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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s lawmakers have approved a bill to designate November 16 as President’s Day, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
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OSH, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — Right across the Tajik border and under the very noses of Russian and Indian military based near the frontier, it is all-out war again in the northeast of Afghanistan and there is a pretty good chance that Afghan government troops will bite the dust in the absence of American, or eventually Russian, Indian and/or Chinese air support. Only days after the Taliban announced its “spring offensive” throughout Afghanistan, the much-feared extremists already keep the initiative both in the southwest and the northeast. Only resumed infighting between extremist forces could bring some relief for a disenchanted population in the region.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Kyrgyzstan-United Arab Emirates economic forum on April 14 in Bishkek gathered representatives of governments and business communities of the two countries.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The latest row leading to the Kyrgyz Government’s resignation has been a perfect example of the negligence with which the outgoing cabinet treated the country’s urgent economic problems. Since the outgoing PM was a technocrat from outside of the three-party parliamentary coalition, the partnership remains intact with no outlook on so-called snap elections. But the problems faced by the new team need a much better approach than till now.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) has launched a lending program for small and medium-sized enterprises through Kyrgyz commercial banks. For SMEs, the interest rate will be 5% per annum for up to $1 million loans.
