An emigre returning after several years away says a gentle change is blowing across the country, like the wind that deposits black sand from the Karakum desert over Niyazov's white marble capital.

一个离开几年的流亡者回来说，温和的改变正在发生，就象是风把卡拉库姆沙漠的黑色的沙吹到niyazov的白色大理石首都。

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