Central Asia

Chinese president calls for strengthening friendship with Central Asia

Economic crisis in Afghanistan will directly entail economic problems in crisis in its partner countries

US threatens Kazakhstan with sanctions over aid to Russia

100 million cubic meters of water leak into sand in Turkmenistan due to Karakum Canal break

Uzbekistan suspends rail cargo shipments to Afghanistan starting from today

admin - February 1, 2023

Uzbekiston Temir Yullari (Uzbekistan's national railway company) has suspended railway cargo shipments to Afghanistan starting from today February 1 due to Kabul's failure to...

Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan finalizes the border delimitation process

admin - January 27, 2023

Media reports say Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have finalized the border delimitation process. A protocol on the exchange of resolutions to ratify November agreements on delimitation...

Kyrgyzstan to raise electricity tariff for residential customers by 30 percent

admin - January 23, 2023

Electricity rate for residential customers will rise 30 percent beginning on May 1, 2023 – from 0.077 som (equivalent to US$0.0089) to 1.00 som...

Payment of quarterly bonuses to public servants in Kyrgyzstan suspended for the purchase of military drones

admin - January 18, 2023

Kyrgyz media reports say no salary increase is planned in the country in 2023. Recall, the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek...

A woman in Tashkent oblast attacks an employee of the district power supply organization with knife

admin - January 18, 2023

Uzbek media reports say a woman in Tashkent oblast has attacked an employee of the district power supply organization with knife demanding he turn...

Turkmenistan halts gas exports to energy-starved Uzbekistan referring to it as “force majeure”

admin - January 17, 2023

Uzbek media reports say Turkmenistan halted natural gas exports to Uzbekistan on January12. Gazeta.uz reported that on that day, a telephone message was received from...

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow suggests amending Turkmenistan’s Constitution to bring back unicameral parliament

admin - January 12, 2023

Chairman of Turkmenistan’s upper chamber (Halk Maslahaty) of parliament Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow proposed to make amendments to change the country’s Constitution to bring back the...

Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court recognizes leader of nation law as null and void

admin - January 11, 2023

Vlast.kz says Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Court on January 12 adopted a resolution to recognize the Law on the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan...

Kyrgyz president invites creditors to write off the country’s external debt in exchange for channeling funds for ‘green projects’ implementation

admin - January 9, 2023

Kyrgyzstan President Sadyr Japarov has published appeal to the partner countries and international financial institutions on his social media page. "We see the smog problem...