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LONDON (TCA) — When in late summer 2014 Kyrgyzstan’s then Interior Minister Abdulla Suranchiyev revealed names of local people’s representatives accusing them of “ties with organised crime,” a shockwave went through the country and beyond. Crime in Central Asia is a long ignored fact that is a deadly danger for the society. Of course, everyone knew about the organized crime groups and their ringleaders dubbed “avtoritety,” an equivalent for the western “godfathers,” but hardly anyone so far had realised that their power over the economy and indeed society itself had become so dangerously strong, exceeding that of the much-feared terrorism made in Afghanistan and the Near East. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The fourth meeting of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) Council held in Moscow last month decided to soften the Fund’s lending terms. The decision is extremely important for further development of Kyrgyzstan's economy during the next decade, RKDF Board Chairperson Nursulu Akhmetova said this week in Bishkek. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The government of Kyrgyzstan on March 1 announced a tender for the use and development of brown-coal deposits Kara-Keche and Min-Kush (Ak-Ulak area), the Kyrgyz Economy Ministry said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a framework co-financing agreement, setting forth the main areas and mechanisms of cooperation in the EDB and ADB member states. The document states that the banks will invest in projects in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. EDB will provide US $1 billion and the ADB US $2 billion until 2021, EDB’s press service said on March 2. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The United States, through the “USAID Defeat TB Project,” has partnered with the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan to provide tuberculosis treatment to patients on an outpatient basis in the southern Jalal-Abad oblast, the US Embassy in Kyrgyzstan said on March 1. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Back in 2014, then minister of economic affairs of Kazakhstan Kairat Kelimbetov stated at the Astana Economic Forum that the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) in the course of its formation “is learning a lot from the European Union – not just from the latter’s successes, but also from its mistakes”. Today, that statement is being put to the test – especially concerning the admission of Kyrgyzstan and Armenia by the bloc’s three founding members: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Continue reading
