Nine facts from the biography of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Funeral party for the dictator Rebirth after the "golden age"
The original of this material© Ferghana.Ru, 26.01.2018, Photo: EPA, turkmenistan.gov.tm, via Fergana.Ru, Frame from video: via "Chronicle of Turkmenistan"
He is not an orphan
For a number of years, information about the family of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and his immediate family remained closed. The population of the country, of course, guessed that the second president, in contrast to Saparmurat Niyazov, far from an orphan - he has a family, children, grandchildren, other relatives. But what kind of relatives they are, what they do, how they look - for the time being, almost no one knew this. As, however, the general public knew little about Berdymukhammedov himself until the time came for him to take the presidential throne. |
| Serdar Berdimuhamedov (right) |
However, this is only the beginning. In May 2017, Serdar Berdimuhamedov headed a delegation from Turkmenistan to Tatarstan, where he held talks with the head of the republic, Rustam Minnikhanov. A few more days later, he meets with the chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko. Such meetings, as some believe, are not quite of his rank, after all, he is not the chairman of the Mejlis, but only the chairman of one of the committees. However, what is too much for a simple deputy is quite tough for the president's son.
The list of his achievements does not end there - as they say, a talented person is talented in everything. Having shown extraordinary abilities, first in science, then in diplomacy, Serdar turned his attention to sports. According to the TDH agency, during the “meeting in accordance with the Resolution of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, Serdar Gurbangulyevich Berdimuhamedov was awarded a certificate and a badge on conferring the honorary title “Türkmenistanyn at gazanan tälimçisi” (“Honored Coach of Turkmenistan”). Thus, his merits were noted for increasing the international prestige of Turkmenistan as a sports power and personal contribution to the training of athletes who won prizes in the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.
The question of when such a busy person managed to train professional athletes is still open. It is only known that not all current coaches liked the assignment of such a high title to Serdar. However, most likely, envy speaks in them. Among them, there are probably those who have devoted their entire lives to sports, training athletes, introducing children to physical education, and their merits have not yet been recognized by the state. The son of the president, thanks to his extraordinary abilities, achieves heights in everything that interests him.
Probably nothing else than envy explains the hostility towards Serdar and military personnel. They, obviously, always ask a banal question: “How did a yellow-mouthed chick, who did not serve in the troops a single day and did not sniff gunpowder, so quickly grow up first to a major, and then to a lieutenant colonel?”
“It’s just that there are no words, but I believe that with such actions, the president dishonors not only himself and his son, but also discredits the very rank and honor of an officer,” a retiree who fought in Afghanistan and was awarded military decorations in the same rank writes on social networks. and Serdar. To get such stars, a person had to fight, get seriously injured, and then wait another 20 years for an order to confer a rank, and then again! - and the president's son is already a lieutenant colonel.
Probably, there are people who are watching Serdar's successes only with idle curiosity. However, it seems that the chairman of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan, Akdzhi Nurberdyeva, these successes cause legitimate concern and even fear. She seems to have some reason to believe that Serdar is the first candidate to take her place.
It is indicative in this sense that at the end of 2017, the Turkmen media vied with each other to tell how the people's choice, Serdar Berdimuhamedov, came to voters in the village of Dushak, Kaakhka district, to open a new medical complex for 375 places there. It seems that there were no such reports about deputies in Turkmenistan for all the years of independence. And certainly such stories were not filmed about the current chairman of the Mejlis Nurberdiyeva. Thus, it all looked as if out of 125 deputies of the Turkmen Mejlis, only S. Berdimuhamedov worked hard and thought about the needs and aspirations of his voters.
So it cannot be ruled out that in the near future Akdzhi Nurberdiyeva will be asked to vacate the chair of the chair so that it can be occupied by a young promising leader, who, quite by chance, may turn out to be the son of the president.
Although I think Arkadag's swing is wider. Unlike Saparmurat Niyazov, who seems sincerely believed himself to be immortal, the current head of Turkmenistan looks at things more rationally. If something happens - and, as everyone saw in the example of Niyazov, anything can happen - it's better to have a son as a successor than a complete stranger. Moreover, he will not have to think about the title either: he is already Serdar, the Leader.
What is allowed to Arkadag
In fairness, it should be noted that nepotism for the Central Asian republics is a common thing. Moreover, it extends to all social spheres, from the very bottom to sky-high presidential heights. Whoever you take - be it Rahmon, Karimov, Nazarbayev- everyone has some kind of relatives in power, everyone has one or another gesheft from the state budget.
At the same time, the late Saparmurat Niyazov, with all his specific features, behaved rather modestly in this sense and did not seat children in positions of power.
But the current president of Turkmenistan is a completely different person. He has a whole carload of these relatives, and everyone wants to get a position, take over someone else's business, put money from the state budget into their pocket - in a word, to the best of their weak strength, do something useful for the country.
It may well be that all these relatives are very good people. But the proximity to Arkadag spoiled them a little. But no matter how good they are in themselves, this is still not enough to give them the entire state at the mercy of them.
