Turkmenistan is one of the few countries in the world which's economy continued to grow in a time of World crisis in 2009.
Turkmenistan has worlds 4th largest natural gas reserves. Once a member in the Soviet Union, now part of CIS.
It's economy continues to expand. As informs International Monetary Fund (IMF) this October. Economy of Turkmenistan will expand by 12.4% this (2013) year and by 10.4% in 2014. Source
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Turkmenistan is not the only one of the former Soviet Union, showing great expand in their economy. Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have the significant growth in the last years as well.