BISHKEK (TCA) — A group of civil rights activists rallied in front of the Kyrgyz parliament building to protest a proposal to ban foreign individuals and organizations from owning and establishing media outlets in the country, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov (left) speaks at the Congress of Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs (Atameken photo)
ASTANA (TCA) — On June 16, Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Masimov took part in the 3rd Congress of the country’s National Chamber of Entrepreneurs Atameken, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — On June 16 participants of the 3rd Congress of the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan adopted the Kazakhstan Entrepreneurs Charter against corruption, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Money taken out of the economy of Kazakhstan in the form of bribes would be enough for building 628 schools and 1,256 kindergartens, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported citing the Deputy Head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Alik Shpekbayev.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — At a meeting with local entrepreneurs at Turkmenistan’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on June 8, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said that the state budget allows for maintaining benefits for the residents of Turkmenistan, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan independent website reported citing official Turkmen media. The existing benefit program provides for free quotas for electricity, natural gas and water to the citizens of Turkmenistan.
BISHKEK (TCA) — According to the Central Bank of Russia, in the first quarter of 2016 money remittances from Russia to CIS countries amounted to $914 million, which is almost twice as less than in the first quarter 2015 ($1.781 billion) and 3.7-fold less than in the same period in the pre-crisis year 2014 ($3.364 billion).
