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TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s President-elect Shavkat Mirziyoyev has proposed direct elections of regional governors and city mayors in the country, to make officials more accountable to citizens.
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BAKU (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on December 7 said it will provide $1 billion in private and public sector assistance to expand Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II, one of the world’s largest gas fields. The move would become the first step in creating an alternative for gas deliveries to Europe from the Caspian region.
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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The 21st International Forum “Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan 2016” is taking place in Ashgabat from December 7-9.
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ATYRAU, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Official presentation of Kazakhstan’s huge offshore Kashagan oil field took place on December 7 in Atyrau with the participation of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh Energy Ministry said.
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ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan authorities say they detained several people suspected of illegal oil sales during a large-scale security operation in the northwestern city of Aktobe on December 7, RFE/RL reported.
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ASTANA (TCA) — A 1,000th container train proceeded on December 1 through Altynkol station and the dry port of Khorgos–Eastern Gate SEZ on the Kazakh-Chinese border, on route from China to Europe, the press office of Kazakh national railways company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) said.
