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Turkmenistan isn't a country we talk about daily. Yet there are a lot of bizarre things that happen there. Run by eccentric leaders, it has a story to tell.
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Turkmenistan’s former president made a multilingual rap video introducing his country. The country came into existence in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was a Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic as Part of The Great Socialist Soviet Union since 1925. This had a new president Saparmurat Niyazov come into power who started a personality cult.