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Turkmenistan leader dies aged 66
Saparmurat Niyazov ruled Turkmenistan for two decades
Turkmenistan's authoritarian president Saparmurat Niyazov, who ruled the Central Asian country for 21 years, has died aged 66, state TV has reported.
He died at about 0110 local time (2010 GMT Wednesday) of a sudden cardiac arrest, it was announced.
Mr Niyazov became Communist Party chief of what was then a Soviet republic in 1985 and was elected first president of independent Turkmenistan in 1991.
In 1999 he was made president-for-life by the country's legislative body.
Last month, the president publicly acknowledged he had heart disease.
Analysts say Mr Niyazov's legacy is grim: education, healthcare, society generally have crumbled under his leadership.
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