* 2006 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan ( b. 1940 )

* 1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan ( d. 2006 )

Figures from the CIA World Factbook show the main export markets in 2006 were United Kingdom 30. 8 %, Spain 22. 7 %, Germany 13. 7 %, Turkmenistan 10. 4 %, Switzerland 8. 3 %, Italy 6. 7 % while the corresponding figures for imports are Spain 23. 4 %, Russia 12. 3 %, Italy 12 %, UK 9 %, France 8. 9 %, Netherlands 6. 8 % and United States 4. 7 %.

President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov, a former bureaucrat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ruled Turkmenistan from 1985, when he became head of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR, until his death in 2006.

In 2006 Turkmenistan had eight merchant marine vessels of more than 1, 000 tons displacement, of which four were cargo ships, two were oil tankers, one was for refrigerated cargo, and one was a combination ore and oil ship.

Saparmurat Niyazov, who was ruler of Turkmenistan from 1985 to 2006, is another oft-cited cultivator of a cult of personality.

Most of these anthems were replaced during or after the collapse of the USSR ; Belarus, Kazakhstan ( until 2006 ), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan ( until 1997 ), and Uzbekistan kept the melodies, but with different lyrics.

* Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan ( 1999 ) – died in office 2006.

File: Saparmurat Niyazov. jpg | Saparmurat Niyazov, President for Life of Turkmenistan ( 1999 – 2006 )

* A title Niyazov bestowed upon himself during his lifetime term as President of Turkmenistan from 1991 to 2006

According to Reporters Without Borders ' 2006 World Press Freedom Index, Turkmenistan had the 3rd worst press freedom conditions in the world, behind North Korea and Burma.

Andrey Zatoka, environmentalist and activist, citizen of Turkmenistan and Russia was arrested on false charges for 46 days from December 2006 to January 2007.

Semipalatinsk was the site that Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan chose for the signing of the Central Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone on 8 September 2006, also commemorating the 15th anniversary of the test site's closing.

The player leads a four-man team ( three AI-controlled teammates ) of United States Navy SEALs through 12 missions in four regions: Alaska, Thailand, Congo, and Turkmenistan in the years 2006 and 2007.

Afghanistan started its FIFA World Cup campaign for the first time in 2003 while they played Turkmenistan in 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification which they lost both matches in aggregate of 13 – 0.

In 2006, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) suspended all trade made with the traditional caviar-producing sturgeons of the Caspian and Black Seas ( Beluga, Ossetra and Sevruga ), ( Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine ) due to the producing countries ' failure to apply international regulations and recommendations.

The bright achievement of that season was Dacia's victory at the Turkmenistan President's Cup in February 2006.

* Saparmurat Niyazov-President of Turkmenistan from 1990 until his death in 2006.

However, during the tour of Australia in 2006 / 7, the MCC official accompanying the urn said the veil legend had been discounted, and it was now " 95 % certain " that the urn contains the ashes of a cricket bail.

Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 November 2006, he said x-rays of the urn had shown the pedestal and handles were cracked, and repair work had to be carried out.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

* 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.

By 2001, the population had jumped to 206, 073, and it was 217, 988, in 48, 061 families, according to 2006 census.

As of December 2006, the Recorded A Cappella Review Board ( RARB ) had reviewed over 660 a cappella albums since 1994, and its popular discussion forum had over 900 users and 19, 000 articles.

The software, maintained by AOL, Inc., at one time had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States ( with 52 % of the total reported as of 2006 ).

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

To complement this, a permanent live news ticker had earlier been introduced in 2006: this had only previously been in use sporadically.

* In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.

This logo had been used in the Beano Club for one issue in 2006.

The logo was still grooved, but was now back to the rounded style which it had from 1999 to 2006.

" In 2006, the state with the largest number of students enrolled was South Carolina, but many of these were married students who had moved from other parts of the country to attend the University.

