15 October 1998 Turkmenistan has an entire collection of institutions, procedures, and documents borrowed from the practice of democratic countries, but none of them make any difference in the life of the Turkmen people. Few of the provisions of the constitution have been executed, including its provisions for free elections. Saparmurat Niyazov, the country’s president, […]

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