Lidia Savina
BISHKEK (TCA) — With the launch of the winter heating season, hundreds of coal-fired small boilers began to supply heat to the homes of Kyrgyzstan’s population. Some boilers this year have been transferred to natural gas, because the gas supply is more stable, effective and environmentally friendly. The others are still burning coal.
Sergey Kwan
TASHKENT (TCA) — Interim President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoev on October 26 signed a Decree “On additional measures for the intensification and expansion of activities of free economic zones”, the country’s official Jahon information agency reported.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — According to the rating of the Intelligent Community Forum (USA), Kazakhstan’s capital Astana has joined the world’s top 21 intelligent communities in 2016, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reports.
Sergey Kwan
ASTANA (TCA) — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Erlan Idrissov on October 28 participated in a ceremonial opening of a new office of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Secretariat in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
Sergey Kwan
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon on October 29 attended the ceremony to officially start the construction of the Rogun Dam, a massive project that, if completed, would be the world’s tallest and should give Tajikistan a stable energy supply, RFE/RL’s Tajik Service reported.
LONDON (TCA) — Politicians letting their personal interests prevail over ideological and public issues is a global phenomenon. Kyrgyzstan’s democratic parliament excels in it, and threatens what the system is meant for. A party with a perhaps controversial but daring and radical formula to get the country out of its economic deadlock would beyond doubt harvest success, on condition that once in power it decidedly proceeds. But such a party lacks ground in Kyrgyzstan’s current political life.
