TASHKENT (TCA) — Representatives of Italian company Zanotti have held talks with businessmen involved in harvesting and storing fruit and vegetables in Uzbekistan’s Namangan, the Jahon information agency reports.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Jailed Uzbek politician Samandar Kokonov has been released from prison after more than 23 years behind bars.
TASHKENT (TCA) — The United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), the United Kingdom’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and the Government of Uzbekistan on November 15 performed a final review of physical protection upgrades implemented to enhance the secure storage of radiological materials at the Republican Establishment of Radioactive Waste Burial (RPZRO). This jointly completed $330,000 project is a milestone in a broader cooperative effort to prevent nuclear and radiological materials from falling into the hands of terrorists, the US Embassy in Tashkent said on November 23.
TASHKENT (TCA) — The Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Investment and Trade of Uzbekistan plans to create four new free economic zones in the country, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reports.
Serdar Berdymukhammedov (right) on a video grab from Turkmen television
ASHGABAT (TCA) — State television in Turkmenistan reported on November 23 that the only son of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has become a member of parliament.
ASTANA (TCA) — A member of Kazakhstan’s parliament has proposed that the country’s capital city, Astana, should be renamed to honor longtime President Nursultan Nazarbayev, RFE/RL reports.
