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BISHKEK (TCA) — The Kyrgyz Government plans to offer its shares of a major player in the country’s telecommunication market, Alpha Telecom CJSC (MegaCom brand), for sale through auction. The state owns 100% of the company’s shares. The company covers 98 percent of the country with mobile communication and has more than three million subscribers. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — The year 2015 is bound to stay on people’s memories in Kazakhstan as the year everybody expected the curtain to fall – on people’s heads, that is. The current year, with the country’s national currency held by the fortunes of a ghost that keeps refusing to return into its bottle, unless cash flows are restored to durable levels. To allow this to happen, the government has resorted to what remarkably looks like Russia’s notorious stock-for-loans scheme worked out by the tandem Gaidar/Chubais in the mid-1990s. Will it work out this time? Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The government of Kazakhstan has approved a list of state companies to be offered for privatization, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported with reference to the country’s Ministry of National Economy. Continue reading