ALMATY (TCA) — Kazakhstan's national currency, the tenge, has reached a new low against the US dollar.

BISHKEK (TCA) — Defending the frontier with Afghanistan has become top priority for the three former Soviet republics bordering it in 2015.

ALMATY (TCA) — The year 2015 is bound to stay on people’s memories in Kazakhstan as the year everybody expected the curtain to fall – on people’s

BISHKEK (TCA) — Yesterday, January 11, the exchange rate of the Kyrgyz currency, the som, weakened against the US dollar, to 76.3 soms per $1,

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Authorities in Turkmenistan have restricted the use of hard currencies in the country. Banks in Turkmenistan have stopped

BISHKEK (TCA) — On January 12 the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic issued licenses to Kompanion Bank CJSC to conduct banking operations in

BISHKEK (TCA) — Small and medium enterprises account for around 40 percent of GDP in Kyrgyzstan, Deputy Economy Minister of Kyrgyzstan Daniyar

ALMATY (TCA) — The National Bank of Kazakhstan said that the country’s international reserves, including gold and foreign currency reserves of

ASHGABAT (TCA) — On January 12 the Central Bank of Turkmenistan published on its website a press release on introducing restrictions on free

ALMATY (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s chief banker has said the National Bank of Kazakhstan is not planning any restrictions on operations with cash

ALMATY (TCA) — State officials in oil crisis-hit Kazakhstan have discovered a $20 billion hole on the balance sheet of the National Wealth Fund.

DUSHANBE (TCA) — The National Bank of Tajikistan is drafting amendments to the country’s Criminal Code to introduce jail terms of up to nine

DUSHANBE (TCA) — In 2015 gold reserves of the National Bank of Tajikistan grew 40 percent and the total gold and foreign-currency reserves

ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has set the task to fully meet the country’s need for fuel with domestic oil products

DUSHANBE (TCA) — An equivalent of up to US $50 million may be lost by Tajik families that receive money remittances from their relatives working

BISHKEK (TCA) — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Edward Gemayel visited Kyrgyzstan during January 29 to February 4 to

ALMATY (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s currency is in a very bad shape. There are various reasons for that, and although President Nazarbayev advises his

ALMATY (TCA) — The deficit of the balance of payments of Kazakhstan for 2015 is preliminarily estimated at US $5.3 billion compared to a surplus

DUSHANBE (TCA) — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff mission, led by Mr. Paul Ross, visited Tajikistan from February 1 to 10 to discuss

BISHKEK (TCA) — Theoretically, Kyrgyzstan may withdraw from the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia as