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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan, has begun to issue jail sentences against detained participants in a May Day protest against the country’s longtime leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and his family, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Hungary Mihaly Varga visited Kazakhstan in the framework of the Kazakhstan-Hungarian Business and Investment Forum held on April 29, the Kazakh Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe supported the Government of Tajikistan in launching Tajikistan’s Trade Portal in Dushanbe last week, which helps to intensify and increase access to trade information and comply with the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement.
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KABUL (TCA) — The U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan has stopped releasing data showing the number of Afghan districts and the percentage of their population controlled by the Kabul government compared to the Taliban, RFE/RL reported.
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ALMATY (TCA) — Dozens of protesters have been detained across Kazakhstan as several hundred people took to the streets to call for the release of all political prisoners and a boycott of the upcoming presidential election, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan has repatriated 84 minors from Iraq, where their Tajik mothers have been imprisoned under charges of belonging to the extremist group Islamic State (IS) or are awaiting trial, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