Arkadag itself can do anything: throw knives, fly a helicopter, ride on tank and bicycle, manage horse and racing car , to play guitar , sing your own songs, hang your portraits everywhere and erect monuments to yourself.
["ANT", Turkmenistan, 01/16/2018, "The portraits of the president are being changed again in Turkmenistan": Since the new year, portraits of the president have been updated in state institutions of Turkmenistan. From now on, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov appears not in a red tie, but in black. It is reported that private enterprises also received instructions to replace the portraits of the head of state.
The price of one portrait is three manats. In state institutions, including schools, the face of the president is in every office and classroom. Teachers have to pay for replacements out of their own pockets. At the same time, they were asked to turn in old portraits.
“This is apparently so that one fine morning no one will find tens and even hundreds of thousands of portraits of the president in a garbage dump,” joked a teacher from Ashgabat.
The Turkmen authorities regularly change the image of Berdymukhammedov. Now he has become younger, then he is serious and looks straight, then he smiles and looks somewhere to the side. The last time the country changed its face was at the end of February last year, that is, less than a year ago. Then the president was wearing a red tie against the backdrop of a Turkmen carpet. - Inset K.ru]
People will treat all these cute eccentricities and small weaknesses with understanding: that's what the president is for. But when his offspring, sisters, sons-in-law, nephews and other grandchildren begin to do the same, this is a completely different matter. As the ancient Romans would say in such a case: what is allowed to Jupiter is not allowed to the nephew. But it seems that numerous relatives of Arkadag do not want to understand this, which causes great irritation in society.
The situation is aggravated by the transparency of the modern information society. No matter how the presidential clan hides its extravagant hobbies, sooner or later everything comes to the surface. Moreover, not everything is hidden.
On opposition and human rights websites, on social networks, on instant messaging web servers and on smartphone applications, one can see, for example, very curious details from the life of the president's sister, Gulnabat Dovletova. Videos have been posted for everyone to see, where nephews, sons-in-law and other relatives of the head of the Turkmen state with their friends roll out on expensive cars, feast in chic restaurants and smoke hookah in the most expensive hotels. The most curious thing is that these videos and photos are posted not by paparazzi or enemies of the president. They were filmed and posted on the network by the heroes of such “reportings”. Selfies in the style of "look how cool I am and be jealous" have become self-revealing for many members of the president's family. Another thing is how much they themselves are afraid of such revelations. It doesn't seem like much.
Although there are exceptions among them: some relatives prefer to arrange their affairs in blessed silence. Thus, a source in Ashgabat reports that a special group of specialists in computer and IP technologies, formally listed under the Ministry of Communications, but actually subordinate to the Ministry of National Security, has been instructed to prevent any attempts by Internet users to access sites banned and blocked in the country. Their duties also include preventing rumors, or rather, the dissemination of information about the president's sister, Gulnabat Dovletova. She is the Executive Director of the National Red Crescent Society of Turkmenistan (NRCST), which .A lot of negativity can be found online about the president's son-in-law, Nazar Rejepov, who controls business and entrepreneurship in the country. Information about one of Berdimuhamedov's nephews, Shomurod, can generally terrify an impressionable person. Shomurod is known for his wild, uncontrollable temper, he is able to raise his hand against anyone who will argue with him in word or deed. It is known, for example, that he beat the investigator only because he disobeyed his order and did not close the criminal case against his friend.
["TsentrAziya", 20 12.2015, "Beloved nephew of Berdimuhamedov beat the investigator. The investigator was punished": According to a source in the prosecutor's office, the incident occurred in November of this year.
[...] the nephew of President Berdimuhammedov, while in Dubai (UAE), called the investigator of the prosecutor's office, who was in charge of a criminal case against a certain Aman, a close friend and classmate of Shomurod. On the phone, Shomurod demanded to immediately stop the investigative actions against his friend and not to bring him to criminal responsibility. However, the investigator refused his request, which infuriated Shomurod, whom no one in Turkmenistan has the right to argue with and refuse to do anything.
The very next day, Shomurod flew to Ashgabat and, accompanied by 8 fellow athletes, arrived for a personal audience with an intractable investigator. Without asking unnecessary questions, the thugs severely beat the obstinate investigator.
After the incident, the prosecutor intervened in the case. He personally prepared all the necessary documents for the release of Aman from criminal responsibility and the order to dismiss the beaten investigator.
The head of state was also informed about the incident, who instructed the Presidential Security Service to detain his nephew and send him back to Dubai on the next flight. The President's order was carried out immediately. And no one knows about the fate of the poor investigator.
It should be noted that Shomurod is currently engaged in the construction of a large hotel in Dubai and "assists" Turkmen entrepreneurs in the supply of expensive cars and sports cars from the UAE to Turkmenistan. At the same time, the ban imposed in Turkmenistan on the import of vehicles with an engine capacity of more than 3.5 cc does not apply to Shomurod. - Inset K.ru]
In general, they say about the president's nephews - the sons of his sister Gulnabat - that they subjugated all imports of alcohol, tobacco and industrial products. People even joke about this that “there are not enough business facilities for all the nephews in the country, and the last stage of privatization was launched just for them.”
