She never talks about her personal life.
Avoids communication with neighbors with whom she has lived side by side for more than one year.
Afraid to admit who her husband is.
She is the wife and now widow of the late President of Turkmenistan, Muza Niyazov.
MK reporters visited the Moscow house where the former first lady of Turkmenistan lives today.
Several brick high-rise buildings on Udaltsova Street, in the south-west of the capital, were considered elite housing under Brezhnev - employees of the Council of Ministers were settled there. House number 32 was built in the 70s. The wife of the late president of Turkmenistan, Muza Niyazov, settled here in the late 80s. Apart from my husband...
Near the only entrance - a few dozen expensive foreign cars. At the entrance - a young guard.
The apartments here are only 2- and 3-room, with a total area of about a hundred meters, isn't it luxurious by Soviet standards? - the tenant of the house Spartak Malakhov stops nearby. - In our yard, for example, there is an exit to the secret Metro-2 line, which leads directly to the Kremlin. Don't believe? Do you want me to take you there? And a stone's throw from here is a bomb shelter. This is a modal object. Therefore, now an underground garage has been built there to avert eyes ...
Today, there are few famous residents left here. It is known that one of the apartments was inherited by Gromyko's grandson. His neighbor is former chairman of the Council of Ministers of Uzbekistan Gairat Kadyrov.
What are you! Muza Alekseevna - the wife of the President of Turkmenistan? - Gairat Khamidullaevich was surprised. - You surprised me! She never mentioned this fact. And outwardly, she does not look like the president's wife. He dresses simply - gold, does not wear diamonds. The only thing that surprised me was that she was painfully silent, she never gossiped with her housemates. Now I understand why.
After all, I was close friends with her husband Saparmurat at one time. He then headed the Council of Ministers of Turkmenistan. We often met at common events. We often gathered at the same table - I, Niyazov and Nazarbayev. The company was right! I was much older than Saparmurat. I remember once we arrived at the hotel with him, we decided to have a drink. And I, as a senior, easily say to Niyazov: “Run for vodka.” He ran...
As for Musa Alekseevna, she is a modest, sympathetic, polite woman. I often came to her, they decided on the issue of signing the protocol for the maintenance of our house. So she, unlike other tenants, never argued about money, she always gave the amount that we demanded.
Mikhail Fedorovich has been working as a security guard in an elite house for about two years. During this time, he managed to take a closer look and get to know many residents. But it was not possible to find a common language with Niyazova.
I know Musa Alekseevna, - the interlocutor perked up. - I would hardly pay attention to her in ordinary life. She is an inconspicuous woman - fair, slightly above average height, quite large. Almost no one in the house knows that she is Niyazov's wife. I had such considerations when a black Mercedes with embassy numbers began to follow her, however, for some reason, without special signals. Niyazova's driver - such a hefty formidable Turkmen - went up to her floor and always accompanied her to the car door. I then got into a conversation with the local peasants, and someone whispered to me: “Don’t you know, this is the wife of Turkmenbashi!” By the way, I don't think she has ever traveled by public transport. If she had to get out for some urgent business, she always called the car. She just went to the store herself. Although what is there to walk - a supermarket is located right in our house. According to the guard, Muza Alekseevna worked at the Embassy of Turkmenistan a year ago. Recently retired.
I always greet her first, she only nods her head in response, - continues Mikhail Fedorovich. - To ask her about her personal life, I confess, I was afraid. After all, the wife of such a man! You never know! Although he understood that they had not lived together for a long time with their husband. Probably, Turkmenbashi needed young girls ... Muza Alekseevna dressed, by the way, it didn’t matter. For example, she wore an inexpensive fur coat, while other neighbors would have richer clothes. In addition, she has been wearing this coat for two winters - somehow undignified for the wife of the president.
We rise to the second floor. Above the door of Muza Niyazova's luxurious 100-meter three-room apartment, a CCTV camera peephole has been installed. Recently, an alarm was installed in her apartment.
