{"id":64803,"date":"2014-01-18T20:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=64803"},"modified":"2014-01-18T20:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T16:13:33","slug":"turkmenistan-to-make-people-pay-for-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=64803","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan to Make People Pay for Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Gurbanguli-Berdymukhamedov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-64801\" alt=\"\u0533\u0578\u0582\u0580\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0563\u0578\u0582\u056c\u056b \u0532\u0565\u0580\u0564\u056b\u0574\u0578\u0582\u0570\u0561\u0574\u0565\u0564\u0578\u057e\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Gurbanguli-Berdymukhamedov.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The president of Turkmenistan says his government will begin installing gas meters in households, ending the unlimited supply of free gas to citizens in this energy-rich Central Asian nation.<\/p>\n<p>President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said during a televised address on Saturday that the government hoped the meters would encourage people to consume energy in a more &#8220;economical&#8221; way.<\/p>\n<p>The nation is estimated to have the world&#8217;s fourth-largest natural gas reserves, and gas, electricity and water have been supplied free to households since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>When Berdymukhamedov became president in 2006, he pledged to extend that policy until 2030.<\/p>\n<p>He has ruled with an iron fist, allowing no dissent or independent media in the predominantly Muslim nation of five million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The president of Turkmenistan says his government will begin installing gas meters in households,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":64801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155],"tags":[5894,5893],"class_list":["post-64803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","tag-gas","tag-turkmenistan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}