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Azerbaijani airline orders Boeings

MARCH 3 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Baku-based freight carrier Silk Road West has ordered three Boeing 747-8 cargo planes for a reported $1.1b, Boeing said in a statement. The deal is a major one for Boeing and shows Silk Road West’s confidence.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

Tax on alcohol in Georgia rises

MARCH 1 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Georgia increased the amount of tax imposed on alcoholic drinks by 50% to 60 tetri. The government said the rise is needed to align its tax base with EU regulations. Opponents said this is not the case and that it is just trying to raise extra revenues.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

EU backs Kazakhstan for business

MARCH 3 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kazakhstan’s foreign minister Erlan Idrissov flew to Brussels for a meeting with the EU where both sides committed to deepening their partnerships. The EU’s backing is important for Kazakhstan because of the growing stigma in the West over former Soviet countries’ ties to Russia.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

Remittance flows to Tajikistan drop

FEB. 25 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Remittance flows from Russia to Tajikistan dropped by 8.3% in 2014 compared to 2013, the Tajik Central Bank said. Remittances are vital to the Tajik economy but have dried up slightly since sanctions and a drop in energy prices hit the Russian economy.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

Azerbaijan paying for teams to go to the Games

FEB. 25 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Azerbaijan is paying Britain to send a team of 160 athletes to compete at the inaugural European Games in Baku this year, the Guardian newspaper reported. In an interview, the British team manager, Mark England, said Azerbaijan was giving “participation grants”. Azerbaijan’s Olympic Committee said it was paying travel and other costs for all 50 teams to compete.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

Measles surge in Kyrgyzstan

MARCH 2 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) -Citing Kyrgyzstan as one of the countries worst affected by a surge in measles, the World Health Organisation (WHO) called for a mass vaccination to prevent the disease spreading. WHO said Kyrgyzstan had 7,477 new measles cases since the start of 2014, out of 22,000 recorded in the Europe region.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

TV host murdered in Uzbekistan

MARCH 2 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Popular Uzbek TV host, Rakhmatilla Mirzayev, has been stabbed to death, Uzbek media reported. Media did not give a motive for the murder of Mirzayev who was 60-years-old and had worked for Uzbek TV for 40 years. His death, though, will once again place Uzbekistan’s rule-of-law under scrutiny.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

Sedatives found in Aliyev’s body

FEB. 27 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) -An autopsy found sedatives in the bloodstream of Rakhat Aliyev, former son-in-law of Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was found hanged in his Vienna prison cell last month, Reuters reported quoting an Austrian prosecutor. Austrian officials said Aliyev killed himself. Austria has asked Switzerland for a second autopsy.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

Kyrgyz parliament vote on gay laws

FEB. 26 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kyrgyz lawmakers are likely to vote on a bill that will criminalise promoting gay relationships in the next few weeks, the AFP news agency reported. The law is similar to Russian legislation that has attracted worldwide condemnation and, if passed, would possibly isolate Kyrgyzstan further from the West.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)

Germany-Uzbekistan trade deal

MARCH 3 2015 (The Conway Bulletin) – On a trip to Berlin, Uzbek officials agreed business deals worth $2.8b, Uzbekistan’s trade ministry said. The statement said most of the deals were related to various infrastructure projects. Relations between Germany and Uzbekistan are relatively close. Germany maintains a military base in south Uzbekistan.
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(News report from Issue No. 221, published on March 4 2015)