BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s former State Secretary Dastan Sarygulov has been charged with an attempt to seize power in the country, said the press office of the State Committee for National Security.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Representatives from Central Asian countries, observer states, regional and international organizations, as well as relevant experts, counter-terrorism practitioners, and civil society from across the region will gather in Almaty, Kazakhstan, between March 29 and 31 to discuss the worldwide growing trend of radicalization and its realities in the region, said the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), based in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s state energy company Uzbekenergo plans to modernize the Shakhrikhan hydro power plants cascade (UFK-1 HPP) through funds from the World Bank Group, said the press service of Uzbekenergo.
ASTANA (TCA) — The Kazakh Embassy in Beijing on March 25 hosted a meeting of Kazakhstan Deputy Agriculture Minister Gulmira Isayeva and the chairman of China National Materials Group Corporation (Sinoma), the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
ALMATY (TCA) — With income on oil sales down to a fraction of what they used to be until just two years ago, Kazakhstan seems desperate to fill the gap with increased income on other commodities it has in great quantities. This seems to be leading to a fresh wave of “resource nationalism” as the tendency to re-nationalise upstream assets is dubbed by western industrialists. In Kazakhstan, it was oil, in Kyrgyzstan gold – and now uranium is waiting for its turn. True: “commitments” have not been kept – but by whom?
