15 March 1998 After being hospitalized and undergoing heart surgery last fall, Saparmurat Niyazov, leader of Turkmenistan since the country’s independence in 1991, has granted few interviews. So it was quite a coup when Olga Solomonova, a reporter for Trud, a Russian daily newspaper, convinced the president to participate in a wide-ranging discussion that touched on the Turkmen opposition and […]
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