Long regarded as a national celebrity, Turkmenistan’s previous president’s favorite horse will be immortalized with a personal statue in the gas-rich Central Asian country. The Akhal-Teke breed of horse enjoys a prominent role in government propaganda in the former Soviet nation and Ak Khan — whose name means White Khan — was the prized stallion of … Read more
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan: The son of Turkmenistan’s autocrat leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, decisively won the presidential election, officials said Tuesday, paving the way for hereditary succession in one of the world’s most tightly controlled countries. Serdar Berdymukhamedov, 40, won the ballot held last Saturday with 73 percent of the vote, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) said in … Read more
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan: Voting was underway in Turkmenistan Saturday for a tightly-controlled leadership election that is all but certain to yield ex-Soviet Central Asia’s first father-son succession. Nine candidates are in the fray in the republic of six million people, but President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who tolerates no opposition and has dominated public life since the country’s … Read more
