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Kumtor gold mine: Kyrgyzstan demands 20% in Centerra Gold or $480 million

Kumtor gold mine: Kyrgyzstan demands 20% in Centerra Gold or $480 million

20.07.2007 13:14 msk Business Kyrgyzstan

Negotiations between Centerra Gold and a special group set up by the government of Kyrgyzstan began in Bishkek earlier this week. Official Bishkek insists on a revision of the terms of the agreement (2003) under which Centerra Gold was founded in the first place. The Canadians have been mining Kumto

Tajikistan denounces the reports on impending establishment of the Indian military base

Tajikistan denounces the reports on impending establishment of the Indian military base

18.07.2007 10:13 msk Tajikistan

Regnum news agency quotes its sources in the Defense Ministry of Tajikistan as categorically denouncing the reports that Aini airport 20 kilometers from Dushanbe is to be made available to the Indian military.

Uzbekistan: Government control over agriculture allowed for a record grain crop

Uzbekistan: Government control over agriculture allowed for a record grain crop

18.07.2007 09:19 msk Business Uzbekistan

Uzbek farmers harvested 6.25 million tons of grain this year. Impressed by the all-time high record, President Islam Karimov sent his personal greetings to farmers - just like Soviet leaders of the past. Not all farmers in the meantime take pride in the accomplishment. Total government control does

Tajikistan: The seventh volume of the complete works by the president was published

Tajikistan: The seventh volume of the complete works by the president was published

18.07.2007 09:18 msk Politics Tajikistan

Tajik leader Emomali Rakhmon had the seventh volume of his complete works published. Titled "Independence of Tajikistan and National Revival", it comprises the president's speeches, articles by him, and interviews with him in the period between May 2006 and May 2007. As far as the presidential press

Human rights in Uzbekistan: window dressing on the part of the state and catastrophic reality

Human rights in Uzbekistan: window dressing on the part of the state and catastrophic reality

16.07.2007 10:57 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is desperately trying to create the illusion that observance of human rights is the first priority of the regime. Several recent events, each of them nothing but a sham, are calculated to leave precisely this impression. Capital punishment was abolished in Uzbekistan and the power to orde

Experts doubt that Turkmenistan has enough gas for all customers

Experts doubt that Turkmenistan has enough gas for all customers

16.07.2007 09:53 msk Business Turkmenistan

Turkey believes it has found gas for Nabucco. Ankara intends to get it mostly from Iran and whatever else in terms of gas is needed in Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan has yet to give its consent to join he project but experts doubts that it has enough gas for all customers.

Forthcoming election of the lower house of the parliament in Kazakhstan: nomination of candidates is over

Forthcoming election of the lower house of the parliament in Kazakhstan: nomination of candidates is over

16.07.2007 09:51 msk Kazakhstan Politics

Nomination of candidates for the Majilis or lower house of the parliament in Kazakhstan is over. Seven political parties submitted their lists of candidates.

Kyrgyz farmers are through with cotton and wheat

Kyrgyz farmers are through with cotton and wheat

13.07.2007 14:25 msk Cotton Kyrgyzstan

Hurt by a crash of the world cotton market and exorbitant cost price of raw cotton, Kyrgyz farmers refuse to cultivate this strategic cropper. Shortage of water, a bane of all regions of the Ferghana Valley, does not make the situation any better.

Uzbekistan: Bread and meat prices went up with salaries of budget sphere employees

Uzbekistan: Bread and meat prices went up with salaries of budget sphere employees

13.07.2007 13:07 msk Business Uzbekistan

Goods of prime necessity in Uzbekistan responded to the presidential decree upping minimum wages, pensions, scholarships, and grants with a price-rise.

Court does not permit a Moslem girl to wear hijab to the college

Court does not permit a Moslem girl to wear hijab to the college

13.07.2007 13:05 msk Religious life Tajikistan

BBC reported the lawsuit filed by Davlatimo Ismailova against the Tajik Ministry of Education and her college administration dismissed. Administration of the Foreign Languages College in Dushanbe does not permit Ismailova to wear hijab, the traditional Moslem scarf.

Uzbekistan: more prisons - as different as possible

Uzbekistan: more prisons - as different as possible

12.07.2007 19:22 msk Human Rights Uzbekistan

A new special prison is being built in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, a facility for senior state officials. Another prison is being built as well in the republic, this one for lifers (capital punishment is to be abolished as of 2008).

Alexander Knyazev: Integration is just one of images of modern political mythmaking. And the Greater Central Asia is quite an obvious geopolitical insanity

Alexander Knyazev: Integration is just one of images of modern political mythmaking. And the Greater Central Asia is quite an obvious geopolitical insanity

12.07.2007 10:12 msk Analytics Tajikistan

Ph.d. in history, professor Alexander Knyazev gives his view of the results of International conference “Cooperation and integration Projects for Central Asia: comparative analysis, opportunities and prospects” that took place June 26-28 2007 Khudjand.

Kazakhstan: bodies of the missing Nurbank top managers discovered

Kazakhstan: bodies of the missing Nurbank top managers discovered

11.07.2007 14:11 msk Kazakhstan

Kazakh law enforcement agencies discovered the bodies of Joldas Timraliyev and Aibar Hasenov, Nurbank top managers reported missing in late January and sought ever since.

President of Uzbekistan upped the minimum wage to $12

President of Uzbekistan upped the minimum wage to $12

11.07.2007 11:56 msk Business Uzbekistan

UzA National News Agency published President Islam Karimov's decree "On higher wages, pensions, scholarships, and hardship allowances as of August 1, 2007".

Even communists stand a chance at the forthcoming election of the parliament of Kazakhstan

Even communists stand a chance at the forthcoming election of the parliament of Kazakhstan

11.07.2007 11:34 msk Kazakhstan Politics

OSCE and CIS observers arriving in Kazakhstan these days will monitor the parliamentary election scheduled for August 18. Observers are in a hurry because the official campaign of election of the Kazakh Majilis (lower house of the parliament) begins on July 16. It should be noted as well that the el

Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan: Ferghana governors set up an informal forum

Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan: Ferghana governors set up an informal forum

11.07.2007 11:32 msk Ferghana Valley Uzbekistan

Janish Kurbanov, Deputy Governor of the Jalalabad region of Kyrgyzstan, says the heads of six regions of the Ferghana Valley decided to organize an informal Ferghana Summit.

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