Turkmen leader Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is certain to secure a third term in office in Sunday’s presidential election, maintaining his grip on power in the isolated gas-rich nation.
Berdymukhamedov, 59, has run the former Soviet republic of five million people with an iron fist for a decade after succeeding equally autocratic president-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov who died in 2006.
