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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Anticorruption Bureau on February 2 said that fugitive Kazakh tycoon Mukhtar Ablyazov has been charged with the creation of an international criminal community and summoned to the bureau’s headquarters in Astana by February 10, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reported.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s accession of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) has been advantageous for the country, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sooronbai Jeenbekov said on February 2 in Parliament, presenting a report on the results of the country’s membership of the EEU.
LONDON (TCA) — Are the governments of Central Asia’s post-Soviet republics taking effective action to root out the phantom of terrorism lurking in all corners of the region? The awkward question was carefully avoided during the latest peace talks on Syria in Astana. Fact remains, however, that thousands of nationals of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and (most of all) Uzbekistan are “fighting” in Syria and northern Iraq. In the meantime a rather large number of them are also spreading over the world to replace terrorists originating from the Near-East to spread new waves of havoc, while others “bring terror home” by returning to their countries of origin ready to carry out attacks on their own communities. However, so far nobody has properly mapped the overall situation.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — This year Tajikistan plans to produce around 179 thousand tons of aluminum compared to 129.3 thousand tons last year, Avesta news agency reported with reference to Tajik Minister of Economic Development and Trade Negmatullo Hikmatullozoda.
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BISHKEK (TCA) — A new textile factory of Tekstil Trans Ltd opened on February 1 in Kyrgyzstan’s northern Chui province.
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TASHKENT (TCA) — The European Union is Uzbekistan’s fourth largest trade partner after China, Russia and Kazakhstan, with 12 percent of the country’s total trade accounting for EU member states, Ambassador Eduards Stiprais, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Uzbekistan, said last week at a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Tashkent.
