Last barrier to indefinite rule by Turkmenistan dictator Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has been removed

Turkmenistan has abolished rules that keep President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov from staying in power until his death, just as his predecessor did. Berdymukhamedov has ruled the gas-rich Central Asian state since the death of Turkmenistan’s first post-Soviet leader, Saparmurat Niyazov, in 2006. Like Niyazov, Berdymukhamedov has cultivated public adulation and erected a golden statue of himself while…