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Kyrgyz officials take cultural wrong turn
experiences, and confront the topic of sexual violence. Since American Eve Ensler wrote the play in 1996, it has been performed in over 140 countries and translated into 48 languages. A performance is scheduled for April 12 in Bishkek. The Culture Ministry sent a letter to local media outlets on April 1 saying the Vagina Monologues advocates "unnatural, perverted sex under the slogan of ...
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Azerbaijan works to return citizens detained in Iran
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry continues the coordination work to get released Azerbaijani scholar Khalida Khalid and her assistant Shamkhal Huseynov, who have been detained in Tabriz earlier. The statement came from spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan Elman Abdullayev at a press conference ...
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China Tajikistan establish strategic partnership
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon at the signing of a joint announcement to establish a strategic partnership, after their talks in Beijing, capital of China, May 20, 2013. Photo: XinhuaChina and Tajikistan established a strategic partnership on Monday, pledging to boost bilateral cooperation.The announcement was made during talks held between ...
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Large-scale operations launched in regions of Azerbaijan bordering Russia
The operations are underway on north and north-west of Azerbaijan, APA reports. It involves bodies Azerbaijani and Russian law enforcement agencies. Posts have been created in Zaqatala, residents say. The police check both outgoing and incoming cars. Though Gakh Police Department confirmed the launch of operations, it declined to provide details citing its confidentiality. Guba Police ...
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Iranian FM to trip to Azerbaijan
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi plans to visit Azerbaijan soon, Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan reports. Salehi had a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov ...
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Relations with Russia occupy important place in Azerbaijan’s foreign policy
Ali Hasanov visits Astrakhan. Head of the Azerbaijani delegation arriving in Astrakhan for participation in ceremonies on occasion of the 90th jubilee of national leader, Heydar Aliyev, chief of the public policy department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov met the governor of Astrakhan, Alexander Zhilkin on 20 May. Special correspondent of AzerTag, governor of the ...
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Russia was to get high score from Azerbaijan – chief of Public TV
Director of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev made a statement on the calculation of Azerbaijani votes for Russia in Eurovision 2013 song contest? AzerTag reports. The statement says: "Russia is a country that has much in common with Azerbaijan-these are common interests, common human values and common history. Today, cultural and artistic ties of Azerbaijan and Russia ...
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Russia multiplies gas routes to Europe
By Vladimir Socor Russian President Vladimir Putin and Gazprom are announcing colossal plans to expand the capacities of existing gas export pipelines and build new ones, all in Europe beyond Russia's territory. Gazprom already co-owns and controls export pipeline capacities amounting to some 110 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year in Europe beyond Russia (Nord Stream One and Two, ...
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Turkey-produced armored patrol vehicle to be presented in Azerbaijan
Armored patrol vehicle Pit-Bull VX, newly produced by Turkish Katmerciler company, will be presented in Azerbaijan, company representative Ramazan Dincer told APA. The vehicle designed for police and patrol operations was produced at Ford-550 chassis. Its maintenance is easy: "Net weight – 7530 kg, Pit-Bull VX is designed to carry 9 persons (2+7). The vehicle can move at a speed of ...
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Investments in Azerbaijans oil sector top $1.8bn in January-April
Investments in Azerbaijan's oil sector amounted to AZN1,414,000,000 ($1,805,000,000 by the current exchange rate ) by results of January-April ...
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Black Boxes Found Amid US Refueling Plane Debris in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Flight recorders from a US military plane that crashed in northern Kyrgyzstan in early May have been found, the republic’s Transport and Communication Ministry said on Monday. The Boeing KC-135 aerial refueling tanker, carrying three American crewmembers, crashed into a mountain ...
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Azerbaijan and Turkish company to jointly produce thermal weapon sight
APA that relevant technologies on the production of the thermal system have already been handed to the "Optika" production unit of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense Industry. Currently, under the license of ASELSAN, Azerbaijan is producing "Tekgoz" optical system. ASELSAN also said that at present the Azerbaijani Armed Forces are widely using the company-produced ...
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Azerbaijan’s oil output rises
Oil refineries of Azerbaijan produced 1.693mln tons of oil products in January-April 2012. The production of oil products rose 13.4% from the same period last ...
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Chemical plant explosion kills one injures three in Inner Mongolia
HOHHOT, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Fire fighters on Sunday morning put out the blaze in a chemical plant in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, which has caused one dead and three others injured.The accident happened around 5 p.m. Saturday at Inner Mongolia 3F Fluorochemical Co. Ltd. in the city of Fengzhen. A huge amount of flammable gas has been leaked after the chemical plant ...
