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Central Asia
Turkey loses $209 mln 2016 due to food embargo
Turkey lost $209 mln in the Q1 of 2016 due to the Russian food embargo on imports of certain food items imports to the country, Russia’s Economic Development Ministry said in its report for January – June 2016, TASS reports. “Import of goods prohibited from January 1, 2016, to enter…
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Central Asia
Russia to supply BTR-80 armored personnel carriers for UN peacekeepers
Russia’s Military Industrial Company (MIC) will supply overseas a batch of the BTR-80 armored personnel carriers for the UN peacekeepers, the company spokesman Sergei Suvorov told TASS on July 28. “The UN peacekeepers have ordered a batch of the BTR-80 APCs”, Suvorov said, TASS reports. The official did not specify…
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Central Asia
87% of Turkey’s Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway section ready
87% of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway has been constructed in Turkey, the Turkish minister of transport, shipping and communications, Ahmet Arslan said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. “The BTK is being constructed on the schedule,” the minister said, adding that two bridges are being built over the Kars river. The minister stressed…
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Central Asia
40% of Russians Struggle to Have Food and Clothes
More than 40 percent of Russian families struggle to find the money to buy food or clothes, a study by Moscow’s Higher School of Economics (HSE) revealed on July 27. The Moscow Times reported that the forty-one percent of Russians told researchers that they lacked money for food and clothes,…
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Central Asia
Russian anti-aircraft gunners hold firing drills in Russia, Tajikistan
More than 3,000 anti-aircraft gunners of Russia’s Central Military District are involved in a field exercise of the air defense troops that takes place simultaneously at ranges in the Astrakhan, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions of Russia, as well as in Tajikistan, the district’s press service reported on July 27, TASS…
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East Asia
Korea to start new healthcare project in Uzbekistan
Director of KOICA Uzbekistan Office Im Jeong Hee and the Deputy Minister of Health of Uzbekistan Laziz Tuychiev have signed a protocol on the implementation of a new project “Creation of a center of excellence of medical personnel of the Children’s Diversified Medical Center and the 4th-level highly specialized multidisciplinary…
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Central Asia
Russian troops carry out electronic launches of Iskander-M missiles
Missile troops of the Eastern Military District from the Primorsky Territory, Russia’s Far East, have carried out the first electronic launches from the Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile systems in a tactical exercise at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region, southern Russia, the Eastern Military District spokesman Colonel Alexander…
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Central Asia
Russia restarts talks on economic cooperation program with Turkey
Russia will restart talks on the draft trade and economic cooperation program with Turkey for 2016-2019, the Russian Government said in the decree on trade and economic relations with Turkey, posted on the Cabinet’s website on July 22, TASS reports. “In accordance with introduced amendments the mixed intergovernmental commission on…
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East Asia
Kazakh atomic company and China strengthen nuclear cooperation
China last week, the CEO of Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom, Askar Zhumagaliyev, met with the CEO of CITIC GROUP Corporation Chang Zhenming. The heads of the companies discussed further implementation of joint Kazakhstan–China projects as well as the attraction of investments to the nuclear sector of Kazakhstan, Kazatomprom said,…
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Central Asia
Turkmenistan Closes Border with Kazakhstan
Turkmen officials have closed the border with Kazakhstan for five days in line with increased security measures, RFERL reports. “Turkmenistan has bolstered border security, which is why access of foreign citizens arriving in the republic…has been suspended for five days,” said a statement by officials from Kazakhstan’s western Mangistau region.…
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