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Kyrgyzstan vows to punish those responsible for terror attack on Chinese embassy

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Erlan Abdyldaev, on August 30 discussed in a phone conversation the terrorist attack against the Chinese Embassy to Kyrgyzstan and pledged closer cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Abdyldaev said the Kyrgyz side condemned the suicide attack “in the strongest terms,”…
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Central Asia

Finding home in the ger district

Alexander McNab – The UB Post Ulaanbaatar is a city known as a cemetery of nomadism, a place where wandering people have gone to settle down inside four cement walls in towering apartment blocks, but for Froit van der Harst, the entrance into U.B. was only a continuation of over…
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East Asia

Large, moody and dangerous

Andrei Lankov – The Korea Times It is clear, that since mid-July, the relations between South Korea and China, which in recent years had been quite friendly, have begun to deteriorate quickly. The reason for this crisis is widely known: in July, despite stern warnings from Beijing, the South Korean…
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South East Asia

Mongolia and India consider launching direct flights

Indian Ambassador to Mongolia Suresh Babu asked Prime Minister J.Erdenebat to study possibilities for launching an Ulaanbaatar-Delhi direct flight to improve business relations and cooperation between the two countries, during a meeting this week, The UB Post reports. During the meeting, the Prime Minister expressed hope that friendly and close…
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Central Asia

Uzbek President Islam Karimov hospitalized

President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov hospitalised, the Russian media reports. According to news agencies, Kerimov is currently hospitalised. The President undergoes a medical examination that, together with the treatment “will take time”. Karimov is 78-years-old and he rules Uzbekistan since 1989. He is the region’s oldest leader. No Obvious Successor…
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Central Asia

Putin to open Russian school in Kyrgyzstan

Russian school will be opened in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, in September, the head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. “Russian Peace Foundation almost completed construction of Russian school in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, we will open it during the visit…
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Central Asia

Russian soldier sentenced to life for Armenian killings

An Armenian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of murder charges and sentenced him to life in prison for the 2015 massacre of seven members of an Armenian family, RFERL reports. The court in Armenia’s northwestern city of Gyumri issued the verdict and sentence aga inst Russian Army Private…
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Central Asia

Iran to purchase 60 Russian light helicopters

The Russian Helicopters holding is in talks with Iran on the deliveries of Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters for Iran`s health ministry, the company’s press service said on August 23. “Russian Helicopters issue is in talks to supply Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters in the interest of the Ministry of…
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Central Asia

The language of Azerbaijan: Turkish or Azerbaijani?

Written by: Altay Göyüşov – This article was originally published by the BBC Azerbaijani Service. The AsiaN cites from Meydan.tv. *** The language issue in Azerbaijan has long been more of a political question than a scientific one. In June of 1918, the government of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic enacted a law…
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East Asia

North Korea closes down embassy in Uzbekistan

North Korea has closed down its embassy in Uzbekistan as part of a restructuring of its missions in the Commonwealth of Independent States, a diplomatic source in Uzbekistan said on August 20, Trend News reports. The source said that the North Korean embassy informed foreign embassies in Tashkent, the Uzbek…
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