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Turkmenistan Orders Cultural Performers To Lose Weight -- Or Their Jobs

Authorities in Turkmenistan’s Balkan region have ordered “overweight” actors, dancers, and everyone else who is employed in the culture sector to lose weight by September 27, the Independence Day. Officials have threatened that those who fail to get slim, will be “banished” from the sector.

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Authorities in the western Balkan region of Turkmenistan have given artists in their cultural and artistic organizations a strict order to lose weight by the Independence Day holiday at the end of next month. For example, the region’s actors, singers, dancers, and musicians have been warned that if they do not reach a certain weight by September 27, they will lose their jobs and will never be allowed to work in the cultural sector again. This is…

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Radio Free Europe/ RadioLiberty broke the news in Czechia on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.
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