In this new briefing paper, Human Rights Watch said that while Berdymukhamedov has begun to reverse some of the most ruinous social policies of Niazov's rule and to end the country's international isolation, the government remains one of the most repressive and authoritarian in the world.
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Human Rights Reform in Turkmenistan
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