I have not seen Muza Alekseevna for about a month, probably, she left for Turkmenistan, - the interlocutor confesses. - She will live here for three months, and then for a long time she is not seen, not heard. It was rumored that she went to visit children abroad. In Moscow, she would be bored alone. Guests rarely visited her. I have never even seen her with her friends. Sometimes some elderly woman, like a sister, visited her. A young spectacular girl came to Muza Alekseevna several times - perhaps her daughter. But I never met my son. I was also surprised by the fact that she did not have a housekeeper.
Many media have repeatedly reported that the house where Muza Niyazova lives is under constant surveillance by the special services of Turkmenistan. However, my interlocutor denied this information.
What are you! What intelligence agencies? Her only protection is me. No one was ever on duty near our entrance. You see, in our yard even the car park is ownerless, no one guards it. Despite the fact that Muza Alekseevna is often absent, she pays us regularly. We collect from each tenant 100-200 rubles a month. Who is richer, of course, throws us more money. But Muza Alekseevna does not belong to these patrons.
Already on the street, I ran into a woman, a neighbor of Niyazova, who asked the newspaper not to mention her name.
Few people knew that Turkmenbashi's wife lives in our house. But those who were in the know tried to bypass it. She herself did not make contact. But as people get older, they become more curious. Somehow I could not stand it and gently asked the Muse about the fate of her children. She said that they have a serious business and they live abroad. As for her husband, she said dryly: “We didn’t get a life together.” And when my friend asked her point-blank if it was true that her husband was the president of Turkmenistan, she silently lowered her eyes: “You misunderstood. We're just cousins." We never got to talk to her again. She always gave the impression of an unsociable woman and, it seems, is embarrassed by such a relationship ...
FROM THE DOSIER "MK"
At the Kirov plant in St. Petersburg, where Turkmenbashi once worked as a simple moulder, about 50 personal files were lost, including the Turkmenbashi “leaflet”. This happened around 1992. It is not known whether the special services removed these documents on purpose or it was a simple negligence of the plant workers, which played into the hands of the President of Turkmenistan.
But it is known for certain that the face of the late political leader, once hanging among the leaders of production, was deliberately removed. This is evidenced by eyewitnesses of the events (at that time, citizens close to the management of the plant reported that “people in civilian clothes” strongly recommended that this person be dispensed with).
The full name was Izvestiya Sovetov Narodnykh Deputatov SSSR. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Izvestia now describes itself as a "national" newspaper of Russia; the newspaper was owned by a vast holding company of Vladimir Potanin which had close ties with the government. A controlling stake in Izvestia was purchased by state-owned Gazprom on 3 June 2005, included in the Gazprom Media holding . According to the allegations of the Committee to Protect Journalists , Raf Shakirov, editor-in-chief of Izvestia, was forced to resign because the government officials did not like the paper's coverage of the Beslan school hostage crisis . Other sources informed that Potanin had asked him to leave for fear the Kremlin would be riled by the explicit photographs of the massacre published by Izvestia; as of 2005, the circulation of Izvestia was 240,967. Its 2007 circulation certified by TNS Gallup Media was 371,000 copies; until his death on 1 October 2008, the chief artist was Boris Yefimov , the centenarian illustrator who had worked as Joseph Stalin's political cartoonist .
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A widow is a woman whose spouse has died and a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The treatment of widows and widowers around the world varies. A widow is a woman; the state of having lost one "s spouse to death is termed widowhood. These terms are not applied to a divorcé following the death of an ex-spouse; the term widowhood can be used for either sex, at least according to some dictionaries, but in societies where the husband is the sole provider, his death can leave his family destitute, the tendency for women to outlive men can compound this, as can men in many societies marrying women younger than themselves. In some patriarchal societies, widows may maintain economic independence. A woman would carry on her spouse's business and be accorded certain rights, such as entering guilds. More widows of political figures have been among the first women elected to high office in many countries, such as Corazón Aquino or Isabel Martínez de Perón .
