BISHKEK (TCA) — Following relative economic stabilization in 2016, Eurasian Development Bank’s member countries — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan — are entering the phase where inflation will go down significantly and key rates will be reduced gradually. This is expected to create more favorable conditions for the recovery of positive economic dynamics in the region, according to the findings of The Macroeconomic Review prepared by the Chief Economist Group at EDB.

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KABUL (TCA) — Czech business people are interested in investing in more than 100 projects in Afghanistan and have submitted their investment plans to the Afghan government, Afghanistan’s TOLOnews agency reported.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is pushing ahead with his plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2025, Turkmen state media reported.

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ASTANA (TCA) — An agreement on the opening of Representative Office of Kazakhstan in the Silicon Valley was signed during the working trip of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev to the United States from April 11 to 14, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — Russia’s gas giant Gazprom has been consistently reducing natural-gas imports from Uzbekistan but still continues investing in Uzbek gas projects. We are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org:

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