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Turkmenistan expects highest GDP growth in Central Asia

The Asian Development Bank predicts Turkmenistan's GDP growth at 6.5% in 2023, which is the highest among Central Asian countries, Trend reports. In ...

Uzbekistan recognized as safest country in Central Asia

Uzbekistan has become the safest country in Central Asia according to the World Population Review crime index, Nova24.uz reports. Uzbekistan ranked 99th out of 136 countries. Kazakhstan ranked 40th, and Kyrgyzstan ranked 31st. At the same time, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan are not in the ranking at all. Georgia (126), Armenia (127), Azerbaijan (103), Latvia (101) and Estonia (125) overtook Uzbekistan in the post-Soviet space. Russia was ranked 86th, Ukraine 57th, and Belarus ranked 27th. The...

Kazakhstan not to allow sanctioned goods to Russia

Since April 1, a goods monitoring system has been launched in Kazakhstan in order to prevent circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Roman Vasilenko told Al-Jazeera TV channel. The introduction of the system will not allow the use of the territory and jurisdiction of Kazakhstan for the supply of sanctioned goods to Russia. “There is no customs control on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia, and there are 51 border crossings between our countries. You ...

Tajikistan's economic growth may slow down due to fewer migrant remittances

The Tajik economy continues to show signs of slowing growth, with inflation accelerating in February, reports Asiaplustj.info with reference to the April Macroeconomic Review of the Eurasian Development Bank. The Review notes that in February of this year, the growth of the Tajik economy continued its gradual slowdown, "but remains at an elevated level." According to the EDB forecast, this year Tajikistan's GDP growth will be 6.5%. “A slowdown compared to 8% in 2022 is expected due to the comp...

Parliamentary Commission announces 47 tons of gold reserves in Kyrgyzstan

The temporary deputy commission of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan on studying the production and sale of gold, the activities of the gold mining company "Kumtor Gold Company" since the transfer to the ownership of Kyrgyzstan did not detect theft, distortion of the quantity, quality and cost of stored, exported and sold gold in the company, said the chairman of the temporary deputy commission Arslanbek Maliev. As of January 26, 2023, the balance of the gold reserves of Kyrgyzstan in the vault of t...

Customs authorities of Central Asia and China discuss issues of expanding cooperation

An online discussion was held between representatives of the customs services of Central Asia and China, the website of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan reports. The meeting was initiated by the General Administration of Customs of China, reports Orient.tm. The participants discussed the agenda and minutes of the upcoming meetings, as well as a detailed description of the draft document that regulates the mechanism for regular meetings of the heads of customs services in the "Central ...

Basel Institute to help Kazakhstan recover assets from abroad

The Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan has signed a cooperation agreement with the Basel Institute of Management in Switzerland. The ICAR International Asset Recovery Center, which is part of it, is one of the largest in the world, assisting law enforcement agencies of various countries, Kazpravda.kz reports. The institute's experts are ready to analyze and give recommendations to Kazakhstan on improving the legal acts regulating the issues of asset recovery; provide legal and advisory ...

Kyrgyzstan to receive Turkish anti-drones

Kyrgyzstan was among the four countries in which Turkey will supply its "anti-drones". The corresponding contracts were signed in 2022. This was reported by the Turkish magazine Defense Turk, which publishes materials on military issues, reports kaktus.media. Export agreements for the iHTAR anti-drone system, developed by the Turkish defense corporation ASELSAN to neutralize the threats of mini- and micro-unmanned aerial vehicles in urban and rural environments, Turkey has signed with the Turki...

Uzbekistan continue to pursue a multi-vector foreign policy

Uzbekistan will continue to pursue a pragmatic and multi-vector foreign policy based on national interests, Tanzila Narbayeva, chairwoman of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis, said, Sputnik reports citing the press service of the upper house of the Uzbek parliament. Narbayeva stated the position of the leadership of Uzbekistan at the opening of the 39th plenary session of the upper house of the country's parliament. In recent years, Uzbekistan has raised friendly neighborhood and close cooperation ...

6 Kazakhstanis enter list of richest people in world of Forbes 2023

Six Kazakhstanis entered the Forbes 2023 global rating: Vladimir Kim, Timur and Dinara Kulibaev, Vyacheslav Kim, Timur Turlov and Bulat Utemuratov, Forbes.kz reports. The fortune of the richest Kazakhstani Vladimir Kim (on the photo), according to Forbes, has decreased over the year from $5 billion to $4.6 billion. His name in the global ranking of the richest has fallen from 569 to 591 was in 622nd place with $3.7 billion). Kim's profile states that he "owns a stake in KAZMinerals and a majori...

Qatari holding JTA supported projects in Kyrgyzstan for $1 bln

The Qatari investment holding JTA holding supported a number of projects presented during the IBIF-2023 business forum held on March 13-14 in Bishkek. This was reported by the Akchabar portal with reference to the press service of the Islamic Business and Investment Corporation. According to them, a large social project "Muslim" was approved, the amount of financing of which is more than $1 billion. “This project is aimed at creating conditions for the purchase of automotive, special equipment...