Just how do you build a cult of personality? Turkmenistan’s former minister of foreign affairs has been watching Saparmurat Niyazov and offers his view of the techniques used by the Turkmenbashiby Avdy Kuliev HE IS president, prime minister, chairman of the upper house, chairman of the Council of Elders, president of the humanitarian association, chairman of the only political party, […]

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