BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development’s (EFSD) delegation visited Bishkek with a monitoring mission to discuss progress of the EFSD-funded investment projects to reconstruct a section of the Bishkek–Osh motor road and commission Unit 2 at Kambarata hydropower plant 2, as well as preparations for the project to reconstruct the Aral–Suusamyr road, the press service of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) said on February 12.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Two Kyrgyz opposition politicians who were jailed on charges of attempted power seizure have been released, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service reported.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajik authorities have issued an arrest warrant in absentia for prominent journalist Khairullo Mirsaidov, whose 12-year prison sentence was changed to a fine and community service in August 2018 in a case widely seen as politically motivated, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reports.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia is trying to maintain its economic and military influence on Central Asia states but lacks financial resources to invest in the region it considers to be its backyard. We are republishing the following article on the issue, originally published by Eurasianet:

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Real GDP growth in Kyrgyzstan is forecast to accelerate slowly to 3.9 percent by 2020, supported by all the major sectors – industry, agriculture, construction and services, according to the latest issue of the World Bank’s Country Economic Update for Kyrgyzstan.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The former head of Uzbekistan’s powerful security service is under criminal investigation, according to people familiar with the matter, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reports.

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