had previously been known for its cotton industry in the USSR.
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