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News that even for 2022 looks discouraging: President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov — the great and terrible Arkadag (in his dreams, of course) — ordered early presidential elections to be held on March 12, and he himself announced that his activities in this post are actually curtailing. At an extraordinary session of the People's Council, Berdimuhamedov said that two years ago he reached the «age of the prophet», that he was tired and that «the road to public administration at a new stage in the development of our country must be given to young leaders who were brought up in a spiritual environment and in accordance with the high requirements of modernity ”.
February 11 marks 15 years since the former dentist of the previous president, Saparmurat Niyazov, took over as Commander-in-Chief of Neutral Turkmenistan — everything, they say, is enough.
The last seven of these fifteen years have been over Berdimuhamedov outside of Turkmenistan it was customary to make fun. He himself regularly gave occasions: he shot at targets during exercises like your commando, arranged bicycle rides for officials, rocked with them in the gym, sang songs with specially trained grandchildren, wrote many books about the history of tea, dogs, horses and Turkmen cooking ( Arkadag's books «Novaya» analyzed in sufficient detail two years ago).