It is possible to list Arkadag's relatives and their outrages endlessly, but this is unlikely to change the situation. In this regard, I only remember that Lenin dreamed that any cook could manage the state. Turkmenistan seems to have reached the point where every relative of President Berdymukhammedov is capable of running the state. Another question: will there be enough states in the world to get all his relatives?
How Gulnabat Dovletova took over the Turkmen Red Crescent
The original of this material© "ATM", Turkmenistan, 07/06/2017, Photo: via "ATM"
At the behest of my sister
Gulnabat Myalikgulyevna Dovletova is the sister of the President of Turkmenistan, since the beginning of 2014 she has been the Executive Director of the National Red Crescent Society of Turkmenistan (NRCS). In 2013, she was forced to leave her job from the khyakimlik (mayor's office) of the metropolitan area named after President Niyazov. The reason, according to sources, is fraud with all sorts of tenders. The chairman of the society is Maral Almazovna Achilova, but she does not have any power - all issues are decided by Gulnabat Dovletova.Former employees of the Red Crescent, who left at different times, but for one reason, the society lost its original role and turned into a feeding trough of its new de facto leader, tell about the new orders and management methods of the president's sister.
Two months after Gulnabat joined the NRCST, the "six" of the Red Crescent rewrote the charter of the organization, re-registered it and changed the position of the president's sister: from now on, she became known as the "General Director". The newly minted boss appropriated the seal of the organization and began to exercise her power.
NRCST is a humanitarian independent public organization. Its main mission is to provide assistance to victims of emergencies and natural disasters, as well as to the poor (orphans, lonely elderly, disabled people), in wartime - to assist the wounded and their families.
Before the arrival of Gulnabat, the fundamental principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement were inscribed on the wall of the main lobby of the National Society: humanity, independence, impartiality, voluntariness, unity, universality, neutrality. Having become the general director, Dovletova ordered the inscriptions to be erased.
Gulnabat began her activity by making a large one out of two offices on the first floor. She put two guards at the counter at the entrance to the office, and sent a disabled employee to guard another room - the house of the Red Crescent at 44 Azadi Street. She explained this by saying that he had an indecent appearance for the main office. She sent all the employees to the basement, where she also made a major overhaul. She hung portraits of her brother-president in each department. Previously, it hung only in the lobby.
She blocked all the windows of the employees' workplace with bricks, practically walling up people and leaving them without fresh air and sunlight. In the foyer, she put upholstered furniture and placed a large aquarium with fish. Among them, one "shark" swims, the rest of the individuals breed, serving as food for it. The allegory is read unambiguously, everything is like in the Red Crescent, where the shark is the general director, and the fish are all employees.
According to the charter, the NRCST has the right to open self-supporting enterprises under its roof to cover its needs. Taking advantage of this point, Dovletova opened a sewing workshop and two large pharmacies. At the planning meeting, she announced that from now on everyone should order dresses and embroidery only in this workshop and purchase medicines in their pharmacies, where prices are higher than in other points.
“Do you know how much a license to open a pharmacy costs [meaning the unofficial price - approx. ANT]? - she looked around at the planning meeting with her subordinates. - One million dollars! And here we got it. Gradually, our pharmacies will open throughout the country. No one else will get a license for this type of activity in the country.”
From the very beginning of her work, the president's sister introduced a mandatory dress code among employees - to appear at work only in Turkmen national dresses on the floor and with embroidery on the collar and chest. You can’t just wear a long dress, certainly with embroidery. A long skirt with a blouse is also not allowed.
“In a traditional Turkmen family, it is considered shameful to wear a skirt, which means that a girl is frivolous and even licentious, i.e. easily accessible,” she said.
Her leadership of the team is a system of prohibitions. So, Dovletova canceled time off for employees: “No one in Turkmenistan gets them, and you won’t have a rest!”, she said at the planning meeting, although this is a violation of the Labor Code. And now full-time employees are on duty around the clock in the office on holidays and go to work the next day.
Gulnabat banned volunteers from gathering at the main office, ignoring the statutory condition that volunteers are the driving force of the NRCST. Closed the issuance of hot meals, replacing them with dry rations. Now entrepreneurs bring carcasses of sheep, and all employees of the main office cut raw meat into rations with their bare hands, and then distribute it to the recipients of the NRCST. The president's sister even decides who gets meat and who doesn't.
Another “innovation” by Dovletova is the abolition of lump-sum payments to disabled people. They supposedly receive benefits from the state. Introduced a ban on giving gifts on holidays to the wards of the Nursing Home. Literally, her remark on this matter: “There are only prostitutes living there, they did not give birth to children, and if they had children, then they do not need old people, therefore they are handed over to a nursing home. When I worked in the khyakimlik, I never gave them gifts.” And the same is also pronounced at the planning meeting.
Among the introduced bans, there is one: employees cannot sit on upholstered furniture in the main lobby, which opens out of the CEO's office. And you can not go up from the basement to the first floor unnecessarily. Employees jokingly call themselves the children of the dungeon. But it is impossible because Gulnabat receives visitors all day long. On weekdays, everyone who wants to receive a handout from the master's shoulder, mostly her acquaintances, goes to her. On holidays, all heads of organizations and enterprises, entrepreneurs carry offerings. According to an eyewitness, her driver does not have time to take gifts home.
