Who is the current President of Turkmenistan. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Dossier. About work
On the afternoon of July 21, information about the death of the second president of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Myalikguliyevich Berdimuhamedov, began to be actively disseminated in the Russian-language media and telegram channels. The reference in all the media was to a single political scientist who had not previously dealt with Turkmenistan at all, but many believed immediately and immediately began to build versions: Berdimuhamedov could not die from “kidney failure”, there is poisoning. The previous president, Saparmurat Niyazov, also died suddenly, which means that we see a format of transfer of power taking root in a super-closed country.
Then the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Russia issued an official denial (although, given the regime they represent, one can trust them with the same skepticism as this political scientist), and the main source of information issued an official apology. Berdimuhamedov, according to journalists more or less aware of the situation, is in Germany, since his mother is in a clinic there in a serious condition.
The health of Arkadag himself (this is his official status of president, “patron” is translated, so as not to be confused with the “father of all Turkmens” Turkmenbashi) is also naughty: they say he recently had a kidney transplant. Still, such a simple, trivial death at the age of 61 is not at all what fits in with the image that official Turkmen propaganda paints for Berdimuhamedov.
And this image is massive. Berdimuhamedov is a writer, singer, equestrian, pistol shooter in a sitting position on a bicycle, racer, weightlifter, author of the Asian Games anthem, patron of kittens and, in general, a Turkmenator.
In a country where before that a man ruled for many years, replacing the names of the months with the names of relatives, it is difficult to surpass the level of the cult of personality, but Niyazov's personal dentist Berdimuhamedov tried very hard. All this looks comical - but this is from Moscow or even from Minsk, and in Turkmenistan, where people see nothing and no one else in the media, many people seriously think that this is how everything works. Superman President: In between writing books about the healing power of tea and horses, he saves his native country from outside enemies. Turkmenistan, by the way, is officially neutral - like Switzerland.
But Ashgabat is, of course, not Bern, but our Pyongyang: there is even a joke that the worst criminals in North Korea will face a terrible punishment - exile in Turkmenistan. This is perhaps an exaggeration, but not a very strong one: at least they are trying to have a dialogue with North Korea, while Turkmenistan seems to exist on a separate planet. They don’t burn officials with flamethrowers (but this is inaccurate), but there is simply no way out of this constant Looking Glass, where it is customary to kiss his own book presented by the president, because it is higher than the Koran or bread.
Dmitry Medvedev and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov in Ashgabat. Photo: Ekaterina Shtukina / press service of the government of the Russian Federation / TASS
A country of chic and obligatory white buildings (Berdymukhammedov really dislikes black color) and at the same time an acute shortage of food, medicines and even forms for these medicines.
A showcase that is a distorted mirror in every sense: both a personal show by Gurbanguly Vaganovich Petrosyan, and a lens for a distorted perception of the reality of all more than five million people inside. Day after day, a simple resident of some Kunya-Urgench drowns in this total lie, like in the quicksands of the Karakum, about which the Soviet hit Berdimuhamedov so fervently sang.
But life in this microcosm for Berdimuhamedov only seems to be going on in a “relaxation”. Palace intrigues in a country where everyone lies to everyone are heated to the limit, but you yourself never understand who to be afraid of and who to bring closer to yourself. Berdymukhammedov himself came to power in such a way: when Saparmurat Niyazov died, Arkadag took advantage of the general confusion and, with the participation of the special services, declared himself the heir of Turkmenistan, and then the same special services first of all cleared it out. Now the situation is even worse: it is always more difficult to defend power than to win it. When health begins to fail, one must also transfer one's powers to someone. Transit of power, be it wrong.
Berdimuhamedov has a son, Serdar, who is clearly being considered as a successor: on television he is called the “son of the people”, and this year the 37-year-old colonel, an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a process engineer, a doctor of technical sciences and a chief specialist of the Office for the Beer, Non-Alcoholic and Wine Industry The Association of Food Industry of Turkmenistan also became the khakim (governor) of the most important Akhal velayat, that is, the Ashgabat region.
