Affairs
Affairs Report

Shifting sands - Ashgabat

Preface

When Turkmenistan’s President Niyazov died in 2006, it was the end of an eccentric personality cult. His successor promised
to open the state up but today the gas-rich nation is still an enigma. Foreign journalists are unwelcome but Monocle entered the country to see what, if anything, has changed.



:: The monument to the independence of Turkmenistan across Independence Park

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