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Officer of the Kyrgyz traffic police shot Russian serviceman from the Kant AF Base

Officer of the Kyrgyz traffic police shot Russian serviceman from the Kant AF Base

22.04.2008 08:55 msk Kyrgyzstan

An incident involving an officer of the Russian Kant AF Base and Kyrgyz traffic police patrol resulted in hospitalization of the former on Sunday night. Rushed to the intensive care unit with a gunshot wound, the Russian officer was urgently operated on (doctors had to amputate the spleen and a rib)

Elmira Ibraimova: Borders оf Kyrgyzstan comply with national interests

Elmira Ibraimova: Borders оf Kyrgyzstan comply with national interests

21.04.2008 15:50 msk Kyrgyzstan

On April 11, the Jogorku Kenesh or national parliament of Kyrgyzstan ratified the draft Kyrgyz-Kazakh border treaty signed by the heads of states in Astana in 2001. The state border itself had been drawn along the administrative borders in 1999. The parliament of Kazakhstan had ratified the document

Kazakhstan will keep Kyrgyz refineries running

Kazakhstan will keep Kyrgyz refineries running

18.04.2008 13:39 msk Kazakhstan

President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev is visiting Astana, Kazakhstan, where the second meeting of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan is about to take place. Bilateral ministerial meeting already took place in Astana. Those present at the meeting adopted a draft resolution on establ

Uzbekistan: Monument of Valor may be dismantled

Uzbekistan: Monument of Valor may be dismantled

17.04.2008 17:04 msk Uzbekistan

Friendship of Peoples monument was already moved from central Tashkent to the outskirts, and the Monument of Valor may end up there too.

Artist Vyacheslav Useinov: One has to swim against the current

Artist Vyacheslav Useinov: One has to swim against the current

16.04.2008 13:35 msk Interview Uzbekistan

Vyacheslav (Yuri) Useinov's personal exhibition "Fractal Realism" opens in the Fine Arts Gallery of the National Bank of Uzbekistan on April 17. The prominent Uzbek artist owes the exhibition to help from the Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation, Center of French Culture, Sarkor Telecom, and

Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov proceeds with economic reforms

Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov proceeds with economic reforms

16.04.2008 12:42 msk Business Turkmenistan

The decree on denomination of the national monetary unit President Gurbankuly Berdymuhammedov signed this Monday will come into force on January 1, 2009. Enlarged meeting of the Cabinet discussed interim results of the economic and social reforms. National Bank chairman resigned.

Uzbekistan: International friendship monument in central Tashkent dismantled

Uzbekistan: International friendship monument in central Tashkent dismantled

16.04.2008 00:01 msk Politics Uzbekistan

The Tashkent authorities had the International Friendship monument in front of the Friendship of Peoples Palace dismantled on April 12 night. The monument had been erected in memory of the Shamakhmudovs who adopted 15 orphans in the Great Patriotic War and became a symbol of generosity and humanism

NG: Rating of Kazakhstan is negative

NG: Rating of Kazakhstan is negative

15.04.2008 00:52 msk Analytics Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is the only CIS country with a long-term development strategy (until 2030). It aims at becoming a member of the World Trade Organization and one of the 50 best competitive economies in the world. Even Russia emulates the Kazakh experience every now and then. It founded the so called Stabi

Russia, European Union, and United States are losing Central Asia to China

Russia, European Union, and United States are losing Central Asia to China

10.04.2008 23:52 msk Analytics China

EU-Central Asian forum opened in Ashkhabad. Foreign ministers of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan will discuss the Central Asian Partnership Strategy with EU commissars. The document defining the strategy is somewhat amorphous but it is better than what Russia has whi

Real estate in Uzbekistan: The demand is outgrowing supply

Real estate in Uzbekistan: The demand is outgrowing supply

09.04.2008 10:39 msk Business Uzbekistan

Real estate prices in Uzbekistan keep going up. A one-room apartment in Andijan (Ferghana Valley) that cost $1,500-2,000 a couple of years ago according to unofficial estimates costs $8,000-10,000 nowadays.

Kyrgyzstan: Attempt to have children cured resulted in contamination and loss of family

Kyrgyzstan: Attempt to have children cured resulted in contamination and loss of family

07.04.2008 20:57 msk Ferghana Valley Kyrgyzstan

At the press conference. Photo by Ferghana.Ru news agency. Faces are concealed for ethical considerations

Uzbekistan: From free enterprise to the Soviet distribution system

Uzbekistan: From free enterprise to the Soviet distribution system

07.04.2008 12:59 msk Business Uzbekistan

The Uzbek authorities resort to the tried-and-true administrative techniques as a way of dealing with high prices. As of now, all dealers in vegetable oil are ordered to sell it 50-100% below the standing market price.

Kyrgyzstan: National Security Committee chose Russian journalists for scapegoats

Kyrgyzstan: National Security Committee chose Russian journalists for scapegoats

02.04.2008 20:00 msk Analytics Kyrgyzstan

Sultan Kanazarov, Reporter-Bishkek founder and representative of Ferghana.Ru news agency in Kyrgyzstan, is regularly summoned to the National Security Committee for interrogation. Ferghana.Ru asked Kanazarov to say exactly what the summons to the National Security Committee are about and what Kyrgyz

Uzbekistan: Urgench authorities ordered a rally of local vendors dispersed

Uzbekistan: Urgench authorities ordered a rally of local vendors dispersed

01.04.2008 13:39 msk Business Uzbekistan

An unprecedented protest action took place in Urgench, the largest city in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan, on the last day of March. Local vendors numbering nearly 200 (mostly women) protested against transfer of the bazaar to the outskirts and unfair distribution of stalls at the new site.

Kyrgyzstan: Kurmanbek Bakiyev's comment on the rumors

Kyrgyzstan: Kurmanbek Bakiyev's comment on the rumors

31.03.2008 18:41 msk Interview Kyrgyzstan

President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev returned from a nearly month-long course of medical treatment in Germany on March 28. Clearly healthy, he was met at the airport with applaud - with all of the country watching it on TV screens. In the meantime, few had believed he would ever come back becau

Central Asia desperate for a water peace

Central Asia desperate for a water peace

30.03.2008 22:33 msk Analytics Central Asia

Uneasy water and energy relationship between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is growing even more complicated. After years of serious consideration on economical and ecological appropriateness of the project, official Astana decided to build the Koksaray reservoir on the Syr Darya river basin, which is me

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