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TASHKENT (TCA) — A seminar “Community Water Supply Management System in Uzbekistan: Experience, Challenges and Further Developments” was held in Fergana city on July 25 and 26 as part of the “Rural Water Supply and Sanitation” project (RWSS) of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Jahon information agency reported.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — US Ambassador to Tajikistan Elisabeth Millard on July 26 participated in a forum on “Innovative Water Management for Sustainable Development”, organized by the USAID Local Governance Project and chaired by the Tajik First Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Resources Mr. Sulton Rahimzoda, and focused on improving the quality and management of drinking water supply services in Tajikistan, the US Embassy in Dushanbe said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on July 26 said that the claims that Russia is allegedly supplying weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan are groundless, Sputnik news agency reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Work is underway to gradually switch to English-language education in Kazakhstan’s secondary schools and universities, Minister of Education Yerlan Sagadiyev told a press conference on July 26, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan has announced it will outline a new alphabet by the end of this year as the country plans to switch from a Cyrillic-based script to Latin, RFE/RL reports.
WASHINGTON (TCA) — Fears of a ‘spillover’ of extremists from Northern Afghanistan into the states of Central Asia is nothing new. These claims have been echoed by Russia and the leaders of Central Asia for years; however there is little evidence to suggest genuine concern. For the Central Asian elite, this claim attracts foreign aid from wealthy states, while allowing regimes to squash both religious and secular dissent. The late ruler of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, used this very tactic to eliminate threats to his regime in the early 2000s by coordinating with the United States to extinguish Islamists. The Central Asian elite commonly use their security apparatus against political dissenters, and Karimov jailed hundreds of opponents under the disguise of counterterror.
