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ASTANA (TCA) — In the first half of 2017, transit traffic through Kazakhstan and Latvia increased by 15 percent, the head of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) Kanat Alpysbaev said at the international conference “Prospects of global transport communication. Eurasian potential”, held in Astana on July 10, KTZ’s press office reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — There are plans to start assembling Belarusian agricultural machinery in Tajikistan this autumn, Belarus’ BelTA news agency reported citing Ambassador of Belarus to Tajikistan Oleg Ivanov.
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ASTANA (TCA) — On July 10-12, the Minister of Agriculture of China Han Changfu is paying a visit to Kazakhstan. The visit included a Kazakhstan-China Agrarian Investment Forum in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has urged people in the predominantly Muslim country not to wear beards or hijabs, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on July 11 signed a law that bars people without previous government experience from running for the country’s president.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Moscow is reportedly negotiating sending troops from its CSTO allies — Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — to monitor the military situation in Syria. The move, if it happens, certainly meets Russia’s political goals but it would bring nothing but headaches to the Central Asian countries, which are still reluctant to sign up to Moscow’s initiative. We are republishing this article by Uran Botobekov on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