The son will certainly be on his side in the event of an attempted palace coup, but one cannot be sure of this either: at one time, Berdimuhamedov Sr. was called the illegitimate son of Niyazov (they are really very similar) and, they say, could help speed up the replacement of Turkmenbashi with his beloved . History tends to repeat itself, and in a country like Turkmenistan, you can never know exactly at what point the spiral will start a new turn.
This is the biggest pain of a president-dictator: no one can be trusted.
You and your family can't even get sick in your own country, because even with a discount on the lack of medicines, the road to the hospital can always be the way to the finish line
(And for some reason their own recipes for tea treatment do not help). People applaud your shooting from a rifle at targets falling before the shot, but behind your back they secretly hope that you will die quickly. Berdimuhamedov could already feel it to the fullest when in 2013 during the race he fell off his horse at full speed, now he has to live these feelings again.
One can console oneself: although the next ruler of Turkmenistan will certainly have a hand in ensuring that Arkadag quickly leaves his post for eternity, it will be extremely difficult for him to find an area of human existence in which Berdimuhamedov would no longer become a pioneer.
Place of birth, education. Born 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. In 1987, he entered graduate school in Moscow, from which he graduated in 1990 and received the degree of Candidate of Medical Sciences.
Career. Since 1979 he worked in Ashgabat as a dentist. In 1990-1995 held the positions of an assistant of the Department of Therapeutic Dentistry, Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry of the Turkmen State Medical Institute.
In 1995, Berdymukhammedov became the director of the dental center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan. In May 1997, he was appointed Minister of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan. In addition, in 1998 he headed the International Medical Center named after Saparmurat Niyazov. On April 3, 2001, Berdymukhammedov, in addition to his ministerial position, received the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan, responsible for health, education and science. Since August 2004, he began to oversee culture and the media.
In July 2003, Berdymukhammedov headed the state commission for admission to higher educational institutions, which became possible to enter only after two years of work in the chosen specialty, and not immediately after graduation. Four months later, Berdymukhammedov was reprimanded by the president for the low level of qualifications of Turkmen doctors, but retained his post. In April 2004, Niyazov fined Berdymukhammedov three months' salary for about half of Turkmenistan's wage arrears in education and health care. According to some reports, Berdymukhammedov was at one time Niyazov's personal doctor.
On November 28, 2006, instead of Niyazov, Berdymukhammedov took part in a meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State. On the night of December 20-21, 2006, Niyazov died of sudden cardiac arrest. On December 21, 2006, Berdymukhammedov became the interim president of Turkmenistan.
On December 26, 2006, Berdymukhammedov was elected chairman of the Congress of the People's Council, which on that day changed the Constitution, passed the law on presidential elections, set the date for the presidential election, and approved six candidates.
On February 12, 2012, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov won an absolute majority of votes (97.14%) in the presidential elections and was recognized as the elected president of Turkmenistan.
On February 2, 2017, he was re-elected head of state for the third time.97.69% of voters voted for him.
Views and assessments. Berdymukhammedov lifted a number of restrictions imposed by Niyazov. Thus, the ban on foreign periodicals, opera and circus was lifted. In addition, the new president opened Internet access for the population. Immediately after taking office, he carried out an educational reform, returning the school ten-year-old and replacing the traditional dresses for girls with modern European-style uniforms. In addition, Berdymukhammedov led the fight against the personality cult of Turkmenbashi: the name of Niyazov in the text of the oath and the anthem was replaced by the word "president".
Berdymukhammedov's economic policy of that time was characterized by a desire to get closer to the West. In October 2007, Turkmenistan, together with Georgia, refused to sign the CIS Development Concept, which envisaged the formation of an "integrated economic and political association of interested states." Berdymukhammedov supported the idea of a Trans-Caspian gas pipeline that would allow Europe to receive Turkmen gas bypassing Russia. At the same time, a final agreement was reached between Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russia on the start of construction of the Caspian gas pipeline, which should increase the volume of Turkmen gas supplies to the Russian Federation.
At the initiative of Berdymukhammedov, the Constitution was adopted, which abolished the People's Council - the highest body of legislative power, and, according to experts, significantly increased the powers of the head of state.
2009 was marked by new reforms. Thus, Berdymukhammedov approved a new military doctrine of Turkmenistan, which maintained its neutral status and provided for the transition of the army to a contract basis.
In 2009, Turkmenistan announced an increase in gas supplies to Iran and the construction of a new Turkmen-Iranian gas pipeline. In addition, Berdymukhammedov announced his country's readiness to participate in the Nabucco gas pipeline project, bypassing Russia.
In 2013, the privatization of housing was allowed.
In the 2013/14 academic year, schools switched to a 12-year education system. Since 2015, in addition to Russian and English, schools have introduced the teaching of Chinese and Japanese languages in a number of schools and universities in Turkmenistan.
Regalia. He was awarded many orders and medals, including the Medal of the highest degree named after the national hero of Afghanistan Gaza Amanullah Khan, as well as the UNESCO Avicenna Gold Medal.
Hobbies. Berdymukhammedov loves hunting, perceives it as "a good excuse for an extra meeting with the many-sided nature of Turkmenistan."
Family bonds. According to some reports, Berdymukhammedov was married twice: his first wife was a Turkmen, the second was a Russian. He has one son, three daughters and four grandchildren.
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 in Turkmenistan, military units, streets and squares are named, 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 an employee of the Turkmen embassy in France, Derya Atabaev, 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 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 himself 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."
President of Turkmenistan
President of Turkmenistan. Since 1997 he has headed the Ministry of Health. In 2001, he became Deputy Prime Minister in charge of healthcare, education and science, and since 2004 - culture and the media. In December 2006, he became the interim president of Turkmenistan, in February 2007 he was elected president of the country, in February 2012 he was re-elected for a second term. Head of the government. Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan, General of the Army, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan.
In 1995, Berdimuhamedov became director of the dental center of the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan. On May 28, 1997, he was appointed Minister of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan,,. In addition, in 1998, Berdimuhamedov became the head of the Saparmurat Niyazov International Medical Center,,. On April 3, 2001, in addition to his ministerial position, Berdimuhamedov became Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Turkmenistan, responsible for health, education and science,,,, and from August 2004 he also began to oversee culture and the media.
Berdymukhammedov's activities as a minister and vice president were practically not covered in the media, as well as the work of other high-ranking Turkmen officials. It is known that in November 2002, he ordered to expand the experiment of renaming the days of the week and months of the year, as well as replacing the traditional greeting "Salam Aleikum" in favor of Niyazov's "Rukhnama" and "Shamchirag". In July 2003, Berdymukhammedov headed the state commission for admission to higher educational institutions, which became possible to enter only after two years of work in the chosen specialty, and not immediately after graduation. From July 9 to August 9, 2003, it was planned to enroll 3,920 students in 16 Turkmen universities. In November 2003, Berdimuhamedov was reprimanded by Turkmen President Niyazov for the low level of qualifications of Turkmen doctors, but retained his post,. In April 2004, Niyazov fined Berdymukhammedov the amount of his three-month salary for the fact that about half of the wage arrears in Turkmenistan were in education and health care,. According to some reports, Berdymukhammedov at one time was Niyazov's personal doctor.
On the one hand, Berdymukhammedov owed his government posts to the President of Turkmenistan, who personally dismissed high-ranking officials from time to time, preventing them from gaining connections and gaining a foothold in power. On the other hand, some experts named Berdimuhamedov among those officials who influenced Niyazov's similar decisions, thereby eliminating competitors. So, in November 2002, Berdimuhamedov and Deputy Prime Minister, who oversaw the oil and gas industry, Elly Gurbanmuradov, allegedly managed to dismiss Rejep Saparov, who was appointed manager of the presidential administration of Turkmenistan, from the post of Deputy Prime Minister. Experts then spoke about the inevitable clash of interests between Berdimuhamedov and Gurbanmuradov and relied on the latter. On May 20, 2005, Gurbanmuradov was arrested on charges of corruption and cooperation with foreign intelligence agencies in order to politically destabilize the country,. On July 2, 2005, Saparov, elected in August 2003 as deputy chairman of the People's Council (Halk Maslakhaty), was arrested for bribery, illegal acquisition and possession of weapons, abuse and abuse of office,. At the end of July 2005, Saparov and Gurbanmuradov were sentenced to 20 and 25 years in prison, respectively. Unofficial reports soon surfaced that the latter had committed suicide.
According to some reports, in September 2004, Berdymukhammedov took part in a closed meeting of the President of Turkmenistan, held in a narrow circle. Niyazov was allegedly greatly frightened by the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who announced on September 13, 2004 (after the Beslan events) that the heads of regions and republics would henceforth be appointed by the president of the country. According to experts, it seemed to Niyazov that the question of the leader of Turkmenistan would soon be decided again in Moscow. To discuss the expediency of holding an all-Turkmen referendum on "reunification with Russia," he called an emergency meeting, which, to the surprise of experts, was attended by the head of the presidential administration Saparov, his deputy Alexander Zhadan and Berdimuhamedov. It is reliably known that from September 13 to 15, 2004, the German cardiac surgeon Hans Meissner conducted another examination of Niyazov,.
On November 28, 2006, instead of Niyazov, Berdimuhamedov took part in a meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State,. A year earlier, Niyazov turned to the leaders of the CIS with a request to consider Turkmenistan not as a permanent, but as an associated member of this organization,. In the fall of 2006, Berdymukhammedov, who allegedly was Niyazov's illegitimate son, was called a possible successor to the president. True, according to experts, the same rumors circulated about the former head of the National Security Committee, Muhammad Nazarov, who was sentenced to 25 years in April 2004,.
On the night of December 20-21, 2006, Niyazov died of sudden cardiac arrest. On December 21, 2006, Berdymukhammedov became the interim president of Turkmenistan. In accordance with the constitution of Turkmenistan, the powers of the president of the country were to go to the chairman of the parliament (Mejlis), and he did not have the right to participate in new elections, which were to be held no later than two months later. However, the chairman of the parliament, Ovezgeldy Ataev, was taken into custody, and the Security Council of Turkmenistan appointed Berdimuhamedov, who was also appointed head of the commission for organizing the funeral of Niyazov, as acting president. According to some experts, a coup has actually taken place in the country. On December 23, 2006, Berdimuhamedov relieved himself of the post of Minister of Health and Medical Industry, appointing Byashim Sopyev as Acting Minister. On December 24, 2006, Niyazov was buried, and an emergency congress of the People's Council was scheduled for December 26, 2006 to determine his likely successors.
On December 26, 2006, Berdymukhammedov was elected chairman of the Congress of the People's Council, which on that day changed the constitution of Turkmenistan, adopted a law on presidential elections, set the date for the presidential election, and approved six candidates. The congress delegates, at the suggestion of the second secretary of the ruling Democratic Party, Ondjik Musaev, who allegedly remembered Niyazov's posthumous will, amended the country's fundamental law, allowing the vice-premier to act as president of the republic. The head of the Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan announced that elections would be held on February 11, 2007. Then representatives of all five velayats (regions) and the capital of Turkmenistan, which has the status of a region, nominated ten candidates. The last - eleventh - was Berdimuhamedov, whose candidacy was proposed by Musaev. Each of the nominated candidates had to be approved as a presidential candidate by two-thirds of the members of the People's Council: only five out of ten passed this selection, while Berdimuhamedov was voted unanimously,.
On February 11, 2007, Berdimuhamedov was elected President of Turkmenistan. More than 2.677 million residents of the country (98.65 percent of voters) took part in the elections, of which 89.23 percent voted for Berdimuhamedov. Already on the day of voting, the date of the inauguration of the new president was announced, despite the theoretical possibility of a second round of elections. On February 14, 2007, at a meeting of the People's Council, the final results of the vote were announced, Berdimuhamedov took an oath on the constitution of Turkmenistan and received a presidential certificate from the hands of the chairman of the CEC. In accordance with the constitution of Turkmenistan, the president of the country is the head of the government - the cabinet of ministers.
On May 4, 2007, the Mejlis of Turkmenistan awarded President Berdymukhammedov, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Republic, the rank of Army General. Prior to him, only Niyazov and two defense ministers, the former Danatar Kopekov and the current Agageldy Mamedgeldiyev, carried this military rank in Turkmenistan.
In the summer of 2007, President Berdimuhamedov received the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences and the title of Professor in the specialty "Social Hygiene and Health Organization". This decision was made by the expert commission on medical sciences of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology of Turkmenistan on the basis of many years of scientific and practical work of Berdimuhamedov. In August 2007, Berdimuhamedov was elected chairman of the Galkynysh ("Revival") National Movement and the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan.
In September 2007, during a visit to the United States, timed to coincide with a meeting of the UN General Assembly, Berdimuhamedov announced the upcoming reform of the economy and democratization of the country,. Shortly thereafter, Berdymukhammedov set about renewing his administration. Already in October, he made a number of reshuffles in law enforcement agencies, replacing the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of National Security. In March 2008, Berdymukhammedov also replaced the Prosecutor General and the leadership of the Supreme Court, and in April, the leadership of the Central Bank.
At the same time, in the second half of 2007, on the initiative of Berdimuhamedov, Turkmenistan began to abandon a number of restrictions imposed during the reign of Niyazov. In December 2007, the ban on foreign periodicals was lifted, and in January 2008, on opera and the circus. On July 1, 2008, Turkmenistan returned to the Gregorian calendar, which was canceled by Niyazov back in 2002.
Berdymukhammedov's economic policy of that time was characterized by a desire to get closer to the West. Thus, according to some reports, one of the topics of Berdimuhamedov's negotiations in the United States with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to be the opening of the gas sector of Turkmenistan for American investors. In October 2007, Turkmenistan, together with Georgia, refused to sign the CIS Development Concept, which included, in particular, the formation of an "integrated economic and political association of interested states",. In November, it was reported that Berdymukhammedov supported the idea of building a Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, which would allow Europe to receive Turkmen gas bypassing Russia. Along with this, in December of the same year, a final agreement was reached between Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Russia on the start of construction of the Caspian gas pipeline, which should increase the volume of Turkmen gas supplies to Russia.
On April 18, 2008, Berdimuhamedov announced the creation of a special commission whose task was to create a new version of the Turkmen constitution. Her draft, published in July 2008, implied, in particular, the abolition of the highest body of state power - the People's Council, whose powers were divided between the president and parliament. On September 26, 2008, at the last meeting of the People's Council, a new version of the constitution was adopted, according to some experts, it significantly increased the powers of the president.
In October 2008, the Izvestiya newspaper reported on the published book "Teacher, Warrior, Citizen. Berdimuhamed Annaev's Life-Feat", dedicated to the story of Berdimuhamedov's paternal grandfather's life path. The genealogy of the head of state and the history of his ancestral village Yzgant were also given there. "It seems that the republic is smoothly entering the new era of Turkmenbashi-2," the article noted. In the same month, the World Karate Federation awarded President Berdymukhammedov with a 6th dan black belt "for his outstanding contribution to the development of the national sport." According to Turkmen television, the president of Turkmenistan received a black belt in karate in connection with the 17th anniversary of the country's independence.
In January 2009, Berdimuhamedov announced the need for new reforms related to "the creation of a new base of political, economic, social and cultural legislation",. Shortly thereafter, Berdimuhamedov reorganized the composition of the Turkmen government: Defense Minister Mamedgeldiyev, Deputy Prime Minister Khodjamyrad Geldymyradov, who oversaw the economy, as well as the Minister of Social Security, the Minister of Communications, the Minister of Energy and Industry and a number of other top officials, were dismissed. , . At the same time, Berdimuhamedov approved the new military doctrine of Turkmenistan, which maintained its neutral status and provided for the gradual transition of the army to a contract basis and the modernization of weapons,,. Later, at the end of May 2009, Berdimuhamedov also replaced the Minister of Internal Affairs, and in July he removed another Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Railway Transport and the Minister of Education, who was responsible for the economy,.
In March 2009, Berdymukhamedov visited Moscow and held talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Meanwhile, among the signed documents there was no agreement on the construction of the East-West gas pipeline, which was supposed to supply the Caspian gas pipeline under construction. Experts explained this by the fact that Turkmenistan continues to consider options for building gas pipelines to Europe bypassing Russia,. In July 2009, after Gazprom refused to buy the previously agreed volumes of Turkmen gas, Turkmenistan announced an increase in gas supplies to Iran and the construction of a new Turkmen-Iranian gas pipeline. In addition, Berdimuhamedov announced his country's readiness to participate in the Nabucco gas pipeline project, which was supposed to bypass Russia. In December of the same year, in the presence of Berdimuhamedov, as well as the leaders of China, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Hu Jintao, Nursultan Nazarbayev and Islam Karimov, the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline was opened, which, according to experts, significantly reduced the economic dependence of the Central Asian republics on Russia. A week later, during Medvedev's visit to Turkmenistan, it was announced that gas supplies to Russia would be resumed from 2010 at a price in line with European gas market conditions.
Although Berdymukhammedov stopped practicing medicine, at the end of July 2009, during the opening of a new oncology center, timed to coincide with the day of health workers and the medical industry of Turkmenistan, the president personally performed an operation to remove a benign tumor. In the same month, Berdymukhammedov was elected an academician of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. In July 2010, Berdimuhamedov was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Economics "on the basis of the totality of fundamental scientific works".
On July 7, 2011, a series of explosions took place in the Turkmen city of Abadan. While the country's official media reported on the ignition of pyrotechnics intended for fireworks, which killed fifteen people, non-state sources claimed explosions at an ammunition depot, resulting in the deaths of almost fourteen hundred people. Berdimuhamedov himself indicated that "virtually a new city" would be built on the site of the old Abadan,,,.
In October 2011, during the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Turkmenistan's independence, Berdymukhammedov was awarded the title of Hero of the country and the accompanying gold medal "Altyn Ai" ("golden month"). Noting the merits of the president, speakers at the Council of Elders called him "Arkadag" ("patron") - Berdimuhamedov has been called that regularly since 2010 and, as reported in the press, this could become his official title, like Niyazov's "Turkmenbashi",,.
In mid-December 2011, on the eve of the next presidential election, at a joint meeting of representatives of the Democratic Party and a number of public organizations, Berdimuhamedov was nominated as a candidate for the post of head of state. In the elections held on February 12, 2012, Berdimuhamedov was formally opposed by seven candidates, but according to the official results of the vote, the incumbent was re-elected for a second term: 97.14 percent of voters voted for him with a turnout of over 96 percent,. On February 17, 2012, Berdymukhammedov officially entered his second presidential term.
Berdimuhamedov is the author of two books published in 2007 - a collection of articles "Scientific foundations for the development of health care in Turkmenistan" and "Turkmenistan - a country of healthy and highly spiritual people" . In October 2008, Ashgabat hosted the presentation of another book by the Turkmen president, which was dedicated to horses and is called "Akhal-Teke - our pride and glory". In December of the same year, the first volume of Berdimuhamedov's selected works entitled "Towards New Heights of Progress" was published, in June 2009 - the second volume of the same publication. In July 2009, the first volume of Berdimuhamedov's fundamental work "Medicinal Plants of Turkmenistan" was published in Turkmen, English and Russian versions, in June 2010 the second volume of this publication was published, in March 2012 it became known about the appearance of the third volume. In October 2011, the presentation of two more works by Berdimuhamedov took place - the book "Living Legend", dedicated to Turkmen carpet weaving, and the novel "A good name is imperishable", published in Turkmen and Russian, which described the life of "teacher and warrior" Berdimuhamed Annaev, the president's grandfather,.
In August 2010, Berdymukhammedov became president of the International Akhal-Teke Horse Breeding Association.
In June 2009, the Berdimuhamedov Museum opened in Ashgabat. In February 2011, the King of Bahrain, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, awarded Berdymukhammedov with the kingdom's highest award, the First Class Order of Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa.
According to some reports, Berdymukhammedov was married twice: his first wife was a Turkmen, and the second was a Russian. He has one son, three daughters and four grandchildren.
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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 themselves the banal question: “How did a yellow-mouthed chick, who did not serve in the army 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, to 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: the president is the president for that. 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 (NRCST). 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 actual leader, tell about the new orders and methods of management 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 provide assistance to 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 unimpeded 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.