ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev says privatization of the country’s three large oil refineries is possible only after completion of their modernization projects, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 20 million to the Kyrgyz Republic to finance improvements in the municipal solid waste and water sectors from which some 850,000 people or 15% of the total population of the country will benefit, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said.
Toktar Toleshov (photo from the Fergana information agency)
ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan have accused a detained businessman of funding recent mass antigovernment protests against land privatization as part of a plot to seize power, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — As Kyrgyzstan pins big hopes on future power exports as part of the CASA-1000 energy transmission project, we are republishing this article by Cholpon Orozobekova, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
BAKU (TCA) — Member countries of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council) — Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey — are currently preparing for signing a protocol on the application of common customs procedures and standards.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani (right) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi press the button to launch the Afghan-India Friendship Dam (photo from the Indian Prime Minister’s website)
KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 4 inaugurated the Afghan-India Friendship Dam in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.
