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ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan are using “increasingly elaborate and aggressive methods to stamp out dissenting voices on the Internet and social media,” Amnesty International says.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Bakyt Torobayev, the leader of Onuguu-Progress party, will run for the post of Kyrgyzstan’s president in the next election scheduled for this autumn, Kyrgyz media report.
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ASTANA (TCA) — An agreement on the export of Kazakhstan honey to China will be signed in May, and work is going on to start Kazakhstan’s meat export to China, First Deputy Agriculture Minister Kairat Aituganov said on February 9, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan plans to increase the export of food products by 40 percent by 2021 through diversification of agricultural production. In 2017, the agro food export is expected to grow 10 percent, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — During her working visit to Kazakhstan on February 9, Cihan Sultanoglu, UN Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Assistant Administrator, Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS and UN Commissioner-General in EXPO-2017, signed an agreement of participation of the UN in EXPO-2017 in Astana with Akhmetzhan Yessimov, chairman of Astana EXPO-2017 National Company JSC Board.
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KABUL (TCA) — General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, told the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on February 9 that Russia had significantly increased covert and overt support for the Taliban, with a goal of “undermining the United States and NATO,” RFE/RL reports.
