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‘Closing’ Turkmenistan’s major tourist attraction is in keeping with its president’s idiosyncratic behaviour

Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has ordered that the country’s most famous sight, the Darvaza gas crater, or Gates of Hell, be...

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For Turkmen, rapping president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is no joke

Christian Mamo

Turkmenistan’s president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has become a figure of fun across the world thanks to his idiosyncratic, often surreal public appearances...