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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoev has signed a decree ordering what state media outlets called the first mass pardoning of convicts in the country’s history, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reported.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The recent bottleneck at the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — both members of the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union — showed that not everything is smooth within the trade bloc, which lacks efficient supranational mechanisms to resolve such problems. We are republishing this article by Nurjamal Djanibekova on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — As Turkmenistan’s economy is experiencing a downturn due to decreased revenues from natural-gas exports, the country’s public sector staff is to be reduced by 30 percent and some kindergartens closed down starting from the new year, the independent foreign-based website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — India is preparing to send the first consignment of goods to Russia through a new intercontinental multi-modal transport corridor that connects its port city of Mumbai to Russia’s St Petersburg, Iran’s PressTV reported citing India’s media.
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KABUL (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank on December 6 said its Board of Directors has approved $330 million in grant financing to support the completion of Afghanistan’s national Ring Road, a vital national strategic corridor and a critical part of the country’s regional integration agenda.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has angrily called on local companies and business leaders to bring billions of dollars kept in bank accounts abroad back to Kazakhstan, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
