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By Akhal-Teke: A Eurasianet Bulletin Long lines outside stores in Turkmenistan are a reliable place to find people complaining about their quality of life. And so it is there that the security services are focusing their latest hunt for malcontents, as RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, Radio Azatlyk, reported on January 29. Azatlyk tells the story of one recent incident when a man kvetched to fellow waiting customers outside a pharmacy about the misery of his living conditions and how his wages barely covered the cost of his medicines. “He also said that the government is uninterested in the problems …