Turkmenistan’s leader, infamous for falling off a horse, unveils a giant statue of himself riding a horse

Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has made no secret of his love of horses: A passionate equestrian, he has written books about horses and was given the remarkable title of “national horse-breeder of Turkmenistan" last year. Now the Central Asian strongman's love of horses has been immortalized with a gold-leaf statue of Berdymukhamedov on horseback in the Turkmen capital. The […]









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