MAY 13 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) – The Uzbek government opened the first state university devoted entirely to the study of Uzbek language and literature. The new university, named after Alisher Navoi, a 15th century linguist and poet, is located in Tashkent. The Uzbek government considers Uzbek language as part of its national brand and an important part of its nation building.
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MAY 17 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) — Bulgarian oil company Prista and Uzbekistan’s Uzneftprodukt opened a new oil recycling plant in Angren, eastern Uzbekistan. The new plant will process 43,000 tonnes of used oil and produce 30,000 tonnes of fuel per year. The venture spent around $15m building the plant. Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov travelled to Tashkent to take part in the inauguration ceremony.
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MAY 18 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) – The Tajik ministry of labour said that outbound migration decreased by 10% in the first four months of 2016, compared to the same period last year. Around 200,000 Tajik labour migrants left the country in Jan.-April 2016. Around 87% of the migrants are men. Most of them head to Russia for work. Remittances from migrants are an important part of Tajikistan’s economy.
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MAY 17 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) – German lawmakers scheduled for June a vote on whether to label the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as a “genocide”, a move that will score a major victory for Armenian lobby groups. In a 2005 resolution, the German parliament fell short of calling the deaths a genocide. France, Italy and a handful of other European countries recognise the 1915 events as a genocide, which irritates Turkey.
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MAY 15 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) — Thousands of Hazara, a minority group in Afghanistan, marched through Kabul to protest against the re-routing of a section of a power line that will transmit electricity from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The protests shows just how sensitive the issue of routing various power lines and pipelines through Afghanistan has become as they generate income for communities. As well as this power line, Afghanistan will also host a power line dubbed
CASA-1000 which will send power to Pakistan from Tajikistan and the TAPI pipeline which will pump Turkmen gas to India
The government has said a route change for the Turkmenistan-Pakistan power line would cut costs.
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MAY 17 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev appointed Abdikarim Alimbayev as the new chairman of the State Border Service. His predecessor, Raimberdi Duyshenbiyev, was appointed Chief of Staff. The Border Service is an important office in Kyrgyzstan. Unresolved border disputes with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have triggered clashes in the past months.
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MAY 19 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) – An Antonov-12 cargo plane operated by Azerbaijan’s Silk Way Airlines crashed on take-off at Dwyer airport in south Afghanistan on Wednesday evening, media reported. Seven of the nine crew members were killed in the crash. The authorities later identified the dead as the Uzbek pilot, five Azerbaijani crew members and one Ukrainian technician. Two Ukrainians survived.
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MAY 16 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) — French energy company Total asked for help from the Azerbaijani government with selling its share of gas from the Absheron field in the Caspian Sea, a source close to the deal told Natural Gas Europe. Total has not commented. Total said it will start production at the Absheron field in 2021 and has yet to sign export contracts for its gas.
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MAY 13 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kyrgyzstan’s Statistics Committee said that revenues from exports fell by 25.8% to $287.1m in Q1 2016, compared to the same period last year. Notably, revenues from gold exports shrank by 2.6 times. Centerra Gold, the Canadian company exploiting the Kumtor gold mine, had said that delays in shipments had hit sales. Kumtor is Kyrgyzstan’s largest asset.
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MAY 18 2016 (The Conway Bulletin) — Russian miner Polymetal increased its production guidance for the next three years to reflect the gold deposits it has bought in Armenia and Kazakhstan this year. By the year 2020, the Kapan and Komarovskoye mines will add 12.5% to Polymetal’s total production. Polymetal bought Kapan, located in southern Armenia, in March and Komarovskoye, in north-east Kazakhstan, in April.
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