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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Former Tajikistan Special Forces colonel Gulmurod Khalimov has become the top Daesh (ISIS) battlefield commander in Iraq after defecting last year and swearing jihad against the West, Sputnik news agency reports.
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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.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — After entering the Eurasian Economic Union in August 2015, Kyrgyzstan has joined to the single labor market of Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, and Russia. Kyrgyzstan’s citizens working in Russia no longer need to buy labor patents and take exams on the Russian language and Russia’s history and law. Kyrgyzstan’s university diplomas are recognized in the EEU. After receiving such privileges, more Kyrgyz citizens have left for Russia, as the unemployment at home has forced them to move abroad in search of a better life.
LONDON (TCA) — Will the death of Uzbekistan’s longstanding ruler cause an “Uzbek Spring” with room for more public input and a less oppressive state apparatus, without hollowing out the state itself? As things look, the disappearance of one of the last remaining “Soviet heirs” and his replacement is an affair to be settled within a very narrow circle of men-behind-the-throne. That does not mean, however, that things on a slightly longer term could not change for the better.
BISHKEK (TCA) — After an unidentified suicide car bomber attacked the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek on August 30, we are republishing this article by Joshua Kucera originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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BISHKEK (TCA) — According to the Centre for Integration Studies of Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria), it is essential to step up efforts to normalise and develop relations between the European Union (EU) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with the aim to reach a comprehensive integration agreement in the long run. This conclusion was presented in their report “European Union and Eurasian Economic Union: Long-Term Dialogue and Perspectives of Agreement” based on the results of the joint project “Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Integration within a wider European and Eurasian Space”, the EDB press office reported.
