Turkmenistan leader unveils giant gold statue of local dog

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Turkmenistan leader unveils giant gold statue of local dog

Turkmenistan’s longtime president has unveiled a huge gilded statue of a dog on a busy roundabout in the capital.

Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has also written an ode to the local alabai breed and given one of the dogs to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

The statue, which has a screen wrapped around the pedestal showing alabai dogs in action, joins another of Berdymukhamedov seated on a horse, also coated in gold, at a different junction in Ashgabat.

Dogs and horses are sources of national pride in Turkmenistan, where they are widely used by the many traditional herders among the population of 6 million.

Berdymukhamedov has run the tightly controlled former Soviet republic since 2007 and is unofficially known as the arkadag, or protector.

He has praised the alabai, or Central Asian shepherd dog, as an example of national heritage and written a book about them. He gave Putin a puppy in 2017.

The large, stocky breed is known for its prowess in protecting sheep and goats from wolves. It is also used to guard homes and in dog fights, a popular form of entertainment in Turkmenistan.

@RhapSaDiddy this could be DogSets new HQ

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Purebred Excellence Catset could and will never understand

 

[Sukairain]

This guy is fukking crazy, even by the standards of dictatorship.

Here he is doing donuts around a giant fire pit to prove he isn't dead



And here he is pulling drive-bys on a bicycle

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

This guy is fukking crazy, even by the standards of dictatorship.

Here he is doing donuts around a giant fire pit to prove he isn't dead



And here he is pulling drive-bys on a bicycle

His father renamed all the months of the calendar after using family and close friends.

built the worlds largest indoor Ferris wheel.

he banned all black cars.

The capital has buildings of white marble and empty roads. No one drives around the capital.

Restricted country. Hard to get into.

Its basically North Korea without the strong army, torture prisons, and nukes.

I researched this country not long ago and was surprised at what I saw. Beautiful capital but virtually a ghost town.

 

[PortCityProphet]

His father renamed all the months of the calendar after using family and close friends.

built the worlds largest indoor Ferris wheel.

he banned all black cars.

The capital has buildings of white marble and empty roads. No one drives sound the capital.

restricted country. Hard to get into.

Its basically North Korea without the strong army, torture prisons and nukes.

I researched this not long ago country and was surprised at what I saw. Beautiful capital but virtually a ghost town.

Is that the one with the huge highway leading to it?
I think I watched a minidoc on it. Foreigners had to stay in a whole nother city and travel and get escorted into the city.
I think this the spot.

 

[lightbearerchef]

This guy is fukking crazy, even by the standards of dictatorship.

Here he is doing donuts around a giant fire pit to prove he isn't dead



And here he is pulling drive-bys on a bicycle

earth crazy. One minute she burnin up, next min she flowin waterfalls

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Purebred Excellence Catset could and will never understand

catset not humanly genetically bred and altered. what is a purebred to a natural king?

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Purebred Excellence Catset could and will never understand

Show some respect to real gods, catset descendants of pharaohs

 

[Address_Unknown]

#GoldenGoodboiGang.

 

[tuckgod]

Purebred Excellence Catset could and will never understand

 

[El Poyo Loco]

Still not better than Dig'Em

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

I'm bout to lobby the Biden Administration for the first third world country to drop a bomb on

 

[Neuromancer]

What's God spelled backwards?

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

Show some respect to real gods, catset descendants of pharaohs

Them ugly ass flea market figurines

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

catset not humanly genetically bred and altered. what is a purebred to a natural king?

Bloodlines are everything to royalty. It's called selective breeding for a reason. Of course Catset wouldn't know anything about that