Diary: In Ashgabat
James Lomax, 30 July 2020
Monument to Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, the president of Turkmenistan, in Ashgabat, 2015
Iwas sitting next to a Coca-Cola sales exec on the flight to Ashgabat. ‘I hope you’ve got the right-sized photo,’ he said. ‘If you haven’t …’ He gave a short, sharp whistle through his teeth and jerked his thumb backwards: ‘Home you will...