This demonstrated that, rather than Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orbán, the president-elect seems to be modeling his dictatorship on that of Saparmurat Niyazov, the first president of an independent ...

I struggled for a way to memorialize the dawning in Washington of Hell's Encore. Finally, I gave up and fell back on what I think is the greatest paragraph of political journalism of at least the last ...

Berdymukhamedov came to power in 2006 after the death of the eccentric Saparmurat Niyazov and he established a pervasive cult of personality similar to his predecessor's. Under his rule ...

Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov on January 17th appointed Gurbannazar Nazarov as minister of oil, natural gas and mineral resources, a post that had been vacant since September.