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Turkmenistan President Announces National Holiday To Celebrate Favourite Local Dog Breed
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has created a national holiday in a bid to honour the local dog breed.
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has created a national holiday in a bid to honour the local dog breed. The holiday is aimed at praising the Alabai, which is the Central Asian shepherd dog. Turkmenistan prides itself in horses and dogs and honours its centuries-old herding traditions.
Local dog breed honoured
Gurbanguly has published a book and wrote a song about the breed. He presented it to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a puppy in 2017. In the year 2019, he handed an Alabai puppy to the then Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) Turkmenistan’s autocratic leader has established a national holiday to honor the local dog breed, media reports said Tuesday.President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov ordered the holiday praising the Alabai, the Central Asian.
Turkmen ruler establishes holiday to honour local dog breed
FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev pets an Alabai puppy, presented to him by Turkmenistan s President Gurnbanguly Berdymukhamedov in his Gorky residence outside Moscow, Russia. Berdymukhamedov has published a book about the Alabai breed and has presented Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev with an Alabai puppy, and according to news reports Tuesday Jan. 26, 2021, he has now declared a national holiday to honor the local dog breed. (Yekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP, FILE) January 26, 2021 - 10:24 AM
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan s autocratic leader has established a national holiday to honour the local dog breed, media reports said Tuesday.