"Personal is mine and someone else's is also mine"
The general director does not draw a special boundary between his own family and the team, between home and work. Her eldest granddaughter named Nurana, a 4th grade student, is constantly in the main office, and not with her grandmother in the office, but with Jemal, the secretary of the chairman of the Society, Maral Achilova. In the chairman's office, as in a children's room, toys, dolls, a board for classes, textbooks, writing materials and other objects and things that are not related to the specifics of a serious public organization are piled up. Starting from lunch, the secretary takes care of the child entirely, becoming an ordinary nanny. Very convenient, no one has to pay.By the way, a little about who belongs to whom in the Dovletova family. Nurana is the daughter of the eldest daughter Gulnabat Maral and the son-in-law of Shamurad, the well-known lawless Shamma in the capital. This is the one who beat the prosecutor to a pulp for refusing to close the criminal case against a friend, the one that takes away business from honest entrepreneurs.
Gulnabat put her son-in-law in charge of the NRCST pharmacies. Shamurat is not only Dovletova's son-in-law, but also her own nephew, her sister's son. That is, the sisters married their children. Among the Turkmens, such marriage unions are a very common phenomenon. And Gulnabat also discussed this at the planning meeting.
“They say about me that I am a nationalist, nothing like that. Yes, I married my daughter to my nephew. What's wrong with that, I want to save my family,” she said.
Mixing the personal with the official and vice versa, Dovletova allows her close associates to do the same. So Aina Garadzhayeva, her non-staff secretary, being the coordinator of the program, does nothing, but regularly travels abroad. At work, her duties include keeping records of visitors, appointing them the time of reception with the boss, and weeding out unnecessary ones. Together with the boss, they arrange children in kindergartens, in prestigious schools, institutes, receiving rewards for this. G. Dovletova can take the money, not fulfill the request, but not return the money.
And what about the chairman of the NRCST M. Achilova? She is absolutely powerless. Gulnabat controls her movements, her consumption of gasoline when using the state car, insults her at every opportunity. What can we say about the employees, they get it at every planning meeting. Dovletova is not shy in expressions, her statements do not just offend people, they shock them, into a stupor. For example, she stated: "You are all immoral, your women have no husbands, men have no wives." She can tell a male representative in person - you are not a man at all. And she openly threatened the caretaker for his fault - get ready for prison, I'll put you in jail. As a result, she fired him under the article for theft.
The general director does not allow nurses working under the Prevention of Tuberculosis program to planning meetings, does not allow them to participate in corporate events of the company. So she is afraid of contracting tuberculosis. And this at a time when program staff explain to the public the inadmissibility of discrimination in TB, labeling people with TB.
For many years, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent has been pushing the issue of Internet access for the NRCST. In 2013, access to the World Wide Web was opened, and all departments were connected to the global network. Gulnabat closed this window to the outside world. Then I turned off "8-ku" in all departments, i.e. access to intercity communications, although the Red Crescent of Turkmenistan operates throughout the country, has more than 50 branches of regional, district, settlement significance. “Call from your mobiles,” she said at the meeting. Employees have to pay out of their own pocket. Grant support programs provide funds for communication, but she does not allow them to be used.
Today, more than 100 employees have lost their jobs, almost all programs have closed. And it seems that this situation will continue as long as the sister is the CEO. And she will not leave this place, she is very comfortable here. It is difficult to find another place like this in Ashgabat. Office in the city center, she conducts a public reception of her visitors, does not report to anyone. I installed security cameras on all sides. She forced the police to set up a post - booth 02 with a round-the-clock duty officer. The owners of private houses next to the office were not lucky - Gulnabat took away their adjoining territory to widen the road, because her car could not drive up to the office.
“All the achievements of the Red Crescent for 25 years of independence have been destroyed. This is beneficial to the authorities, because they, the authorities, are not interested in the development of civil society. International donors are unwilling to fund the NRCST. And now the organization exists and it's okay, no one cares that it does not fulfill its mission,” said the former employees of the Red Crescent.
["ANT", Turkmenistan, 08/01/2017, "Red Crescent of Turkmenistan: "Slander of envious people" or does it really prick your eyes?" : The authors of the first material of ANT, people close to the Company […] told the editors other features of the work of the Company and the behavior of its general director. […]
“Earlier, employees were admitted to the Society on a competitive basis, and this was in accordance with the principles of the international federation of the RCMP. Now the general director Dovletova accepts only those who she likes personally or on a related basis. So an experienced employee with many years of experience Merdan Kemzhaev, who headed the department for emergency situations and natural disasters, was fired by her sister, and in his place she took a person from the street who did not have experience in such work. This department was completely disbanded for some time, but later reopened, because. Without it, the Society cannot function at all,” the source said.
