The club earned the attention of football fans all over the world with its unbelievable domestic results FK Arkadag. From Getty Images Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia that the western world knows very little of. It is home to 7 million people and declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1990 and has since then been ruled by yet another totalitarian regime, that of the Türkmenbaşy or "Head of the Turkmens", the President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov, who then died and left all power to his vice-president, who won a non-democratic election and now rules together with his own son. The country, often criticized for its poor record as far as human rights are concerned, owes its wealth to the massive amount of natural resources it sits on, in particular gas, and to be fair the money earned through this export was used (until 2019) to provide free electricity and water to all citizens, although a lot of it was invested in the construction of surreal cities ...
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