In 19th-century Britain, widows had greater opportunity for social mobility than in many other societies. Along with the ability to ascend socio-economically, widows—who were "presumably celibate"—were much more able to challenge conventional sexual behavior than married women in their society. In some parts of Europe , including Russia , Greece and Spain , widows used to wear black for the rest of their lives to signify their mourning, a practice that has since died out. Many immigrants from these cultures to the United States as the 1970s have loosened this strict standard of dress to only two years of black garments. However, Orthodox Christian immigrants may wear lifelong black in the United States to signify their widowhood and devotion to their deceased husband. In other cultures, widowhood customs are stricter. Women are required to remarry within the family of their late husband after a period of mourning. With the rise of HIV/AIDS levels of infection across the globe, rituals to which women are subjected in order to be "cleansed" or accepted into her new husband"s home make her susceptible to the psychological adversities that may be involved as well as imposing health risks.
It may be necessary for a woman to comply with the social customs of her area because her fiscal stature depends on it, but this custom is often abused by others as a way to keep money within the deceased spouse's family. It is uncommon for widows to challenge their treatment because they are "unaware of their rights under the modern law…because of their low status, lack of education or legal representation.". Unequal benefits and treatment received by widows compared to those received by widowers globally has spurred an interest in the issue by human rights activists; as of 2004, women in United States who were "widowed at younger ages are at greatest risk for economic hardship." Married women who are in a financially unstable household are more to become widows "because of the strong relationship between mortality and wealth." In underdeveloped and developing areas of the world, conditions for widows continue to be much more severe. However, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, while slow, is working on proposals which will make certain types of discrimination and treatment of widows illegal in the countries that have joined CEDAW .
The phenomenon that refers to the increased mortality rate after the death of a spouse is called the widowhood effect .. It is “strongest during the first three months after a spouse"s death, when they had a 66-percent increased chance of dying. ” Most widows and widowers suffer from this effect during the first 3 months of their spouse's death, however they can suffer from this effect on in their life for much longer than 3 months. There remains controversy over whether women or men have worse effects from becoming widowed, studies have attempted to make their case for which side is worse off, while other studies try to show that there are no true differences based on gender and other factors are responsible for any difference. A recent study shows that holding post-materialist views provides greater levels of well-being in widowhood. "postmaterialist values not only lead to a new way of living for singles, but free singles from feeling judged in doing so, hence encourage them to adapt accordingly.
". Of all unmarried groups, widowed people benefit the most from these values. A variable, considered important and relative to the effects of widowhood is the gender of the widow. Research has shown that the difference falls in the burden of care and how the react after the spouse's death. For example, women carry more a burden than men and are less willing to want to go through this again. After being widowed, however, and women can react differently and have a change in lifestyle. A study has sought to show that women are more to yearn for their late husband if he were to be taken away suddenly. Men on the other hand tend to be more to long for their late wife if she were to die after suffering a long, terminal illness. Another change that happens to most men is. For example, without a wife there, he is more to not watch what he eats like he would if she were there. I
In 1736–1737 the city suffered from catastrophic fires. To rebuild the damaged boroughs, a committee under Burkhard Christoph von Münnich commissioned a new plan in 1737; the city was divided into five boroughs, the city center was moved to the Admiralty borough, situated on the east bank between the Neva and Fontanka . It developed along three radial streets, which meet at the Admiralty building and are now one street known as Nevsky Prospekt , Gorokhovaya Street and Voznesensky Prospekt . Baroque architecture became dominant in the city during the first sixty years, culminating in the Elizabethan Baroque , represented most notably by Italian Bartolomeo Rastrelli with such buildings as the Winter Palace . In the 1760s, Baroque architecture was succeeded by neoclassical architecture. Established in 1762, the Commission of Stone Buildings of Moscow and Saint Petersburg ruled that no structure in the
Subsequently, when Germany in its turn surrendered to the Allies and these territories were liberated under the terms of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 at Versailles , Soviet Russia was in the midst of a civil war and the Allies did not recognize the Bolshevik government, so no Soviet Russian representation attended. Adolf Hitler had declared his intention to invade the Soviet Union on 11 August 1939 to Carl Jacob Burckhardt , League of Nations Commissioner, by saying: Everything I undertake is directed against the Russians . If the West is too stupid and blind to grasp this I shall be compelled to come to an agreement with the Russians, beat the West and after their defeat turn against the Soviet Union with all my forces. I need the Ukraine as happened in the last war; the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed in August 1939 was a non-aggression agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union. It contained a secret protocol aiming to return Central Europe to the pre–World War I status quo by dividing it between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Finland, Estonia and Lithuania would return to the Soviet control, while Poland and
"Biography"
She successfully graduated from Moscow University with a degree in cybernetics. She is married and has been living in Moscow since the beginning of the 90s with her mother, Muza Alekseevna Sokolova, whose last name she bears.
