IN THE MID-1990s, the eyes of the world turned to central Asia, to countries most people could barely spell let alone place on a map – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan. These countries, newly liberated from the Soviet Union, were said to be home to fabulous energy reserves.
A report from the US State Department claimed that offshore the Caspian Sea there were reserves of as much as 200 billion barrels of oil – enough to rival reserves in the Persian Gulf.
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