Translation of Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian from 11.10.2007

Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan, Hojamurat Annagurbanov had his carrier burned to the ashes in the fire of Russian bazaar.

 The law abuses were identified during the check up conducted in the interior ministry as well as the investigation conducted by the State Commission under the President of Turkmenistan on citizens’ complaints on the work of law enforcing agencies. As President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted, the number of Turkmen citizens’ complaints on the illegal activities of certain officials has doubled recently. “It looks like winds of change have passed by the interior ministry where the standards of responsibility and competence fell as low as it can go,” the president said.

During the recent absence of Berdymuhamedov due to participation in the UN General Assembly, Ashgabat and Lepab region faced large scale cases of fire at the markets. “How could you allow fire to happen at “the Russian market” [in Ashgabat]?”- the country leader wondered with his voice raised.

Anyway, Geldimuhamed Ashirmuhamedov, now ex-minister of homeland security, was fired due to “the health reasons”.  So no one has suffered from the fire at the Russian bazaar, but two ministers.