"corruption was cheaper to have probably rare," says in the Tagesspiegel occasion Arto Halonen film "Ruhnama - In the Shadow of the Holy Book." The film was shown yesterday, Tuesday in Berlin Arsenal cinema as part of the "power over " film festival. It shows how international companies the obscure book "Ruhnama " of the late Saparmurat Niyazov Turkmen leaders , better known as "Turkmenbashi" (leader of the Turkmens) translated. This secured lucrative contracts include DaimlerChrysler in the resource-rich Central Asian state. On the other hand, these international translations served in Turkmenistan in strengthening the personality cult of Niyazov. Both sides cheated a little: the sought Turkmen leadership to drive to its people's reputation, which enjoyed an Nyýazows abroad, the Western companies on the other hand, do not depend on the translations in their own countries from the rooftops. Accordingly, the filmmakers met with their interview requests repeatedly closed Doors in corporate headquarters.
On the subsequent panel discussion among other things, also took part in the film shown Turkmen human rights activist Ruslan Tuhbatullin. He was pessimistic about the prospects for change in the political situation in Turkmenistan for the near future. Some critics in the audience raised the question whether it would not be all too easy to criticize the companies for their business with Turkmenistan, without questioning the role of politics. A single viewer, who according to his own statement last twenty years has business contacts with North Korea felt the western approach to the situation in Turkmenistan as completely naive, since it ignores that the system there not a single leader who is based, but have much deeper roots in society. When he asked what is the point of the event, Mieste Hotopp-Riecke said of the Society for Threatened Peoples, "that even providing information about the situation in Turkmenistan, and the discussion of this constitutes a value. And Tuhbatullin saw in the dissemination of news from his foreclosed home - until recently, there should have been no public internet access - one of his main concerns.
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