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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has decreed changes in the Latin-based alphabet that is to replace Cyrillic in the Central Asian country, abolishing apostrophes that came under severe criticism from linguists, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The detention of a Kyrgyz parliament member in Kazakhstan on charges of involvement in contraband at the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border adds fuel to the Kazakh-Kyrgyz tensions over reported smuggling of Chinese goods into the Eurasian Economic Union through Kyrgyzstan. The incident has also highlighted the problem of corruption in Kyrgyzstan’s customs bodies. We are republishing this article on the issue by Chris Rickleton, originally published by Eurasianet:
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The EU is continuing to offer significant support to border security activities in Central Asia. In particular, on February 21-23 Tashkent will host the National workshop on profiling of foreign terrorists fighters, conducted within the framework of the EU-funded Border Management in Central Asia Programme (BOMCA 9), the Delegation of the European Union to Uzbekistan said.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade Sahib Saifnazarov, as well as representatives of the Uzbek Agency for Automobile and River Transport told a briefing in Tashkent about the preparations for sending the first convoy with export cargo along the new motor transport corridor Tashkent – Andijan (Uzbekistan) – Osh (Kyrgyzstan) – Irkeshtam – Kashgar (China), the Jahon information agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Representatives of the Government and international community gathered in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on February 19 to raise awareness of the challenges faced by the people of the Aral region and to look for ways of solving them together. The meeting was convened by the administration of Kazakhstan’s Kyzylorda region and was supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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ASTANA (TCA) — The prosecutor in the high-profile trial of former Economy Minister of Kazakhstan, Kuandyk Bishimbaev, has asked a court in Astana to sentence him to 12 years in prison on charges of bribery and embezzlement, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
