Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Russian ruble should be made the currency of settlements in the Eurasian Economic Union, Board Chairman of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) Andrey Belyaninov recently said at a conference of the Russian TV business channel RBC “Window of opportunities: Investments and new projects in Eurasia”.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Government of Japan has made a contribution of US$600,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to support rural women in Kyrgyzstan in order for them to play a greater role in entrepreneurship and farming, the WFP said on July 9.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat, in partnership with the Embassy of the United Kingdom, hosted a visit to Ashgabat by Professor Peter Frankopan of Oxford University as part of a program to promote dialogue on the historic legacy of the Silk Road.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The European Union and UNICEF launch a new programme to protect children affected by migration in countries across Southeast, South and Central Asia, including Kyrgyzstan, the Delegation of the European Union to the Kyrgyz Republic said on July 6.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Branch of the German CARITAS Association in Tajikistan jointly with the Local Government Authority of Ayni district and its partner Public Organizations “ASTI” and “DARO” on the eve of the Day of Persons with Disabilities and Elderly People which is marked on July 8 every year in Tajikistan, organized a friendly wheelchair basketball match between wheelchair basketball teams of Dushanbe city and Sughd region that was attended by the representatives from government, non-government and international organizations, and residents of Ayni district, particularly disabled children and their family members.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is cultivating the cult of personality of late President Islam Karimov in order to consolidate his power and to bolster the legitimacy of his own rule. We are republishing this article on the issue, written by Joanna Lillis, originally published by Eurasianet:
