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ASTANA (TCA) — At least 52 people have been killed in a fire that broke out on a bus in Kazakhstan’s northwestern Aqtobe region, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports.
TASHKENT (TCA) — The year 2017 was marked in Uzbekistan by the President’s efforts to reform the tightly-controlled economy and financial sector, liberalize the internal political sphere, and improve the country’s tense relations with neighboring Central Asian states. Although much has been done on the domestic and foreign fronts, it is yet to be done much more to bring in the real changes to Uzbekistan, and to make such changes irreversible. We are republishing this article by Umida Hashimova on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute (CACI) on January 22 will organize a Forum event in Washington, DC on the subject “Uzbekistan’s New Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity under New Leadership”.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — Last year, Uzbekistan exported products worth almost US $14 billion, Novosti Uzbekistana news portal reports citing official statistics.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) and GE Transportation on January 17 signed the Agreements on the purchase of diesel locomotives and the service of passenger locomotives. The documents were signed during the visit of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the United States.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Government of Tajikistan and the World Bank on January 16 signed a US$16.5 million grant agreement for the Zarafshon Irrigation Rehabilitation and Management Improvement Project aimed at rehabilitating and improving irrigation management in Tajikistan. The project, financed by a Trust Fund of the European Union (EU), will allow farmers in the Zarafshon river basin of northern Tajikistan to increase their crops and improve their livelihoods, the World Bank said.
