Welcome to the “House of Free Creativity”
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
A $17 million tribute to the free press built under the authoritarian leadership of President Separmurad Nyazov.
Looks like a beautiful structure except there is only one small problem–there is no free press in Turkmenistan!
Here is the Reporters Without Borders story on the hypocrisy
http://www.rsf.org/print.php3?id_article=19370