TASHKENT (TCA) — China is competing with Russia for greater influence on Central Asia countries, using infrastructure and transport investment and projects to achieve that goal. We are republishing th ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — More than fifty agreements and contracts worth over $-6 billion were signed at the 8th Kyrgyz-Russian Interregional Conference held in Bishkek on March 27-28.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Publisher’s note: Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Central Asia was the scene of intense geopolitical struggle and the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires, an ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — China has thanked Kazakhstan for supporting its crackdown on the restive far-west region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of rights abuses against indigenous ethnic groups, inc ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is advising the government of Uzbekistan on a landmark public-private partnership (PPP) transaction that will lead to the creation of a 100-mega ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Rusprom and Transcom on March 27 signed a trilateral memorandum of cooperation to jointly implement a project to set up and develop an integrated e ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and the Russian–Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) have signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding, cooperation and interaction, the EDB’s press se ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $-100 million financing package to modernize aging equipment and improve power generation capacity at the Uch-Kurgan hydropower plant (H ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — Any future peace agreement in Afghanistan will be unsustainable if tens of thousands of Taliban militants are not adequately reintegrated into society, the US Special Inspector General f ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — During Russian President Vladimir Putin's one-day visit to Kyrgyzstan on March 28, Bishkek and Moscow agreed to expand the territory of Russia’s military base in the Central Asian coun ... Read More
BISHKEK (TCA) — “Improvement of quality education and high-tech technologies is a key priority for our country,” Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov said at the first forum of rectors of higher educa ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — The United States has removed Uzbek cotton from a list of products that are barred from the country of concerns about child labor, RFE/RL reported.
TASHKENT (TCA) — A delegation of Uzbekistan led by Deputy Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Badriddin Abidov visited Brussels where he discussed prospects for cooperation with the European Unio ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — Kazakhstan is interested in the further development of broad cooperation with the Council of Europe, particularly in the field of ensuring the rule of law, modernizing the justice s ... Read More
DUSHANBE (TCA) — RFE/RL’s Tajik service, Radio Ozodi, is facing Washington’s scrutiny, as critics say it is ineffective in performing its watchdog responsibilities in Tajikistan and overly accommodati ... Read More
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — At the Government meeting on March 26, after listening to reports of the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development Roman Sklyar and Minister of Energy Kanat Bozumbayev on ... Read More
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Turkmenistan to immediately lift a travel ban imposed on veteran correspondent Soltan Achilova and allow her to travel freely outs ... Read More
KABUL (TCA) — On a visit to Afghanistan's capital Kabul on March 26, EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini met with President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah to discuss the pea ... Read More
ASTANA (TCA) — President Nazarbayev’s resignation last week has triggered a smooth transition of power in Kazakhstan, but the country’s core economic and social problems can be solved only through car ... Read More
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed $-10 billion worth of agreements on cooperation in investment and finance, renewable energy, industry and infrastructure deve ... Read More
