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BISHKEK (TCA) — Jails are currently overcrowded and penal institutions are seeking solutions to improve jails’ situations, while being able to monitor efficiently and in a secure manner prisoners who could be released. Moreover, prisons are very expensive to operate. Prisons are overcrowded and have serious shortages of food and medical support.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on April 18 said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation to be held in Beijing on May 14-15.
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ASTANA (TCA) — A trade mission of Kazakhstan’s companies has visited Afghanistan, resulting in reaching agreements on the export of Kazakh food products and construction materials worth over $11 million to Afghanistan’s market, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said Iran is ready to help Kyrgyzstan with the construction of hydropower plants in the Central Asian country, Iran’s PressTV news agency reports.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Two immigrants from Central Asia, who were related to recruiters of international terrorists and who expressed readiness to commit terrorist acts in Russia, have been killed in Russia’s Vladimir region, east of Moscow, during a detention attempt, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on April 19, Sputnik news agency reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — As domestic and external demand continues to recover, growth in Kyrgyzstan for 2017 is expected to reach 3.5 percent and continue to expand into the medium term, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Edward Gemayel said in a statement after it visited Bishkek from April 5-18.
