The Guardian Gets it Right

With the complete nonsense about Turkmenistan put out by the CIA and the UK Foreign office (Complete Internet Nonsense), you may have thought that only Aardvark, your Turkmen on the spot, tells it like it is in downtown Atamyrat. But no, some folks at the Guardian also get out on the steets.

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Turkmenistan

Saparmurat Niyazov, president of this Central Asian republic, is a man possessed of reformist zeal - leading to such exciting innovations as renaming months of the year after members of his family, making the issue of driving licenses contingent on passing a test on his spiritual writings, and ordering the construction of an ice palace in the desert. Last year, the great man turned his attention to Turkmenistan's television, and was displeased by the makeup on Turkmen newsreaders. "Female presenters," he declared, "wear too much whitening powder. Sometimes men do the same. This cannot be allowed." Since then, Turkmenistan's newsreaders have been obliged to deliver their nightly eulogies to the superhuman accomplishments of their president without cosmetic obstruction of the Turkmen "complexion the colour of wheat" Niyazov so admires. Interestingly, his own hair appears to be slicked with a combination of boot polish and lighter fluid.

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