Rugby union in Turkmenistan is a minor but growing sport.
In 1949, rugby union was forbidden in the USSR during the "fight against the cosmopolitanism".
[1] Turkmenistan had its own rugby team in the USSR, but it was not treated as a proper national side.
There is now a Turkmenistan national rugby union team, but it is very much embryonic, and its matches have tended to be semi-formal.
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