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Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, the colorful president of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006, got everyone's attention by giving his nation's calendar a makeover, renaming the months and days after himself, his mother, and various historical figures he favored.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov, the colorful president of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006, got everyone's attention by giving his nation's calendar a makeover, renaming the months and days after himself, his mother, and various historical figures he favored. Niyazov also erected golden statues of himself around the country, and fulfilled every author's fantasy by making his own book of spiritual guidance compulsory reading in Turkmenistan's ...

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