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East Asia
Jumping the ship
Andrei Lankov – The Korea Times The recent few months have been marked by a significant increase in the number of the elite defection from North Korea ― a defection of the North Korean minister from London is yet another such incident, but it is believed that up to seven…
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Central Asia
A Terrorist Act to Undermine the Kyrgyz-Chinese Relations
An explosion which occurred in the late August near the Chinese Embassy in Bishkek is officially recognized as a terrorist act. The explosion on the southern outskirts of Bishkek thundered at 09:33 (AM) by local time. It was heard from almost all over the city. Upon arrival of the first…
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West Asia
A Big Threat at the Heart of Caucasus
Bearing in mind the risks and threat to the region that come from Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant(NPP) located in Armenia and concerns of Azerbaijan in this regard, it constantly raises the issue of decommissioning of this nuclear facility, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan announces. Mr. Ilham Aliyev, the President…
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Central Asia
2,000 troops taking part in Peace Mission-2016 drills in Kyrgyzstan
About 2,000 troops are taking part in the Peace Mission-2016 joint anti-terror drills of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member-countries, which got underway in Kyrgyzstan on September 15, Ruslan Mukambetov, chief of the command and staff exercises, has said, TASS reports. “The need to conduct such exercises is dictated by…
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Central Asia
Staff changes in Uzbek government
Uzbekistan announced staff changes in the government Sept. 14. The country’s acting president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree appointing Abdulla Oripov deputy prime minister for youth policy, culture, information systems and telecommunications, read a message on the government website, Trend reports. Oripov served as Uzbekistan’s deputy prime minister from May…
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West Asia
Ex-Gazprom Executive Becomes New Armenian Prime Minister
Karen Karapetian, a top executive at the Russian gas giant Gazprom, has become Armenia’s new prime minister, RFERL reports. Armenia’s presidential press service said on September 13 that President Serzh Sarkisian had signed a decree appointing Karapetian. Karapetian, 53, served as the mayor of Yerevan from 2010-11. After leaving the post…
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West Asia
A Female Mayor in the Heart of Middle East
Asian countries provide female mayors and governors like in Europe. According to researches, currently, fewer than 5% of the world’s mayors are women and women make up an average of just 20% local councilors worldwide. Mrs. Vera Baboun is one of these female mayors of the Asian continent as the…
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Central Asia
A Sensitive Power Transition in Uzbekistan
Orhan GAFARLI Academic on International Relations at Ankara University of Turkey Some news about the hospitalization of Islam Karimov, the former President of Uzbekistan had been spread out in late August. There was no any clear information about his illness. His daughter Lola Karimova declared on the social networks that…
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West Asia
New resignations in Georgian government
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has issued a decree about the resignation of several officials ahead of next month’s Parliamentary Elections, as their continuation in official duties was a conflict of interest following their naming on the ruling party’s election list, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. According to today’s decree those required…
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East Asia
UNFPA approves Mongolia Country Program
Mongolia’s Country Program document to be implemented between 2017 and 2021 was approved on September 6, at the second regular session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), The UB Post reports. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations,…
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