Turkmenistan poll gives no choice

Ashgabad - Turkmenistan's voters flooded polling stations yesterday to vote in parliamentary elections in which all 104 candidates…

Ashgabad - Turkmenistan's voters flooded polling stations yesterday to vote in parliamentary elections in which all 104 candidates support President Saparmurat Niyazov.

A leader who has crushed the opposition and independent media in this Central Asian republic of five million people, he has created a Stalin-style personality cult for himself in this former Soviet republic.

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