Saparmurat Niyazov continued.

While in office, Niyazov decided to change things in Turkmenistan including:

• He wrote an autobiography called Ruhnama, that was to help guide his people with his ideas and promote native culture.
•  He renamed the town of Krasnovodsk after himself along with schools, airports and a meteorite.
• He introduced a new Turkmen alphabet based on the Latin alphabet
• He changed the names of all of the months:

• He banned lip-synching, car radios, beards and playing recorded music at weddings
• He closed down all libraries outside of the capital because he thought the only books important to a Turkman are the Koran and his Ruhnama
• In 2005 he decided to close down all of the hospitals outside of the capital, because the sick should go to the capital for treatment.
• Citizens with gold teeth had to get them extracted.