ASHGABAT: This Turkmenistan's capital was being cleared of all portraits of the country's absolutist President Saparmurat Niyazov yesterday in a surprise but thus far unexplained move.
Portraits of the President are to be removed from all building of state institutions and departments and replaced with posters on political themes, a spokesman for the mayor's office said.
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