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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan is planning to hold an international conference “Women empowerment in Afghanistan” in autumn 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan’s Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Ambassador at Large Stanislav Vassilenko said at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan late last week, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — A seminar of Kazakh-Czech Production Cooperation was held in Astana on March 14, organized by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Kazakhstan together with the Union of Machine Builders of Kazakhstan with the support of the Kazakh Ministry for Investments and Development, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoev has changed the name of the country’s national security service, a move seen as another step aimed at shaking up the long-feared main successor of the KGB in the Central Asian country, RFE/RL reported.
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ALMATY (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan has imposed house arrest on a woman who is suspected of giving financial backing to an opposition political movement established by Mukhtar Ablyazov, a fugitive critic of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Four Central Asian presidents met in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on March 15 for the first regional summit in almost a decade, a sign of improving regional ties following the death of divisive Uzbek leader Islam Karimov in 2016, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A coalition of 29 press freedom organizations from around the world has called on Kyrgyzstan authorities to drop defamation lawsuits and to end the practice of using “harsh penalties” to punish critical media outlets and reporters, RFE/RL reported.
