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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The Government meeting on June 11 chaired by Prime Minister Askar Mamin summed up the results of the country’s socio-economic development for January-May 2019, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Tourist facilities should be created in every Kyrgyz village where residents can participate in tourism promotion. The tourism sector should be profitable, consistently providing revenues to the state budget and creating additional jobs in the regions, Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziyev said on June 7 at a meeting to discuss the development concept of the newly created Kyrgyz Tourism State Enterprise.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s delegation took part in Russia’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2019) last week. During the event, representatives of Kazakh Invest national investment promotion company held a series of meetings with leading companies and organisations in Russia, Kazakh Invest said.
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Reports from Kazakhstan say authorities have been arresting demonstrators in some districts of the country’s largest city, Almaty, after hundreds of people gathered to protest the official results of the June 9 presidential election, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Citing preliminary results, Kazakhstan’s election authorities said on June 10 that interim President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, former President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s handpicked successor, had won more than 70 percent of the vote in the June 9 snap presidential elections.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Strategy for the future of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) was discussed during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum held in Russia last week. It was emphasized that membership in the economic group is tangibly beneficial for economies of the EEU member countries — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia, the Roscongress Foundation reported.
