Strategic exercise Kavkaz-2016 begins in Russia’s Southern Military District
A strategic command staff exercise codenamed Kavkaz-2016 with 12,500 troops taking part has begun in the Southern Military District, the Russian Defense Ministry has said, TASS reports. “The Kavkaz-2016 exercise is the final phase of a package of command staff and special practices and drills for military command bodies and snap checks of troops’ combat readiness […]
Russia has no plans to sell Gazprom
Russia is not planning on selling energy giant Gazprom, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, Sputnik reports. “We have no plans to sell it yet, and this is because of the peculiarities of the Russian economy, the social sphere and the Russian energy industry,” Putin told Bloomberg, explaining why he was unconcerned by the company’s share […]
French school adds a ger classroom to their campus
A village in northern France is using a Mongolian ger to accommodate extracurricular activities for its students, The UB Post reports. The Three Keys School in Boëseghem, French Flanders, has seen its student body grow from 90 to 150 in ten years and needed a cost-effective solution when they discovered the school needed a new […]
Kazakh president urges G20 to unite to sustain global economy
Xie Yahong – People’s Daily Given the current global geopolitical arena as well as the uncertainties faced by global financial system, the G20 Summit must demonstrate the unity needed to secure the stability of world economy, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said ahead of his attendance at the G20 Summit to be kicked off on Saturday. Nazarbayev […]
Chinese Outcome List of the Meeting Between The Chinese and U.S. Presidents in Hangzhou
People’s Daily – On September 3, 2016, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China held meetings with President Barack Obama of the United States of America during the G20 Hangzhou Summit. The two sides had in-depth, candid and constructive talks on China-U.S. relations and major regional and global issues of common interest, and […]
Uzbeks Buried Strongman Karimov
Uzbekistan has buried long-ruling President Islam Karimov, a day after the government announced the death of the authoritarian leader following a stroke at the age of 78, RFERL reported. Karimov was laid to rest on September 3 after an Islamic funeral ceremony — attended by thousands of people, including foreign heads of states — on […]
G20 Hangzhou summit is continuative and constructive
Bao Jie and Li Feng – People’s Daily “China this year has been very constructive and diligent about ensuring the continuity of the work that has been done in the last few years in Turkey, Australia and Russia. But also I think China has done an excellent job of introducing some new themes when Chinese […]
Russia refuses entry to Armenian political analyst
Russian border guards have refused entry to a noted Armenian political analyst, RFERL/RL reports. Stepan Grigorian, director of the Yerevan-based Analytical Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC), said on September 1 that he was told by Russian border guards that he has been barred from entering Russia until 2030. Grigorian said he discovered the […]
Japan-Turkey consortium building big plant in Turkmenistan
Consortium of Japan’s Kawasaki and Turkey’s Ronesans is constructing a big gas processing plant in Turkmenistan’s Ovadan to produce high-quality gasoline from natural gas, said the Turkmen oil and gas complex in a message Aug. 31, Trend reports. The project’s customer is the country’s Turkmengas State Concern. At the current phase, pipes are being laid […]
Tourism in Mongolia: Quality or quantity?
Gantemur Damba is president of the Mongolian Tourism Association and heads a large group of influential organizations important to the development of this country. He has worked as a consultant and project director for major international organizations. Until recently, he was General Director of the Culture and Art Policy Coordination Department of the Ministry of […]
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