Police in the Bukhara Province in southwestern Uzbekistan have seized over 10 kg (22 lbs) of heroin from two drug couriers, a source in the republic's interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said the year of 2008 was favorable for the country and the people of Turkmenistan. He made this statement at a year-closing government meeting on 22 December which was broadcast on the national TV.
Presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan during the informal summit in Borovoi (Akmola region) made a decision on establishment of joint crisis fund, reported press service of the President of Kazakhstan on 22 December.
Those unwilling to serve their compulsary duty in the Kyrgyz army may avoid it by paying a 12,000 soms fee to the Defense Ministry and receive a military ticket within a month.
Russian minister of agriculture Alexei Gordeev met with Turkmenistan's agriculture minister Esenmyrat Orazgeldiyev on 20 December, the press service of Russia's agriculture ministry said.
Kazakhstan, which has one of the world's largest Uranium reserves, will supply nuclear material to India and interested in a comprehensive energy agreement.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) forecasts a slowdown in real GDP growth to 4.5% in 2009, from an estimated 6% in 2008, the November report of the organization read.
The second death anniversary of the late president of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenbashi), who died at the age of 67 on 21 December 2006, is being marked in Turkmenistan today.
