Olivier Hein, "Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan" (Hurst, 2026)
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Episode: Olivier Hein, "Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan" (Hurst, 2026)
Pub date: 2026-07-02
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Turkmenistan rarely makes international headlines–and when it did, it was often stories that highlighted things like the strange cult of personality that surrounded Saparmurat Niyazov, its first post-Soviet president, who named months after himself and made his memoir required reading.
Olivier Hein joins us on the…
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