TCA
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.
TCA
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.
EurasiaNet
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:
BISHKEK (TCA) — As a new Great Game is just beginning in Eurasia with China being perhaps the key player on the vast region’s geopolitical map, we are presenting an abstract from a paper by Dr. James M. Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture. The full paper is available here.
TCA
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Central Asia is an important geopolitical area between Europe, Russia and China. It is in Central Asia that world powers have confronted each other for centuries; it is here that China needs to succeed with its new Silk Road Belt for direct access to the Western markets; and it is here that a large wealth of raw materials has its origin. Every week thousands of news appears all over the world in printed and online media and it is quite understandable that many of them may escape the attention of busy readers. At The Times of Central Asia, we strongly believe that more information can better contribute to peaceful development and better knowledge of the region, and for this reason we are presenting this Weekly Digest of Central Asia which compiles what other media have reported during the past week.
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — According to official data, 1,130 state-owned enterprises are registered in Kyrgyzstan and 900 of them are idle, 166 regularly receive subsidies from the state, and only 33 enterprises are operating efficiently.
