Turkmenistan

Thursday 10th June

Turkmenbashi is dead! Long live Turkmenbashi?

Maria Yanovskaya, 10 June 2010
A recently published book about President Berdymukhamedov of Turkmenistan confirms that the cult of personality is alive and well in the republic. After 15 years of independence Maria Yanovskaya could be forgiven for being surprised at the book’s excessively rapturous tone… but she is not.
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