ASTANA (TCA) — United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC), a Eurasian rail alliance of Russian Railways, the National Union Belarusian Railway and national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Austrian company Rail Cargo Austria AG. The parties intend to develop relations in the field of organization of cargo rail transportation in containers on the route China – Europe – China on the railroads of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus.

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ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support domestic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kazakhstan. A new project will help INTELLPACK – a privately owned distributor of warehouse equipment and producer of stretch film and duct tape – expand its operations in the country, the Bank said on March 15.

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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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