By empty (7/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov announced on national television on Monday that he has written a second volume of the \"book of spirit,\" or Rukhnama, which is expected to be published in September. In 1998, Niyazov proposed the idea of developing a program for the spiritual development of the nation. The \"book of spirit,\" or Rukhnama, has become \"a code of conduct\" for Turkmen society.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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