Ndi kupanga kwa Shakespeare's "Othello" komanso ngakhale zisudzo, moyo wa chikhalidwe ku Turkmenistan ukubwerera pang'onopang'ono atatha kuima pansi pa ulamuliro wa eccentric despot Saparmurat Niyazov.
Niyazov, yemwe adamwalira mu 2006, adalamula kuti zisudzo za ku Central Asia zitsekedwe mu 2001 ndipo tsopano wolowa m'malo mwake Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov akuwona kuwongolera mosamala kwambiri.
Komabe ndi Turkmenistan, dziko lomwe kudzipatula kungayerekezedwe ndi North Korea. Kupumulako kuli ndi malire ndipo zaluso zikupitilira kugwiritsidwa ntchito polimbikitsa umunthu wa purezidenti.
Niyazov, yemwe ankadzitcha kuti Turkmenbashi (Bambo wa anthu onse a ku Turkmenistan), ankatsogolera limodzi la magulu achipembedzo odabwitsa kwambiri m’mbiri yonse ya nkhondo pambuyo pa nkhondo, amene anafika mpaka pomanga fano lake lagolide limene linkazungulira dzuwa.
Berdymukhamedov, yemwe amadziwika kuti Arkadag (Mtetezi), wayambanso kusintha zinthu movutikira ngakhale otsutsa akunena kuti akungochotsa gulu lachipembedzo la anthu.
Chitsanzo chodziwika kwambiri cha kulolera kwatsopano ku Turkmenistan ndi kupanga "Othello" ku Russian Dramatic Theatre, yomwe yakhala ikusewera m'nyumba zodzaza anthu.
"Pomaliza, patatha zaka 10 ayamba kulola kuti zisudzo ziwonekere zapamwamba zapadziko lonse lapansi," adatero Anna Leonidovna, wazaka 58, wokonda zisudzo wodzinenera yekha. "Mpaka posachedwapa, panali zochitika zotamanda a Turkmenbashi ndipo adabweretsa asilikali ochokera m'misasa ndi ophunzira ochokera ku mayunivesite aboma kuti adzaze maholo," adatero.
Pamalo ena, Dramatic Theatre, sewero likuchitidwa ndi wolemba masewero a ku Russia Alexander Volodin ndi nyimbo kuphatikizapo kusankha kodabwitsa kwa woimba nyimbo wa ku France Jean Michel Jarre. Zikhalidwe zaku Ashgabat pakadali pano zili ndi opera imodzi yokha - kutsitsimutsidwa kwa anthu akum'mawa "Layla ndi Majnun" - koma kwa ambiri izi mwazokha ndi chinthu chodabwitsa. "Zinali ngati kuti ndamera mapiko pomwe Purezidenti adandilamula kuti ndiyambe kuyimba opera kwazaka zambiri ndisanaziwike," adatero Maya Kuliyeva, wazaka 90, wojambula komanso wochita zisudzo wa anthu aku Turkmen.
