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Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov won a new five-year term by capturing 97 percent of the vote, election officials said Monday, but a Western expert called the vote a democratic sham. All of Berdymukhamedov’s seven opponents praised his
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ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov won a new five-year term by capturing 97 per cent of the vote, election officials said Monday, but a Western expert called the vote a democratic sham. All of Berdymukhamedov's se
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Turkmenistan's new president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov takes the oath during an inauguration ceremony in Ashgabat in Ashgabat, 14 February 2007. Regime loyalist Berdymukhammedov was sworn in as Turkmenistan's new president at a grand ceremony amid... View Photo »
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Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov spent his first months in office in 2007 reversing some of the more controversial policies of his predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov. He reopened rural hospitals, for example, and expanded access to the Internet
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February 13, 2012 — ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov won a new five-year term by capturing 97 percent of the vote, election officials said Monday, but a Western expert called the vote a democratic sham. Al
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Turkmenistan's president, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, has won a new five-year term by capturing 97% of the vote, election officials said. A western expert called the vote a democratic sham. All of Berdymukhamedov's seven opponents praised his leadership
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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2007 file photo copies of the "Rukhnama" book by the late Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov are on display in a polling station in Niyazov's home village of Kipchak, Turkmenistan. Education authorities in the Central Asian... View Photo »
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ASHGABAT (Reuters) - Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov won 97 percent of votes in an election that cemented his absolute rule of a Central Asian state holding 4 percent of the world's natural gas reserves, election officials said on Monday. Be
About Saparmurat Niyazov
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Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow (pronounced [θɑːpɑːrmɯːrɑːt niːjɑːðɒv]) (19 February 1940, Gypjak, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union – 21 December 2006) served as the head of state of Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He served as the First Secretary of the Turkmen Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 and the first President of Turkmenistan... Full Article
