By empty (2/2/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Turkmen parliament has approved a decree declaring 2005 the year of President Saparmurat Niyazov\'s book, Rukhnama. The previous two years had been proclaimed years of Niyazov\'s father and mother, Atamurat and Gurbansoltan-edzhe. In 1998, Niyazov suggested creating a program for the spiritual development of Turkmenistan.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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