One of the current employees told ANT that the staff is most outraged by the nepotism that its CEO creates in this organization. […] The source indicates that the Company's accountant, Eziz Garayev, is also a close relative of Gulnabat Dovletova. Garayev's brother is married to one of her four daughters. It turns out that a relative of the president's sister is directly related to the organization's finances.
Dovletova is trying to send them to international forums of the KKKP. […]
Feedback was also received from Turkmen entrepreneurs who clashed with Gulnabat Dovletova.
“I read the comment of Guvanch Khummedov and I cannot but answer it, because I myself once had the stupidity to make a donation to the Red Crescent. I must say right away that it was not on a voluntary basis, but under pressure from Dovletova. She uses the fact that she is a relative of the president, thanks to which she forces people involved in business to do what she needs. Every holiday, crowds of entrepreneurs bring gifts to her in whole cars, and on her birthday, July 22, the entire large hall of the Society is lined with expensive flowers. There are so many flowers that casual visitors to the Society think that someone has died there. Flowers, expensive perfumes and sweets are also brought by all local pop singers, she "protects" them too. None of them dares to speak somewhere at someone's celebration without the permission of their sister. Among my businessmen I know, there are those who seek to be in favor with Dovletova and receive bonuses from her in the form of unhindered currency conversion, clearance of goods at customs, free travel abroad, obtaining land for construction, etc. I understand them, but I can’t do it myself ... ”- Inset K.ru]
Berdimuhamedov: "No one will be allowed to steal people's money"
The original of this material© "Chronicles of Turkmenistan", Turkmenistan, 27.01.2018, Quote of the day. Tokmok
“No one will be allowed to steal the money of the people, profit at their expense, the head of state emphasized, also saying that, if necessary, the powers of the State Service for Combating Economic Crimes will be further expanded and its staff will be increased, but with such a disgusting phenomenon as theft of state funds, it will be finished!”
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
(speaking of corruption at the meeting following the results of 2017).
In the Corruption Perceptions Index 2016, Turkmenistan is ranked 154 out of 176.
The journalists managed to find out the details of the life of members of one of the families of the first persons of the state in the world that are most closed to the media - President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Previously, all information about him and his relatives was carefully concealed. Little is known about Berdymukhammedov himself. For example, before the death of the country's previous leader, Saparmurat Niyazov, he served as deputy prime minister of the government and was the personal doctor of the head of state, but after his funeral, he unexpectedly jumped to the ruling post.
For a long time, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov did not allow journalists to even get close to his relatives, but for the sake of the trust of the electorate, on the eve of the next elections last year, he decided to show his family.
In the photo: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov with his family at the presidential elections
In addition, details of the lifestyle of the presidential clan began to emerge thanks to social networks. For example, it turned out that the sister of the President of Turkmenistan "took over" the "Red Crescent of Turkmenistan" where she established her own rules. She was also accused of fraud with tenders.
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In the photo: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov with his sisters
The only offspring of the Turkmen leader Serdar (translated from Turkmen - "leader") promptly defended his doctoral dissertation. As they say, from now on, those around and subordinates are obliged to address him - "Doctor Serdar Gurbangulyevich." This is the personal requirement of the newly minted young scientist. In November 2016, he was elected as a deputy of the Mejlis, where he heads the Committee on Legislation.
He attends diplomatic meetings of the highest level and was awarded the Honored Coach of Turkmenistan for his contribution to the training of athletes. In an incredibly short time, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, despite the fact that he did not spend a single day in the service. In addition, they say that he has a high chance of becoming his father's successor.
In the photo: Serdar Berdimuhamedov (right)
There are also a lot of negative reviews on the web about the son-in-law of the head of Turkmenistan. According to rumors, it is he who controls the entire business in the country, and Berdimuhamedov's nephews "subdued" all imports of alcoholic, tobacco and industrial products to their interests. According to some reports, one of them went unpunished after he severely beat an investigator who refused to close the case against his friend.
The Turkmen leader is making great efforts to maintain the luxury of external paraphernalia, which is reflected in the pompous white marble buildings being built in Ashgabat and in the Avaza resort area on the Caspian coast. According to local residents, the routes along which Berdimuhamedov's motorcade moves are always sparkling clean.
The preoccupation with external luxury is also reflected in the image of Berdymukhammedov. Often he is portrayed in the media as a kind of rambo with brutal hobbies, for example, at special forces exercises.
Or on horseback.
By the way, then the President of Turkmenistan dined at the festive races in honor of the Day of the Turkmen Horse, covering a distance of 1.2 kilometers in 1 minute 20 seconds. Bloggers immediately compared this episode with the character of the film "The Dictator" by British actor Sacha Baron Cohen.
Apparently, to conquer ladies' hearts, Berdimuhamedov appeared before the audience as a performer of his own songs.
On January 8, the head of Turkmenistan carried out another personnel reshuffle and dismissed several heads of regions. Other people were appointed to their posts. According to some reports, at least one of the retired officials lost his post due to the fact that he had an obese physique.
According to a relative of the candidate, who never took a high post in the Balkan velayat in the west of the country, all applicants for the chair were examined by doctors, and attention was paid to weight as the main indicator.
