TURKMEN DEMONSTRATORS DEMAND NEW ELECTIONS.

A thousanddemonstrators marched in Ashgabat on July 12 to demand new parliamentaryand presidential elections, Izvestiya reported July 13.The demonstrators told the newspaper that they had been drivento this step by the deterioration of economic conditions for mostTurkmens, and by the lavish spending of the country’s presidentand his associates.

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