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ASTANA (TCA) — The Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan says it has held talks with Chinese officials regarding “frequent complaints by ethnic Kazakhs about problems they face in the People’s Republic of China,” RFE/RL reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The newly inaugurated President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbai Jeenbekov will make his first foreign visit to Russia today, November 29, at the invitation of the Russian side. He will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Aizada Subakojoeva, head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Kyrgyz Presidential Administration, told a briefing on November 28.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Central Asia lies at the crossroads of rail routes connecting China and Europe, and the region is now in the spotlight of rivalry between Moscow and Beijing for the control of transcontinental rail shipments. We are republishing this article by Nurlan Aliyev on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan has to solve the issue of ensuring security in cooperation with neighboring countries and countries of the region which are facing the same challenges and threats, Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai said in an exclusive interview with Russia’s Sputnik news agency.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The time of delivery of Kazakhstan’s grain to China by rail has been reduced fourfold with the launch of a new train service from Atbasar railway station, the press-office of Kazakhstan’s national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The new President of Kyrgyzstan, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, has awarded his predecessor Almazbek Atambayev with the title of a National Hero.
