Capricious former president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov.
Whilst in office he pioneered the banning of ballet, opera and circuses as being "decidedly unturkmen-like" . He quite smoking in 1997 he banned smoking in public and for government workers. In 2004 he decreed that men should not have long hair or beards. He renamed bread after his mother, and also the month of April.
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