He sat on chicken broth for two months to lose weight. But he was rather obese and failed to reach presidential standards. He did not pass this stage of selection, "-
It is known that not so long ago "the entire management team" received a command to lose weight. Initially, such an order came during the Asian Games in Ashgabat last September, where only skinny policemen were selected to keep order. Then the requirement extended to other departments.
It should be noted that Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has previously urged citizens to be in shape. Last year, a video appeared on the Web, where "the whole of Turkmenistan" is exercising in unison, including at the workplace and in the fresh air.
Last October, a video posted on the Web, where President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov inspects new construction projects in Ashgabat, made a lot of noise. It is noteworthy that the head of state made a raid on the capital of the country on horseback. However, the city at that moment seemed to have died out - apart from two subordinates of the head of state, there was not a soul in the crowded city.
And in May last year, a video was released in which the president of the country is actively involved in sports. The video sequence accompanies the track, where the words "need to pump up" are repeated in a recitative style.
Needless to say, then users relish.
What else is known about Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov
By profession, the second president of Turkmenistan is a dentist. He completed his postgraduate studies in Moscow, and in the 20 years after graduation he made an excellent career in this field. At the time of his appointment as Minister of Health in 1997, he was the director of the Dental Center of the Ministry of Health of Turkmenistan, later became Deputy Prime Minister and was responsible for education, science, culture, and the media. As president in 2007, he received the degree of doctor of medical sciences and the title of professor.
In 2009, the President of the country assisted in the operation to remove a benign tumor behind the ear, which happened during the grand opening of the cancer center in Ashgabat. The book written by Berdimuhamedov about medicinal plants of Turkmenistan was recommended as a manual for all healthcare workers.
In the presidential elections held on February 12, 2007, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov won 97.69% of the votes, and 97.27% of voters took part in the elections themselves, as reported by the country's Central Election Commission.
Berdymukhammedov, 59, has never appeared in public with his wife.
In 2010, he was named one of the five worst dictators in the world by Foreign Policy magazine. According to human rights activists from Human Right Watch and other international organizations, civil activists and oppositionists are persecuted in the country, whose trail has been lost in the prisons of Turkmenistan, Center 1 notes.
Today Turkmenistan is one of the most closed and totalitarian countries in the world.
Experts from the American research organization Crude Accountability wrote in October 2011 that Berdymukhammedov personally disposed of the country's rich energy reserves. According to the authors of the material, the leader of the country gradually gave exclusive powers to the State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources under the President of Turkmenistan. According to the laws of the country, only 20% of revenues from oil and gas exports went to the state budget of Turkmenistan, where the other 80% went, is not specified.
Last week in Russia, all TV channels at once turned into National Geographic with a single two-hour program "The Race for the Pike" (with repetitions in all news releases). Obviously, someone is trying hard to emphasize their masculinity - the best remedy before the upcoming elections. However, this “someone” in the world of political alpha males is now officially only the second, because the first is now the president of Turkmenistan.
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the current Turkmenbashi and Arkadag (Patron) in one person, set his next record of heroism last week. At military exercises near Ashgabat, Berdimuhamedov showed by personal example how to hit the enemy with a sniper rifle from five meters, frown when throwing a knife into the hat of a mock enemy, and, of course, reload a pistol in the style of Alexander Nevsky. Hero!
But if you think that these are the only superpowers of Arkadag, then shame on you and twenty years of Turkmen hard labor on your head! Berdimuhamedow is not only the king of the world and a role model in the army, but also the master of sports. Here he is so enthusiastically engaged in simulators and does not even sweat that the entire government, unable to restrain himself (and how can he restrain himself - this is Turkmenistan), rushes to exercise with the same passion.
Arkadag, however, does not need all these miserable attempts of his plebs - he is above this and is ready to swing himself at any time and without subordinates (but with a TV camera and conversations during exercises). Oh, what a bench press he has! What muscles! What a stern, but slightly distracted look!
And all the equipment obeys Arkadag: from a racing car ...
... to some kind of supertank, which automatically dries up after leaving the water (and glows inside under water).
However, as it should be for any superhero, the bulk of Arkadag's cases are far from weapons and aggression. For example, he writes books. Do you know what these books are? About tea, about horses, about medicinal herbs - only 35 items. The only strange thing is that among the books of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov there is not a single collection of tongue twisters.
Even Berdimuhamedov, walking along the road, can discover a whole modern village (move over, Gotham!). True, after that the village immediately disappears, but is this not evidence of the miraculous essence of Arkadag?!
But Berdymukhammedov's main occupation is his singing. He can sing in any genre. If you want a guitar riff, get a riff! In the hands of Arkadag, any detuned instrument turns into a cheerful source of music.
If you want a piano, you will have a piano. White, but no ballerinas inside (and no sound, it seems). Arkadag does not accept vulgarity!
Gurbanguly Myalikgulyevich Berdimuhamedov (Turkmen. Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhammedow) is a Turkmen statesman, since 2007 he has been the second president of Turkmenistan.
Biography
Born on June 29, 1957 in the village of Babarap, Geok-Tepe district, Ashgabat region, Turkmen SSR.
