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ASTANA (TCA) — As Kazakhstan’s longtime President Nursultan Nazarbayev has announced a constitutional reform aimed at redistribution of state power in the country, we are republishing this article originally published by EurasiaNet.org:
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ALMATY (TCA) — At a ceremony on January 27 in Almaty, the U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan handed over a Huey II Helicopter worth $7 million to the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan. This is the fourth Huey helicopter provided to Kazakhstan through the U.S. Foreign Military Sales Program. U.S. Ambassador George Krol, U.S. Consul General Mark Moody, U.S. Defense Attaché Colonel Ron Hogan, and leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan participated in the ceremony, the U.S. Consulate General in Almaty said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan and the World Bank on January 26 launched a new project aimed at designing and developing Kazakhstan’s greenhouse gases (GHG) electronic reporting platform and its supporting institutional and legal frameworks, the World Bank said.
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ALMATY (TCA) — Kaynar-AKB, the only manufacturer of automobile batteries in Kazakhstan, is expanding its sales markets abroad. The company has begun exporting its products to the African continent and has delivered the first batch of its BARS Asia batteries to Benin, the Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan reported on January 26.
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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Preparatory work has begun for a proposed project to improve food security in Tajikistan by boosting dairy production while making the industry more resilient to climate change, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) country office in Tajikistan said.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan has expressed concern after a Tajik official reportedly spoke of plans to potentially open a railway line to Russia that would bypass Turkmen territory, RFE/RL reports.
