• West Asia

    Turkey accelerates the construction of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway

    Turkey will accelerate the construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway project, said Ahmet Arslan, Turkish Minister of Transport, Navigation, and Communications. “Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway project is very important for the region. The missing link of the Iron Silk Road will be completed at the end of this year. There is a…

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  • Central Asia

    Russia sacrificing Turkey due to a pilot’s mistake, Erdogan says

    Turkey is ready to restore relations with Russia, but does not know what type of the first step Russia expects from Turkey, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “I do not understand what kind of the first step is being expected from us. We are not a country that is…

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  • East Asia

    Eurasian Economic Union to cooperate with China

    China and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) will create trade cooperation for interests of the EEU members. EEU Supreme Council meeting was held in Kazakhstan on May 31. Member states discussed the new cooperation with regional countries. Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said “It would be great to…

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  • Central Asia

    Do you know anything about Kyrgyzstan?

    I participated in an international forum last month. I met many people and made a lot of friends. But many of them have not heard about my country. So I was hurt… No, I’m just kidding here. Just it was not pleasant. Even someone asked me, whether Kyrgyzstan is a…

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  • Central Asia

    A city bridge of St. Petersburg named after Chechen leader Kadyrov

    St. Petersburg toponymic commission agreed on the proposal to name an unnamed city bridge after Chechnya’s first president Akhmad Kadyrov, The Moscow Times reports. Nine members of the commission supported the new title for the nameless bridge across the Duderhof channel. Six members voted against the motion, which was decided…

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  • Central Asia

    Russia is arming PKK terrorists, Erdogan says

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Russia of providing anti-aircraft weaponry and rockets to militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), government officials said on Monday, Reuters reports. He spoke to journalists after a visit to the Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir, Erdogan accused Russia of arming the PKK…

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  • Central Asia

    GM Uzbekistan starts Chevrolet Aveo production

    GM Uzbekistan, the former UzDaewooAuto, started the serial production of third-generation Nexia cars, Uzavtoprom (Uzbek Association of Automotive Industry Enterprises) said, Trend reports. The new model is produced on the basis of T-250 (Chevrolet Aveo) platform. The cars will be sold under the Ravon Nexia R3 brand for export and…

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  • Central Asia

    Turkey and Russia can work together, Turkish FM says

    Mevlut Cavusoglu, Foreign Minister of Turkey proposed to establish a joint working group with Russia to restore relations on May 30. He told journalists, “Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wants to restore ties and expects us to take steps. We also seek normalization. We suggest creating a joint working…

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  • East Asia

    Top 7 saving countries in Asia

    Seven Asian states are the best saving countries in the world with gross national saving, a measure that accounts for both private and public savings according to the data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reports Business Asia One. According to the data, China saves the most money in absolute…

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  • Central Asia

    South Ossetia delays referendum on joining Russia

    South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia, announced that the referendum on joining Russia will be conducted in 2017, instead of, in August this year. According to the announcement, the referendum is planned to be held after the presidential elections in South Ossetia. Recently Leonid Tibilov, the head of the…

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