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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Almost 1.5 million passengers using key airports in Tajikistan annually will enjoy safer flights following air navigation systems upgrades financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Bank said on August 9.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is holding a photo exhibition from August 8 to 14 entitled “On the Edge,” in partnership with the USAID HIV React Project. The exhibition is being held in the Exhibition Hall of the Artists’ Union at Dubovyi (Oak) Park in Bishkek, and is open to the public, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Former Kyrgyz presidential candidate Omurbek Babanov, who fled the country amid a criminal probe, returned to Kyrgyzstan from his self-imposed exile in Moscow on August 9.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council was held in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan on August 9.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have charged former President Almazbek Atambayev with corruption, his lawyer Sergey Slesarev told 24.kg news agency.
The Interior Ministry has charged Atambayev over the illegal early release from prison in 2013 of one of the country’s most notorious crime bosses, Aziz Batukaev.
Atambayev will be placed in the pre-trial detention center of the State Committee for National Security until August 26, Slesarev said.
Batukaev was released after being diagnosed with leukemia.
His diagnosis was later found to have been falsified.
Batukaev, an ethnic Chechen, was sentenced in 2006 to nearly 17 years in prison for his involvement in several serious crimes, including the murders of a Kyrgyz lawmaker and an Interior Ministry official.
After his release, Batukaev immediately left for Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
Kyrgyz special police forces arrested Atambayev on August 8 after they stormed his residential compound in Koi-Tash village near Bishkek defended by hundreds of Atambayev’s supporters.
Farid Niyazov, former head of the president’s administration under Atambayev and his close associate, has been detained over taking six special forces servicemen hostage during the first, failed special forces operation to detain Atambayev late on August 7, Kunduz Joldubayeva, deputy chairwoman of Atambayev’s Social Democratic Party told 24.kg on August 9.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A Central Asian regional seminar on demarcation and delimitation practices concluded in Bishkek. The eighth of its kind, it built on the success of the previous events organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department/Border Security and Management Unit since 2011.
