Turkmenistan's authoritarian president Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled the Central Asian country for 21 years, has died aged 66.
He renamed months and days in the calendar after himself and his family, and ordered statues of himself to be erected throughout the desert nation.
Cities, an airport and a meteorite were given his name.
His laws became increasingly personal. It was forbidden to listen to car radios or smoke in public, or for young men to wear beards.
There’s so few good men left.
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