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A view shows a statue of a Turkmen shepherd dog, locally known as Alabai, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan November 10, 2020
Image: Vyacheslav Sarkisyan/REUTERS

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is one of the most reclusive and authoritarian countries in the world. A former Soviet republic, it has been ruled since 2006 by the father-and-son duo: Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and his son Serdar.

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