People carry a picture of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov to mark Turkmenistan's Independence Day in Ashgabat on 27 October 2009. Turkmenistan is important to world energy markets because it contains the world's third largest reserves of natural gas, with estimates of the country's total gas resource base ranging as high as 535 trillion cubic feet
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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