{"title":"Turkmenistan: The Son Continues the Father’s Policy","authors":"E. Potapova","doi":"10.20542/2073-4786-2023-2-160-177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20542/2073-4786-2023-2-160-177","url":null,"abstract":"On March 19, 2022, Serdar Berdimuhamedow succeeded his father, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, as president. However, no significant changes have taken place in Turkmenistan so far during his presidency: the authoritarian regime continues, there is no freedom of speech, and human rights are not protected. The country remains closed and isolated from the international community. Meanwhile, the ex-president has not weakened his political influence at all and fully controls the activities of his son.","PeriodicalId":487145,"journal":{"name":"Rossiâ i novye gosudarstva Evrazii","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135893518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}