ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna Group of Companies will offer various ownership interests in 10 companies at an electronic auction by the end of July. The share sale will take place as part of the Comprehensive Privatization Plan for 2016-2020 approved by the Government of Kazakhstan, Samruk-Kazyna said.
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.
