Turkmenistan’s president did not chair the regular Friday Cabinet meeting last week and nobody seems to know why. As well as the September 21 meeting being called off, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov did not, as the exile-based Chronicles of Turkmenistan observed, turn up to any ceremonies for the opening of new government buildings – a favorite past-time. State media reported that Berdymukhamedov’s son and presumptive dauphin, Serdar, oversaw the ribbon-cutting at a new hospital in the town of Dushak, in Akhal province though. In another anomalous change of plans, RFE/RL’s Turkmen service, Radio Azatlyk, noted that the September 24 opening session of the Halk Maslahaty, the People’s Council, was called off. This body is a largely consultative institution, notable mainly for its highly photogenic assemblage of fulsomely bearded town elders, but in purely notional terms it is meant to broadly reflect the will of the people and is often used to push through major policy decisions. A more summary one-day session, reportedly chaired by the president, was instead held on September 25. To simulate the impression of buzzing presidential activity, state media revealed that Berdymukhamedov has just published two new books, adding to a staggering pile of existing works. One is a worthy-sounding tome about Turkmenistan’s effort to achieve United… Read full this story
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