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BISHKEK (TCA) — Officials say clashes on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have left at least one dead and several more wounded, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s deputy interior minister on July 22 visited the residential compound of former President Almazbek Atambayev near Bishkek after he had refused to obey a subpoena three times in an unspecified criminal investigation, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s delegation held negotiations with the Acting President and Chief Executive Officer of Overseas Private Investment Corporation David Bohigian, in Washington, the Jahon information agency reported on July 22.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s largest state-owned enterprise, the oil and gas company Uzbekneftegas (UNG), will be restructured to improve its long-term sustainability and credit quality following a decision by the country’s government to implement a corporate transformation plan prepared with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s economy grew by around two percent in 2018 despite progress in economic policies, likely leading to further increases in poverty and deterioration in living standards, according to the World Bank’s recent Afghanistan Development Update.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Over the weekend, the social media and some Internet-based news outlets, citing unofficial sources, reported on the alleged death of Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. Late on July 21, an official from Turkmenistan’s Embassy in Russia told the news agency Interfax that reports about the death of President Berdymukhammedov are “fake”.
