Tuesday, 13 July 2004

TURKMEN PRESIDENT WRITES SECOND VOLUME OF \"BOOK OF SPIRIT\"

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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.
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. Niyazov argued that the main idea of the book is to provide spiritual guidance to the people, to restore the old customs and traditions and to revive the national spirit. Rukhnama is the way along which the current and future generations of the Turkmen people will advance, he said. The book\'s first volume, published in 2001, has been translated into Russian, English, French, Japanese, Urdu, Arabic, Ukrainian and other languages, including Zulu. Its print exceeds a million copies. The month of September has been named after Rukhnama and Saturday is now called Rukhgyun (spiritual day) in Turkmenistan. (Interfax)
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