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DUSHANBE (TCA) — President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon accompanied by Mayor of Dushanbe Rustam Emomali attended a bus-assembling plant’s opening ceremony in Dushanbe on March 19, the president’s press service reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Police in Astana have detained about 20 people who protested against renaming Kazakhstan’s capital after former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who stepped down from the post earlier this week, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s presidential election has been postponed by more than two months to give the authorities more time to organize the ballot and fix the problems that occurred during the October parliamentary polls, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reported with reference to the country’s Independent Elections Commission (IEC).
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ASTANA (TCA) — On March 19-20, during a working visit to China, Kazakhstan’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alikhan Smailov met with Vice-Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Han Zheng, Head of the PRC General Administration of Customs Ni Yuefeng and Minister of Finance of China Liu Kun, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — On March 20, a day after President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced his resignation and after Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev was sworn in as Kazakhstan’s acting president, the Government and the National Bank of Kazakhstan declared that the current policy to improve the well-being of the population, increase economic growth, reduce inflation and ensure the stability of the financial market will be maintained, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Former President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s eldest daughter was elected speaker of Kazakhstan’s upper parliament house on March 20, a day after her father announced his resignation. Also on March 20, the Kazakh parliament approved renaming Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, to Nursultan after Nazarbayev.
