Toktar Toleshov (photo from the Fergana information agency)
ASTANA (TCA) — The Astana Military Court on November 7 sentenced Tokhtar Toleshov, a Kazakh businessman and the owner of Shymkent brewery, to 21 years in prison after he had been found guilty of extremism, illegal weapons possession, and attempting to overthrow the government, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
TASHKENT (TCA) — In the first nine months of 2016, Uzbekistan attracted $2.65 billion in foreign investments, 11.2 percent more than in the same period last year, the country’s official Jahon information agency reported.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan plans to create three new free economic zones in the Fergana, Samarkand, and Bukhara provinces, Uzbekistan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov said at the meeting of the prime ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member countries in Bishkek on November 3, the Jahon information agency reported.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s GDP grew 6.2 percent in the first ten months of 2016 according to reports presented on November 4 at the meeting of the Turkmen Cabinet of Ministers which reviewed the results of the country’s development in January-October 2016, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Traffic along the transit motor road corridor Western Europe – Western China through Kazakhstan (2,787 km in four lanes) will be opened until the end of this year, Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Prime Minister Askar Mamin said at a conference on the development of roads of national and local significance and roadside services on November 4, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The number of fish farms has been growing in recent years in Kyrgyzstan, and the country plans to export 1,000 tons of fish to Russia this year, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Agriculture says.
