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All That Gas?: The EU and Turkmenistan
Briefing Document – 16/11/2009
The European Commission is turning a blind eye to corruption, lack of transparency and poor human rights in the repressive police state of Turkmenistan in a bid to secure future gas supplies, according to a new illustrated briefing paper from the campaign group Global Witness, launched on the eve of the 2009 oil and gas conference in Ashgabat, the Turkmen capital.
The report, ‘All that Gas?’ represents an innovative collaboration between Global Witness and cutting-edge satirical cartoonist, David Rees, who has produced original artwork for the publication. His seven new cartoons feature EU bureaucrats discussing crude strategies to ‘get the gas’. Rees is best-known for his US cartoon series ‘Get Your War On’, published on the internet and in Rolling Stone magazine.
You can download the report as a hi- or lo-res PDF in English. The report is also available in Russian and Turkmen (both Word & PDF ). You can download the back page of the report - featuring just the comic strips by David Rees - as a jpeg in all three langauges.
Read our 2006 report on Turkmenistan 'It's a Gas' here.
Читать <Веселящий газ> (от 2006 г.) на русском здесь
For more information please call Amy Barry on +44 7980 664397
Please contact David Rees on dr@mnftiu.cc concerning the use of the comic strips
Downloads
All That Gas? (11/2009) Hi-res PDF All That Gas? (11/2009) Lo-res version 
Comic Strips (in Turkmen) Comic Strips (Na russkom) David Rees' Comic Strips (In English, hi-res) Gazovyi vopros (11/2009), PDF, na russkom 
Gazovyi vopros (11/2009), Word, na russkom Hemme zat gaz üçinmi? (11/2009) PDF, Türkmen Hemme zat gaz üçinmi? (11/2009) Word, Türkmen Press-Release (11/2009)
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