Rahim Esenov, one of the most well-known Turkmen writers who openly refused to follow the orders of the Central Asian nation's authoritarian leadership, has died in Ashgabat at the age of 95. Esenov's relatives and friends told RFE/RL on April 25 that the writer died over the weekend. No cause of death was given. Esenov openly rejected the cult of personality that was created by Turkmenistan’s first President Saparmurat Niyazov in the 1990s and was blacklisted for his refusal to go along with the leader. He rejected Niyazov's demand to change the plot of his book The Crowned Wanderer which...