Beef extract was eventually reintroduced as a key Bovril ingredient in 2006, after the European Commission lifted its ban on the export of Britain's beef products ; it was only at this point that the manufacturer stated explicitly that this had been the main reason for beef's removal.

In 2006, Bo Diddley participated as the headliner of a grassroots organized fundraiser concert, to benefit the town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

In January 2006, the Florida Keys had recovered enough to host the fundraising concert to benefit the more hard-hit community of Ocean Springs.

Chad and Taiwan had relations from 1962 to 1972 and 1997 to 2006 when, for financial and security reasons, Chad announced its intention to recognize China.

During a UN mission in the northern part of the country in November 2006, the mission had a meeting with a prefect who said that he could not maintain law and order over the military and the presidential guards.

In comparison, in 2006, the GDP was estimated to be 6. 6 billion USD per calendar year and the GDP per capita ( purchasing power parity ) was estimated at $ 5, 400 US.

In 2006, Autodesk estimated the number of active. dwg files at in excess of one billion.

At the end of 2006, there were an estimated 150, 000 internally displaced people.

In 2006 the number of personal computers per 1, 000 people increased to an estimated 87 per 1, 000 inhabitants, a rate still below that in other large Latin American economies.

In 2006, U. S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion were estimated at nearly 6. 5 billion tons.

BP, in its 2007 report, estimated at 2006 end that there were 147 years reserves-to-production ratio based on proven coal reserves worldwide.

In 2006, it was estimated that China manufactured 1. 235 billion tonnes of cement, which was 44 % of the world total cement production .< ref name =" NEAA070619b "> China now no.

Gross domestic product ( GDP ) per capita based on purchasing-power-parity ( PPP ) increased fourfold between 1981 and 2006, from US $ 1355 in 1981, to US $ 2525 in 1991, to US $ 3686 in 2001 and to an estimated US $ 4535 in 2006.

Based on the current US $ prices, GDP per capita increased from US $ 587 in 1981, to US $ 869 in 1991, to US $ 1461 in 2001 and to an estimated US $ 1518 ( which translates to less than US $ 130 per month ) in 2006.

In 2006, Enya made it to the number three spot in the ranks of wealthy Irish entertainers with an estimated fortune of € 109 million ( i. e., £ 75 million or US $ 165 million ), and number 95 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 of the 250 Wealthiest Irish People.

In 2006, a U. S. Geological Survey estimated that Afghanistan has as much as of natural gas, of oil and condensate reserves.

The WHO estimated that an additional 10 – 20 babies die per 1, 000 deliveries as a result of FGM ; the estimate was based on a 2006 study conducted on 28, 393 women attending delivery wards at 28 obstetric centers in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan.

Wild population estimates vary ; one estimate shows that there are about 1, 590 individuals living in the wild, while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimated that this figure could be as high as 2, 000 to 3, 000.

The final cost is estimated at € 3 billion, including the infrastructure on Earth, which is to be constructed in the years 2006 and 2007.

In 2006, the real GDP growth was estimated at almost 17 percent.

The island has a preliminary census estimated population of 79 805, as of September 2006.

His estimated net worth, if calculated as a fraction of the U. S. gross domestic product at the time, would have been equivalent to $ 110. 1 billion in 2006 U. S. dollars, making him the fourth richest person in American history .< ref name = forbes >

At the end of December 2005, authorities estimated that in 2006, the oil profits would be 47 billion ouguiyas ( about US $ 180 million ) and represent a quarter of the state budget, according to RFI.

Foreign direct investment ( FDI ) has picked up and is estimated to have reached 12 percent of GDP in 2007, compared with 7 percent in 2006.

The spa opens in December 2006 and cost an estimated CHF 35 million.

There are an estimated 40, 000 internet users in Niger ( 2006 ), and 216 ( 1999 ) Internet service hosts: ISPs and other direct connections to the internet.

The UN estimated in 2006 that there were only. 3 internet users per 100 Nigeriens, but this had risen from less than. 1 per 100 in 2000.