A land-law protester being detained by police in Kazakhstan (photo from Fergana information agency)
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor-General’s Office on May 27 said that individuals recently arrested for taking part or calling for unsanctioned mass protests are facing charges of inciting ethnic discord and of attempting to seize power by force, RFE/RL reported.
CHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan (TCA) — The United States through USAID is working with 20 museums across Kyrgyzstan on management in practices to boost their appeal as tourist sites. Local and international experts in museum management will lead sessions for museum and tourism professionals on building networks and strengthening productive cooperation. The first of four training sessions took place in Cholpon-Ata at Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk-Kul last week, the US Embassy in Bishkek said.
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.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Many action plans, economic development programs and projects have been adopted in Kyrgyzstan but most of them have had no effect. Of 33 programs planned for this year, only 22 (66%) have been drafted, Economy Minister Arzybek Kojoshev said at a Government meeting on May 25.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kumtor Gold Company, which is developing Kyrgyzstan’s Kumtor gold mine, presented results for the first quarter of 2016 at a press conference on May 27 in Bishkek.
LONDON (TCA) — The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, also known as the Shanghai Six, is becoming Shanghai Eight with the now formalized entry of India and Pakistan. For Central Asia’s former Soviet republics, it means that their troublesome neighbor Afghanistan is now sealed from the south, and the two new SCO member states will have less excuses to stand by should the Afghan civil war spill over towards the north.
