TASHKENT (TCA) — As on September 8 Uzbekistan’s parliament appointed Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as the country’s interim president and an early presidential election has been scheduled for December 4, we are republishing this article by Alexander Kim, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Today, September 10, the Karakol historical regional study museum in Kyrgyzstan is officially opening a permanent exhibition of the unique journey across Central Asia accomplished by Ella Maillart, world-renowned Swiss traveler and journalist, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A ceremony of laying a capsule for the construction of a Turkmen five-star hotel was planned for September 3 in Kara-Oi village of the Issyk-Kul region of Kyrgyzstan. Presidents Almazbek Atambayev of Kyrgyzstan and Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov of Turkmenistan were supposed to attend the ceremony but it was cancelled as Berdymukhammedov was at the funeral of late Uzbek President Islam Karimov in Samarkand and did not arrive in Kyrgyzstan. The Turkmen leader planned to attend the opening ceremony of the World Nomad Games which took place at Issyk-Kul between September 3 and 8.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Today, September 9, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has appointed Bakytzhan Sagintayev the prime minister of Kazakhstan, the presidential press service said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Foreigners are actively investing in the Kazakh economy with a 25-percent on-year growth in January-July of this year. The share of foreign investment in the total investments in Kazakhstan remains stable and significant, staying within the range of 20-50 percent of the total over the past 2.5 years, Ranking.kz reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — In the upcoming marketing year (July 2016-June 2017), Kazakhstan plans to export 8.5 million tons of grain, Sabit Kashkimbayev, Deputy Chairman of National Company Food Corporation JSC said on September 8 at a briefing on the current state of the harvest campaign in the country, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
