News Goodnight
posted by on December 21 at 11:11 AM
Mistah Saparmurat Niyazov TürkmenbaÅŸy, President of Turkmenistan, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, and Father of All Ethnic Turkmen—he dead.
1. Forbidding TV news anchors from wearing make-up because he couldn’t tell the men from the women.
2. Banning ballet and opera as “not a part of Turkmen culture.”
3. Building an ice palace in the desert.
4. Changing the Turkmen word for bread, and name of the month of April, to that of his late mother.
One small fact noted in the newspaper reports: “In older pictures, Niyazov had white hair; at the time of his death, it was black.”
Weird update: I went back to the Wikipedia page to check something and this was the entry:
Saparmurat Niyazov From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaSanta Muryata is a penis testicle area of the nymph glands of the vaginal canel, and he is actually a she. Thank you.
When I refreshed, the page went back to normal.
for more wacky hijinx, read about the most popular book in Turkmenistan (Because its really about the only book in turkmenistan):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhnama
His government sent English-language copies to several public libraries in the US, including one in Western Washington. Since Americans don't have to memorize it to pass our driver's exam, we declined to add it to the collection.
You've missed out on some of his bigger hits. He closed all libraries, since "Turkmen don't read," closed all rural hospitals, because if people got sick, "they can come to the capital," and said instead of seeing dentists, people should chew on bones.
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