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Central Asia
Russian Parents Name Baby ‘Stalin’
A couple in Russia’s southern city of Voronezh has named their newborn child Stalin, city authorities have confirmed, The Moscow Times reports. The newborn is not the only child in Russia to sport an unusual name. In August, the BBC reported that a Tajik family living in Russia had renamed…
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Central Asia
Mirziyoyev named acting Uzbek president
Uzbek Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been appointed the acting president by a decision of a joint meeting of the Senate and the Legislative Chamber of Uzbekistan’s Parliament Sept. 8. Mirziyoyev was born July 24, 1957. In 1981, Mirziyoyev graduated from the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration. He served…
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West Asia
At least 38% of citizens not to trust any Azerbaijani bank
Business Insight Company has conducted the survey that has affected the attitude of Baku citizens to the banks. According to the survey, in August 37.6% of citizens did not trust any banks, and 8.8% of citizens neither agree nor disagree. For comparison, in January the indexes amounted to 33.1% and…
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Central Asia
Making Mongolia HOME
ELISE HONNINGDALSNES – The UB Post Five years ago, Jeanett Melboe decided to leave her home country and go back to the last place where she felt happy. Today she lives with her husband and two kids in Terelj National Park outside of Ulaanbaatar and runs a popular ger-camp. A few days before…
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East Asia
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East Asia
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East Asia
ASEAN wise to leave sea arbitration alone
The ASEAN summit released a joint statement on Wednesday, article 121-128 of which mentioned the South China Sea issue. Like the joint communiqué released by the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in July, the latest statement did not mention the South China Sea arbitration. Rather, it stressed the importance and urgency…
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Central Asia
Russia and Iran to begin construction work on Bushehr-2 NPP
Moscow and Tehran are set to launch the construction of the second stage of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on September 10, the ASE company said in a statement on September 6, TASS reports. ASE is an engineering company within Russian state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom. According to the statement,…
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Central Asia
Invest Mongolia Calls for Regaining Investor Trust
During this year’s Invest Mongolia, which addressed the interests of investors in the state policies of the new Cabinet, foreign investors advised the Mongolian government to take measures to regain their trust in order to improve foreign investment in the country. From September 5 to 6, the forum’s attendees discussed…
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West Asia
Skype – parents of the South Caucasus: labor migrants and their families back home
Summer time. Time for vacation, for breaks, for trips and meetings and get-togethers. A time for family. In parks and cafés, you can see parents strolling about with their children. From the outside, they might appear to be models of familial felicity — however, for many of them, this might…
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