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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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Central Asia
Strategic exercise Kavkaz-2016 begins in Russia’s Southern Military District
A strategic command staff exercise codenamed Kavkaz-2016 with 12,500 troops taking part has begun in the Southern Military District, the Russian Defense Ministry has said, TASS reports. “The Kavkaz-2016 exercise is the final phase of a package of command staff and special practices and drills for military command bodies and snap…
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South Asia
Iran and Afghanistan stress development of Chabahar Port
Iranian top Presidential aide, Akbar Torkan and Afghan Minister of Trade and Industry Homayoun Rasa in a meeting on September 5 stressed development of Chabahar Port, IRNA reports. During the meeting, Torkan who is also secretary of the Supreme Council of Iran’s Free Trade, Industrial and Special Economic Zones said…
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West Asia
Iran among 15 countries with rich mineral resources
Deputy minister of Industry, Mine and Trade said Iran is among the 15 top countries in terms of enjoying mineral resources, IRNA reports. Speaking in a local gathering, Mohammad-Taqi Korei said Iran enjoys more that one percent of global mineral resources while accessing to one percent of the world’s land…
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East Asia
Chinese Outcome List of the Meeting Between The Chinese and U.S. Presidents in Hangzhou
People’s Daily – On September 3, 2016, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China held meetings with President Barack Obama of the United States of America during the G20 Hangzhou Summit. The two sides had in-depth, candid and constructive talks on China-U.S. relations and major regional and global…
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East Asia
G20 Hangzhou summit is continuative and constructive
Bao Jie and Li Feng – People’s Daily “China this year has been very constructive and diligent about ensuring the continuity of the work that has been done in the last few years in Turkey, Australia and Russia. But also I think China has done an excellent job of introducing…
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Central Asia
Russia refuses entry to Armenian political analyst
Russian border guards have refused entry to a noted Armenian political analyst, RFERL/RL reports. Stepan Grigorian, director of the Yerevan-based Analytical Center on Globalization and Regional Cooperation (ACGRC), said on September 1 that he was told by Russian border guards that he has been barred from entering Russia until 2030.…
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West Asia
World Chess Olympiad started in Baku
The 42nd World Chess Competition started in Baku on September 1, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The opening ceremony will last about an hour at the National gymnastics arena and the competitions will be held at the Sports and Concert Complex Baku Crystal Hall that was built four years ago. The opening…
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West Asia
Georgia enlisted as 3rd safest country in the world
Georgia has been named in the top three of the list of the world’s safest countries. Numbeo.com has surveyed 118 countries. As a result, the first three are the following countries: South Korea, Singapore and Georgia. The most unsafe countries were Venezuela, Papua New Guinea and Honduras. As Georgia’s neighbors,…
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East Asia
Japan-Turkey consortium building big plant in Turkmenistan
Consortium of Japan’s Kawasaki and Turkey’s Ronesans is constructing a big gas processing plant in Turkmenistan’s Ovadan to produce high-quality gasoline from natural gas, said the Turkmen oil and gas complex in a message Aug. 31, Trend reports. The project’s customer is the country’s Turkmengas State Concern. At the current…
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