Section: Kyrgyzstan
Young architect from Romania to enter bikepacking race in Kyrgyzstan mountains
Bagoly Levente, a young architect from the central Romania city of Sfântu Gheorghe, will take part this year in the Silk Road Mountain Race, in Kyrgyzstan. The race is a fixed route, unsupported, single-stage cycling race through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. It will take participants on gravel, single and double track and old soviet roads, many...
International conference on counter-terrorism opens in Tajik capital today
A two-day High-level International Conference on “Countering Terrorism and Preventing Violent Extremism” opened in Dushanbe today morning. According to the Tajik MFA information department, the conference is being held by the Government of Tajikistan in cooperation with the United Nations (UN), the Organization for Security and...
Kazakhstan: Astana’s Saryarka district signs investment agreements for $100 million
ASTANA (TCA) — The first investment forum of the Saryarka district of Astana was organized in the capital of Kazakhstan on April 27 within the framework of the 20th anniversary of Astana by the akimat (administration) of the Saryarka district with the assistance of the investment center Astana Invest, the official website of the Prime Minister of...
Association of Credit Information Providers in Europe and Central Asia established
BISHKEK (TCA) — The World Bank Group is supporting the creation of a new association designed to help strengthen credit reporting practices and bolster access to finance in Europe and Central Asia, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, said. In cooperation with Azerbaijan’s Financial Market...
Kazakhstan: European delegates meet local prisoners
ALMATY (TCA) — A European delegation has met with inmates in Kazakhstan whom rights activists consider political prisoners in the tightly controlled Central Asian country, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported. The delegation led by Polish lawmaker Marcin Swiecicki and the president of the Italian League for Human Rights, Antonio Stango, met on...
Facebook deletes posts linked to Russian ‘troll factory’: CEO Zuckerberg
By Joseph Menn and David Ingram SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook is expanding its response to people using the platform improperly and on Tuesday said it had deleted hundreds of Russian accounts and pages associated with a “troll factory” indicted by U.S. prosecutors for fake activist and political posts in the 2016 U.S....
The Kremlin strategy in Baikonur: putting Kazakhstan’s space program in a box?
BISHKEK (TCA) — Although Kazakhstan has big inspirations to develop its own aerospace industry, such plans are heavily dependent on Russia, which leases the country’s Baikonur cosmodrome until 2050. We are republishing this article on the issue by Anna Gussarova, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily...
Kazakhstan: police hunt for people with blue balloons in search for opposition supporters
ASTANA (TCA) — Police in Kazakhstan’s capital hunted for people holding blue balloons during Norouz new year celebrations on March 22, following fugitive opposition politician Mukhtar Ablyazov’s Facebook call for Kazakhs to express support for his banned movement by displaying blue balloons, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported....
First championship on massage to be held in Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek, March 22, 2018 / Kabar /. The first championship on massage will be held in Kyrgyzstan, the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic reported. The competition will be held on March 23 at Dostuk Hotel in Bishkek. The purpose of the event is to increase the professional level of the masseurs of Kyrgyzstan, popularize...
Kazakhstan: house arrest for pregnant woman accused of funding Nazarbayev foe
ALMATY (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan has imposed house arrest on a woman who is suspected of giving financial backing to an opposition political movement established by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive critic of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports. The court ordered house arrest for Aqmaral Tobylova, a...
