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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
Maria Levina
BISHKEK (TCA) — The US dollar has most significantly depreciated against the national currency in Kyrgyzstan among the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union since the beginning of 2016, the Statistics Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission said.
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.
Maria Levina
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.
