LONDON (TCA) — Videos have emerged last week of a largely Uzbek group called The Iman Bukhari Jamaat (IBJ) fighting Kurdish forces with mortars, machine guns and crude artillery pieces — another militant group fuelling the fire of war and instability in the nearby regions.
ASTANA (TCA) — At the meeting with Kazakhstan’s top prosecutors on April 25, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev emphasized the importance of clarification to citizens of new laws passed in the country, including the Land Code, the president’s press service reported.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Elisabeth Millard on April 25 joined Tajik First Deputy Minister of Education and Science Rahmatullo Mirboboev, local education officials, and teachers in kicking off a massive book donation campaign to commemorate World Book Day.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The $1 billion-plus Central Asia-South Asia electricity transmission project (CASA-1000) will be inaugurated on May 12 by top officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The project is supported by the World Bank Group, Islamic Development Bank, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), and Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).
Azimjan Askarov
BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court on April 25 said it is ready to revise its ruling against jailed human rights defender Azimjan Askarov.
BISHKEK (TCA) — European sanctions on Russia and Russian counter sanctions on Europe, as well as new sanctions of Russia on Turkey, have forced European and Turkish manufacturers to find new ways to stay in the Russian market. A new model of export oriented cooperation between Russia and former Soviet States is now taking shape with the purpose to produce in Russia and in several Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) member countries. The new initiative “Made with Italy” is being promoted by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development as a new way of transferring technological know-how and other forms of cooperation to countries that enjoy the benefits of their membership of the EEU and are free from any form of sanctions.
