
with the notable exception of the concert-hall in Astana, which is lovely.
FUN FACT: Dushanbe is Tajik (that is, Persian that uses the Cyrillic alphabet) for Monday. The city grew from a market that used to happen there on Mondays.
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The others looked like the usual celebration of wealth and ego.
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That bank in Ashgabat and the one below in particular.
Some utter horrors too though.
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I'd take most of those ahead of half the shit that's currently being built in London.
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Clearly Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov sees himself as a modern-day Peter the Great - looks exactly like the "Bronze Horseman" in St Petersburg.
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And block a lovely view of a perfectly good temple.
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