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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyz special police forces have arrested former President Almazbek Atambayev after they stormed his residential compound in Koi-Tash village near Bishkek defended by hundreds of Atambayev’s supporters, 24.kg news agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s former President Almazbek Atambayev on August 8 said he and his supporters will head to the Media Forum building in Bishkek, which he owns and which houses his Aprel TV company, from where he will lead the group to the government building for a rally. However, the planned rally has been cancelled, Akipress news agency reported with reference to Atambayev’s supporters. At about 4.20 pm Atambayev’s supporters started moving from his residential compound in Koi-Tash village to Bishkek but were forced back by police who used stun grenades.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — High-level representatives from Tajikistan’s Ministry of Defence, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe and the United States Embassy participated in the official inauguration of a Regional Explosive Hazards Training Centre of Tajikistan’s Ministry of Defence on 6 August in Dushanbe.
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NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The controversial rollout of encryption software to Kazakh mobile-phone users has been stopped, with President Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev saying the move was just a test that he ordered for security reasons, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyz forces withdrew from the village where former President Almazbek Atambayev resides early on August 8 after an unsuccessful attempt to arrest him in a raid that left one serviceman dead and 45 people hospitalized with injuries, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The operation of China’s Zhong Ji Mining Company at the Solton-Sary gold mine in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn province has been suspended following clashes between local residents and workers from the Chinese company.
