Women walk by a block of flats with satellite TV dishes in a provincial Turkmen city of Turkmenabat, March 8, 2007. The Central Asian state may have a new leader who has promised to reverse cuts in education, but school teachers still go to work daily prepared to drill pupils on Niyazov's main book, the Rukhnama (The Book of the Soul). Just like China's "Little Red Book" (Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong ), even after his death, the writings of late President Saparmurat Niyazov remains central to all aspects of life. Prime-time television still features the evening Rukhnama reading.

幾名婦女八日行經土庫曼觀光城市土庫曼納巴特一整排現代化的公寓樓房前，每戶窗外均架設了小耳朵。這個中亞國家新上台的領袖可能已經同意不再刪減教育預算，學校老師每天上課仍得準備灌輸學生已故強人尼亞佐夫的最重要著作《靈魂書》。一如中國大陸的《毛語錄》，即使在已故總統尼亞佐夫去世後，土庫曼人民所有生活層面仍以他的著述為核心，即使晚上黃金時段的電視節目也以朗讀《靈魂書》 為主。