ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on February 22 signed a resolution pursuant to which prices of various types of essential groceries, merchandise, as well as manufacturing, engineering and social works and services will be controlled by the state. However, neither prices nor the list of essential goods and services have been quoted, independent foreign-based news website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reported.

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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and the Mayor’s Office of the City of Almaty on February 25 signed an agreement by which IFC will be supporting the municipality to access long-term capital and ramp up its investments in critical infrastructure.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — On February 25, the Senior Bureau Official in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Ambassador Alice G. Wells, and Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Finance Baktygul Jeenbaeva announced the repatriation of stolen assets to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic arising from the corruption and theft of government funds by the regime of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev (who was ousted in 2010) and his son Maxim Bakiyev.

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ASTANA (TCA) — President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a decree appointing Askar Mamin as the country’s new Prime Minister. This was announced on the presidential press service official Twitter account.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia is trying to keep and possibly increase its military and security presence and influence in Central Asia, the region Moscow considers its strategic backyard. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by Dumitru Minzarari:

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ASTANA (TCA) — A two-day meeting on investment and export promotion was recently held at Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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