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TASHKENT (TCA) — The raft of reforms under way in Uzbekistan must invest in the promotion and protection of human rights, including freedom of religion or belief, a UN expert has concluded on October 12 at the end of an official visit to the country.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Long lines of cars, trucks, and frustrated travelers on foot stretched back from Kyrgyzstan’s border with Kazakhstan, which officials in Bishkek suspect has restricted movement across the border amid a politically charged dispute ahead of Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election on October 15, RFE/RL reports.
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KABUL (TCA) — Civilian casualties in Afghanistan declined 6 percent during the first nine months of 2017, the United Nations says, as the Kabul government continues to battle militants after nearly 16 years of war, RFE/RL reports.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on October 11 ordered the end of deeply discounted water, gas, and electricity for Turkmen citizens in a decree prompted by falling energy prices and sales that have depleted government revenues, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service reports.
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ALMATY (TCA) — American Councils for International Education (ACCELS) with support of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Kazakhstan is organizing an educational fair of U.S. higher institutions that will be held in Almaty on October 14. ACCELS is a non-profit organization that implements international exchange programs, and has been an official source of U.S. higher education in Kazakhstan since 1992, the U.S. Consulate General in Almaty said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — The downward trend governing the changes of foreign direct investment (FDI) stock of CIS countries — including five post-Soviet republics of Central Asia — during the period from 2013 to 2015 has been replaced with significant growth. According to the latest data, in 2016 mutual CIS and Georgia FDI stock increased by 7.9% to $45.1 billion after a three-year decline, according to the report entitled Monitoring of Mutual Investments in CIS Countries – 2017, prepared by the Centre for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development Bank.