In 1979 he graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Turkmen State Medical Institute, then graduate school. Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor in the specialty "Social Hygiene and Health Organization". He began his career in 1980 as a dentist.
1990-1995 - Assistant Professor, Department of Therapeutic Dentistry, Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, Turkmen State Medical Institute.
1995-1997 - Director of the Dental Center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan.
Since 1997 - Minister of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan.
Since 2001 - Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan (Niyazov himself was the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan). In November 2006, he represented Turkmenistan at the CIS summit in Minsk.
Long before the death of S. A. Niyazov, rumors were circulated in the press, according to which Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov was the illegitimate son of Turkmenbashi. The reliability of this information is called into question, since the age difference between them is only 17 years.
After Niyazov's death, he headed the funeral commission and became acting president by decision of the State Security Council. In accordance with the Constitution of Turkmenistan, Ovezgeldy Ataev, the chairman of the Mejlis, was supposed to head, but a criminal case was suddenly initiated against him.
On December 26, at a meeting of the halk maslahaty (People's Council), he received the unanimous support of 2,507 delegates of the country's supreme authority as a candidate for the presidency of Turkmenistan.
He won the presidential elections on February 11, 2007 with a score of 89.23% and became the second president of Turkmenistan.
On the morning of February 14, 2007, the Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan announced the name of the winner, immediately after that the innaguration of the new president began. Berdymukhammedov was presented with a presidential certificate and a distinctive sign in the form of a gold chain with an octagonal emblem. The new president walked on a white carpet, symbolizing a bright path. He was presented with sachak - bread wrapped in a tablecloth, a quiver with arrows, the Koran and the Ruhnama.
On April 23, 2007, he paid an official visit to Moscow and held a meeting with Putin, during which gas contracts, cooperation in the field of medicine and education, and the foreign policy orientation of the new Turkmen authorities were discussed.
Election promises
Berdymukhammedov promises to make the Internet accessible to the people of Turkmenistan (now only 1% of the population uses the network, many objectionable sites are blocked.) In his televised speech, Berdymukhammedov said:
“I believe that the international Internet network, the latest communication technologies should be available to every citizen”
This promise has already been fulfilled. On February 17, 2007, two modern Internet cafes began operating in Ashgabat. An hour of using the Internet costs a little less than 4 euros. According to the Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat will soon have 15 Internet cafes, and they will also appear in the velayats (regional centers). Students and employees of all higher educational institutions and research institutes, readers of the Central Scientific Library of Turkmenistan have free access to the Internet. ,
He also promised to reform the education system, returning schools to the provinces that Niyazov had abolished, and extending secondary school (from nine to ten years) and universities (from four to five years).
Berdymukhammedov intends to increase pensions, which were reduced by almost 20 percent in 2006. On June 12, 2007, the Resolutions “On the activities of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan” and “On the improvement of the scientific system of Turkmenistan” were adopted, creating the Academy of Sciences, the Higher Attestation Committee and the Science and Technology Fund of Turkmenistan.
With the first decree, Berdymukhammedov returned a ten-year education to schools. Uniforms of university students were also abolished, and the traditional dresses used as school uniforms for girls were replaced with dark green European-style dresses with aprons.
He also made some changes in state symbols and rituals, which are interpreted as a restriction of Niyazov's personality cult: his name was first removed from the text of the oath, and then from the anthem of Turkmenistan and replaced with the word "president" (thus, we are talking not only about the current president , that is, about Berdymukhammedov, but also about all future presidents, without glorifying a specific person).
Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov has canceled the mass celebration of his birthday, canceled mandatory concerts dedicated to his visits to various regions of the country, as well as the oath of allegiance to the president, which was taken by employees, students and schoolchildren.
On June 29, 2007, on the night of the newly elected president's birthday, the logo of the TV channels in the form of the image of the golden bust of Turkmenbashi disappeared from the programs of Turkmen television. The reports of the Russian information services that this happened on July 6 were almost a week behind the fact.
Order "Watan" ("Watan" - "Motherland") (2007)
Order "Galkynyş" ("Galkynysh" - "Revival")
Order "Prezidentiň Ýyldyzy" ("President Yildyzy" - "Star of the President")
Order of the President of Turkmenistan "Garaşsyz Türkmenistana bolan beýik soýgusi üçin" ("Garashsyz of Turkmenistan bolan beyik soygusi uchin" - "For great love for Independent Turkmenistan")
Medal "Watana bolan soýgusi üçin" ("Watana bolan soygusi uchin" - "For the love of the Motherland")
Medal "Turkmenistanyn Garaşsyzlygynyn 11 ýyllygyna"
Anniversary medal "10 years of Astana" (Kazakhstan, 2008)
The logic of the decisions taken by the country's leadership, and in some states the political system, is largely determined by the personality of the chief leader. News.ru continues to talk about the biographies, families and hobbies of the leaders of the post-Soviet republics. Previous articles were devoted to the heads of Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Uzbekistan. Today the material is about the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Myalikgulyevich Berdimuhamedov.
