The latest chapter in the Great Game saga has been opened with a landmark agreement to build a gas pipeline linking Turkmenistan with Russia. The accord is widely seen as a blow to the interests of US and western Europe, which had hoped that Turkmen gas would be channelled through a western-backed trans-Caspian Sea pipeline that would bypass Russia.
The agreement was signed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbaev and Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in mid-May in the port...
