Turkmenistan bars Kazakh Activist from leaving Country

    A prominent leader of the ethnic Kazakh community in Turkmenistan has been prevented from leaving Ashgabat to make a visit to Kazakhstan, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.     Bisengul Begdesinov, 56, told RFE/RL today that on December 2 Turkmen border guards did not allow him to board a plane from Ashgabat to Almaty,...