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TASHKENT (TCA) — An Uzbek journalist and rights activist, Dilmurod Saiid, was released from prison on February 3. Saiid was arrested in February 2009 on charges of forgery and extortion and sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison. He is known for reporting on human rights violations in Uzbekistan.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The U.S. government, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has allocated over one billion Kyrgyz som to support healthy nutrition for children — the future of Kyrgyzstan — in schools and kindergartens throughout the country. The key objective of this program is to improve nutrition and literacy and primary education in the country, the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek said on February 5.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Solid waste management was one of those vital public services that suffered in Khujand, the second largest city in Tajikistan, before the local authorities turned to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which partnered with donors and other financial institutions to cover, through a combination of loans, grants and technical assistance, the costs of repairing the city’s infrastructure, the EBRD press office reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — During the month of January, Kazakhstan steered the work of one of the main UN bodies, guided by President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s policy address to the UN Security Council called Kazakhstan’s Concept Vision on Sustaining Global Partnership for Secure, Just and Prosperous World, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — A Turkmen-Chinese forum on cooperation in the sphere of tourism took place in Beijing on February 2. The forum was organized by the Turkmen Embassy in China jointly with the State Committee for Tourism of Turkmenistan, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — People in hydrocarbon-rich Turkmenistan have experienced another pinch from the country’s economic downturn as prices of gasoline have increased by 50 percent, from 1 to 1.5 manats per liter, starting from 1 February, the independent news website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reports.