son of a communist
The future holder of the title Arkadag (“patron”) was born in 1957 in the village of Babarap, fifty kilometers from Ashgabat, into an intelligent family of school teachers. The leader of Turkmenistan is proud of his parents, he periodically appears with them at public events. In honor of the grandfather and father of Arkadag, military units, streets and squares are called in Turkmenistan, their detailed biographies were published several years ago. From the books you can learn that the grandfather of the President Berdimuhamed Annaev was a village teacher and school director, fought in the rank of corporal during the Great Patriotic War, and was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor for his labor activity. The president's father, Myalikguly Berdimuhamedov, is a historian by education, worked at a school, then made a career as a correctional worker, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel of the internal service, and worked in the apparatus of the Ministry of Fruit and Vegetable Economy of the Turkmen SSR. The book "The Faithful Son of the Motherland" specifically notes that the president's father was a candidate member of the CPSU, in the party committee of the Ministry he was a member of the commission for the preparation of holidays, participated in various party and Komsomol meetings.
After graduation, the future leader decided to devote himself to healing people. At the age of 23, he graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Turkmen State Medical Institute and began working as a dentist in rural and urban clinics. In 1987, he went to Moscow for postgraduate studies, and three years later he defended his Ph.D. Returning home, the future leader of the republic continued to treat patients' teeth, deepened his knowledge at the same time and gradually became an assistant professor, and then the dean of the Faculty of Dentistry. In 2007, when he had already taken the presidency, it was announced that Berdymukhammedov had been awarded the degree of doctor of science in medicine.
At 40, he was appointed Minister of Health. This fact, as well as the fact that in the future he did not fall under numerous purges in the government, gave rise to various gossip. Allegedly, the rapid rise was facilitated by the fact that Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov is actually the illegitimate son of the former President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov. Moreover, the external resemblance of the former and current leaders is striking. If we hypothetically imagine such a version to be true, it turns out that the current leader was born when Niyazov was only 17 years old.
The president has many relatives, but very little is known about what they do. Some information can be gleaned from a memo from employees of the US Embassy in Ashgabat to employees of the State Department in Washington, which was published by the Wikileaks portal. It follows from the document that the Turkmen leader has two daughters and a son, Serdar. The eldest daughter Guljakhon lives in London and is married to Ilasgeldy Amanov, a representative of the Turkmen State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources in the UK. The younger Gulshan lives in Paris and is married to Derya Atabaev, an employee of the Turkmen embassy in France, the couple has a villa on the Cote d'Azur. American diplomats also wrote that, according to rumors, Berdymukhammedov has an unofficial Russian wife named Marina, who used to work as a nurse in the same dental clinic where the head of state worked. Marina, like her 22-year-old daughter common with the president, according to the employees of the American embassy, lived in London at the time the note was written in 2010.
More information about son Serdar, born in 1981. In 2001, he received an engineering degree from the Turkmen Agricultural University and since then has managed to become a doctor of science, a member of parliament, a lieutenant colonel, an honored coach of the country, and in March 2018 he was appointed deputy minister of foreign affairs. Serdar has a wife, three daughters and a son.
Gurbanguly was the only son of his parents, but he has five sisters. Some of them hold responsible positions, for example, Gulnabat heads the national organization of the Red Crescent.
Recently, his grandson Kerimguly, the son of his eldest daughter Guljahon, often appeared in public with the president. In the summer, Turkmen television showed how the head of state, together with his grandson, perform a rap of their own composition.
The only thing known about the president's wife is that her name is Ogulgerek, and she is the same age as her husband. Sometimes Berdimuhamedov appears in public with his wife, but very rarely, she does not give interviews. Arkadag does not like to let others into his family life. But he himself has recently been present in almost every wedding photo in the country: since 2013, all newlyweds have been obliged to take a picture at the registry office against the backdrop of a portrait of the president
Handyman
The President of Turkmenistan has a wide variety of interests. In the list of hobbies and sports, which he has been involved in since childhood. At the age of 15, the future leader of the nation became the champion of Ashgabat in freestyle wrestling, and a year later - the champion of the republic in shooting. Now he has many sports titles in various international sports associations and federations, personally participates in horse racing and car racing, and watches football competitions with interest.
Another area of hobbies is music. The head of state plays the guitar, accordion, keyboards and drums, he composes songs in various genres, from pop and pop to rap. He also loves to sing, both songs of his own composition and those of other authors. This year, the president congratulated the women of the republic on March 8 by singing Igor Sarukhanov's song "Kara-Kum".
Berdimuhamedov also loves to invent and assemble technology. Recently, state television showed how the president allegedly personally designed and then built a racing car from his drawings.
But the biggest hobby of the leader of Turkmenistan is writing books, which are translated into many languages of the world by a special staff of translators in the country. Berdimuhamedov wrote volumes on the importance of sports, the need to get an education, the benefits of drinking tea, the beauty of music and nature, the importance of water for the national economy, breeding horses, and spiritual self-improvement. The encyclopedic collection in 9 volumes "Medicinal herbs of Turkmenistan" is recommended for use by all medical institutions of the republic. His last opus, published in 2018, is called "The Teaching of Arkadag - the basis of health and inspiration."