 By decree of Berdymuhamedov in January 2019, the government will gradually end state funding of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan; it will be phased out in three years.The "Obozrevatel" magazine named Berdimuhamedow the 5th of the 23 worst dictators in the world.In the Press Freedom Index (Reporters Without Borders), Turkmenistan ranks 176 out of 178.