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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.
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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KABUL (TCA) — Landlocked Afghanistan has sent its first export shipment to India through Iran’s strategic Chabahar Port.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajik and Russian officials have arbitrarily detained and forcibly returned to Tajikistan an opposition activist who resurfaced in Dushanbe earlier this month from self-imposed exile, human rights groups say.
ALMATY (TCA) — As the economic woes and social inequality increase in Kazakhstan, the country needs drastic changes in the governance system — something the long-serving Kazakh president has failed to do so far. We are republishing the following article on the issue, written by Almaz Kumenov, originally published by Eurasianet:
