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Zhaina International Women’s Forum discusses female entrepreneurship, empowerment
The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – The March 4 Zhaina International Women’s Forum in Astana attracted more than 600 participants from Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Malaysia and the U.S. to discuss female entrepreneurship and empowerment. “There is a global trend of women...
Maybe ‘Jews’ but not Kremlin meddled in US election: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: AFPMOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin suggested in a US television interview that Ukrainians, Tatars or “Jews,” could have meddled in the 2016 US presidential election — but not the Kremlin.”Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do...
For Tajikistan’s asylum seekers, Poland is a dead end
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The ban of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan and subsequent persecution of the opposition party activists by Tajik authorities has forced many of them to seek political asylum in the European Union, where they often get unwelcome reception. We are republishing this article on the issue by Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska,...
Putin: Maybe ‘Jews’ but not Kremlin meddled in US election
WASHINGTON: President Vladimir Putin suggested in a US television interview that Ukrainians, Tatars or “Jews” could have meddled in the 2016 US presidential election – but not the Kremlin. “Why have you decided the Russian authorities, myself included, gave anybody permission to do this?” Putin asked in the often-combative...
NLD Lawmakers Debate Pros, Cons of Proposed Protest Law Amendments
NAYPYITAW — The Peaceful Assembly and Procession Law needs to be amended because it does not comply with the military-drafted 2008 Constitution, said lawmaker U Tun Tun Hein, a Central Executive Committee member of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD). “This law is fine for people who want to stage a protest with good intentions. But if...
204th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko is the same for Ukrainians as Hovhannes Tumanyan for Armenians. Today is the 204th anniversary of the famous Ukrainian poet. Every year the Ukrainian community in Armenia gathers near the monument of Shevchenko, presenting his works. The head of the Ukrainian community in Armenia Anna Harutyunyan said: “Shevchenko connects...
CPJ alarmed as Azeri opposition journalist battered in Kiev, faces extradition to Baku
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Journalist faces extradition from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, fears for his safety
Ukrainian authorities should allow Fikret Huseynli, a journalist of Azerbaijani origin and a Dutch national, to leave the country safely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Unknown assailants on March 5 attacked Huseynli, a correspondent for the independent online … …read more Source:...
Seven years later Pavel G. found and arrested
Due to the measures taken by the officers of the Artashat Police Department, on March 9, at 01:05, after the landing of the Kiev-Yerevan flight, at Zvartnots airport, Pavel G., born in 1991, was found and arrested at 4:00 of the same day. The latter was being wanted on Part 2 of Article 215 (contraband of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances...