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Enemies not to create trouble in Azerbaijan-Iran ties
Chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Board Allahshukur Pashazade is on a visit to Iran. Members of the Azerbaijan-Iran Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group are also part of the ...
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EM ASIA FX-Baht near 3-mth low after weaker growth Sing dlr rebounds
* Thai Q1 GDP down 2.2 pct q/q, up 5.3 pct y/y; both below expectations * Thai fin min says worried about growth, wants rate cut * Singapore dollar up on short-covering after worst week in a year (Adds text, updates prices) By Jongwoo Cheon SEOUL, May 20 (Reuters) - The Thai baht hit a near three-month low against the dollar on Monday as news the economy shrank in ...
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Azerbaijan exports over 2.3bn cu m of gas in January-April
In January-April this year, according to meters, Azerbaijan exported 2,345bn cubic metres of natural gas. Of this volume, 1.565bn cubic meters in the amount of USD 364.213m were exported on customs ...
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Ukraine looks to Turkmenistan
By Roman Muzalevsky On February 12, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych paid a three-day visit to gas-rich Turkmenistan to sign a memorandum of understanding on energy cooperation and reiterate Kiev's interest in resuming direct imports of the Central Asian country's natural gas, which were suspended in 2006. The visit revealed Kiev and Ashgabat's strong desire to reduce ...
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Kazakhstan-Korea trade changes shape
By Richard Weitz Kazakhstan has become South Korea's (also known as the Republic of Korea - ROK) main economic partner in Central Asia, and powerful complementarities exist between Astana's desire for foreign capital and technologies, especially in order to develop its infrastructure and new high-technology sectors, and Seoul's need for natural resources, particularly energy ...
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Kyrgyzstan seeks to double its GDP
reforms and intends to spend US$13 billion to double gross domestic product (GDP) in five years, drawing on aid and investment to fund projects in agriculture, mining, transport, power and other sectors. Doubling the GDP will require an annual growth rate of at least 7%. Kyrgyzstan's GDP growth is projected at 8.5% in 2013, up to 7.5% in 2014, and up to 3.5% in 2015; inflation is ...
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Russias cash flight to gather momentum
By Pavel K Baev Last week marked the anniversary of the shocking performance staged by the Pussy Riot punk rock group in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. And this year saw a spectacular increase in the density of "patriotic" political noise silencing common sense in debates over such matters as separation of church and state, homosexual "propaganda" or the ...
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Nazarbayev brings in new blood
By Georgiy Voloshin Just two weeks into 2013, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced the reorganization of the country's government. On January 16, he ordered the establishment of a new ministry in charge of regional development whose head, Bakhytzhan Sagintayev, had previously led the day-to-day activities of the ruling Nur Otan party in the capacity of its ...
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Kazakhstan seeks wider horizons
By Sergei Gretsky Kazakhstan is well known for the successful transformation of its economy following independence more than 20 years ago, and the leadership has consistently set ambitious goals to solidify the gains and diversify the economy to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The year 2012 ended on a high note - the 2012-2013 Global Competitiveness Report by the World Economic ...
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Tajikistan regions still at war
By Shavkat Kasymov Fifteen years have passed since a peace agreement which ended a five-year long civil war in Tajikistan. Fought between regional groups and the national government of president Rahmon Nabiyev, the conflict killed between 50,000 and 100,000 and displaced more than a million. Presidential elections scheduled for the fall offer an opportunity to reflect on the disastrous ...
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Xi may hold key to Moscow gas goals
By Sergie Blagov Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich traveled to China on February 25 to attend a first meeting of the bilateral intergovernmental commission on energy cooperation. The commission was formed in December 2012 to replace the bilateral Russia-China energy dialogue. Dvorkovich held talks with his Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier Wang Qishan, to discuss ties in the ...
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Central Asia's French Revolution
The crisis that recently gripped Kyrgyzstan and saw President Bakiyev forced from power represents, for Central Asian countries, something similar to what the French Revolution represented to the aristocracy of Europe – that the masses are gathering and uniting.
Kyrgyzstan’s political tensions had been rising long before the riots that were broadcast all over the world and across Central Asia news stations, showing images of an angry mod swarming the street, and the dramatic moment at which a van was sent crashing through the ornate main gates of the Presidential Palace. Read more
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