"Family"
Father - - Head of Turkmenistan from 1985 to 2006 (in 1985-91 - First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, in 1990-2006 - President of Turkmenistan)
"News"
Children and grandchildren of the CIS: how do "presidential" heirs live?
The son of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, Murad, who was also called Volodya in the family, although he studied in St. Petersburg, prefers to live in Vienna. Niyazov Jr. heads a trading company that supplies tobacco and alcohol products to Turkmenistan. The president's son has a reputation as a secular lion: Murad loves Europe with its luxurious restaurants and chic casinos - they say that he often looks into such places in the evenings. Niyazov's daughter, Irina, has been living in Moscow since the early 1990s with her mother, Muza Sokolova, whose last name she bears. He is not going to return to Turkmenistan ...
Saparmurat Niyazov's son Murad was born on April 18, 1967 in Leningrad (according to another version, in Ashgabat, where his parents moved in 1967 after graduating from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute). He was given the Turkmen name Murad (however, all his friends call him Vova). Murad graduated from one of the best schools in Ashgabat, then entered the law faculty of the Turkmen State University. Gorky (now named after Makhtumkuli), then transferred to Leningrad to the Faculty of Law. After graduation, he worked as an investigator in the prosecutor's office in Moscow, and later graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Since 1993, Murad Niyazov tried to participate in various business projects. According to various sources (there is no official biography of Murad), he, using the name of his father, took part in the construction of a five-star foreign currency hotel in the center of Ashgabat, in the sale of Turkmen gas to Ukraine and other CIS countries. Murad Niyazov was said to have received 300 T-72 tanks from Ukraine for supplying Turkmen gas to Ukraine and sold them to Pakistan. This incident allegedly caused a chill in relations between President Niyazov and his son.
Murad Niyazov is not involved in political or any public activities (according to one version, his father forbade him not only to engage in politics, but also to permanently reside in Turkmenistan, especially since Murad has Russian citizenship).
Sometimes information appeared about his alleged contacts with persons close to the Niyazov opposition. Allegedly, he provided “political support” to Murad Agayev (in particular, to the Oriental and Gok Gushak firms) in monopolizing the import of tobacco and alcohol products to Turkmenistan.
In the spring of 1997, English newspapers wrote about how Niyazov's son lost $12 million overnight in a Madrid casino.
In early June 2006, information appeared that Murad Niyazov was involved in commercial transactions related to the withdrawal of the family's capital from Turkmenistan and their legalization abroad through certain structures in the United Arab Emirates.
He is spoken of as a person who tends to lead a disorderly lifestyle.
His first wife, Lilia Engelevna Toykina, is from a wealthy Tatar family; her father is a former employee of Ashpromtorg, head of the Light Industry Department of the State Planning Committee of the TSSR, then one of the leaders of the textile trade base of the republic. From her, Murad has a daughter, Yulia (born 1987), she lives with her mother in Moscow, but Murad does not maintain any ties with her.
His second wife, Elena Ushakova, is a Muscovite and was a figure skating champion. From this marriage, Murad had a daughter, Janet, in 1995, who lives with her mother in Moscow.
The third wife, Victoria Gogoleva, from Odessa, worked as a flight attendant at Turkmenavia, according to another version, for some time she was an employee of the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Austria. They have two daughters and a son - Atamurat (born 2004), after the birth of which Murad broke off "family relations" with Victoria. For some time she lived in the United Arab Emirates, but due to lack of funds she was forced to return to Ashgabat, where she currently lives with her children.
It was said that Saparmurat Niyazov "did not recognize" Murad's children from the second and third marriages and "did not give blessings" to these marriages, did not communicate with his grandchildren and did not help them.