Niyazov ensured that gas-rich Turkmenistan remained one of the most isolated countries in the world, ensuring no free media, allowing little foreign travel and enacting a series of decrees that renamed the days of the week and months of the year after himself and members of his family.
In a new report, HRW said the kafala system, which decrees that a domestic worker cannot move to a new job before their contract ends without the employer's consent, trapped many women in abusive conditions.
But the new code, drawn up by David Cameron in May decrees that a PPS must toe the government line or face resignation.
James' response to the scene's omission – that "first and foremost a romantic love story" – further elucidates the supposed incompatibility between love and blood: Hollywood decrees that you have your love over here, and your blood over there, and never the twain shall mix.
Berdymukhamedov, who was formerly a dentist and then became Niyazov's health minister, presided over a very gradual liberalisation when he first came to power after Niyazov's death, reversing some of the late president's more eccentric decrees.
The ruling State Council and the country's central bank have issued numerous decrees in recent weeks designed to dampen the market and to crack down on speculation.
Late last year groups in different parts of China began simply claiming land as their own individual private plots.China's constitution decrees that rural land is owned by "collectives".
Fresh from angering Germany by praising the decrees, the Czech prime minister, Milos Zeman, pulled out of a planned summit of four EU candidates in Hungary.
Relatively undignified as it is, football offers grounds for hope here: beloved black footballers have probably done more for race relations in Britain than many decrees and activists.
Laurent Joffrin, editor of the left-leaning Libération, this week accused Mr Sarkozy of installing "an elective monarchy .Yet Mr Sarkozy's planned constitutional reforms include others to make parliament a stronger counterweight: rights to oversee presidential nominations and authorise long-term military engagements abroad, as well as limits on the use of decrees.
Signing decrees in the Kremlin on March 31st, he seemed unable to grasp that his dissolution of the government had turned all his ministers into acting ministers until a new prime minister had been appointed.
