JUNE 15 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kazakh PM Karim Massimov said that Russia would be allowed to continue using the Baikonur launch site in the south of the country to send rockets into space. Kazakhstan had suspended launches from Baikonur because of a row over debris from space rockets littering areas in northern Kazakhstan.
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(News report from Issue No. 093, published on June 22 2012)
DEC. 28 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – A Kyrgyzstan Airlines plane carrying 86 people crashed on landing at Osh airport. The Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-134 flipped over, injuring 31 people. Nobody was killed. Kyrgyzstan has a poor air safety record. In Aug. 2008, 65 people died when a plane bound for Iran crashed after taking off from Bishkek.
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(News report from Issue No. 71, published on Jan. 5 2012)
DEC. 16 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Tajikistan has rejected a new air traffic
control agreement with Uzbekistan, RFE/RL’s Tajik service reported. The new deal
was supposed to be a permanent replacement for the 16 year old agreement Uzbekistan ripped up this summer. Relations between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have deteriorated throughout the year.
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(News report from Issue No. 20, published on Dec. 20 2010)
OCT. 27 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed deals worth over $2b with French President Nikolas Sarkozy in Paris. Aerospace manufacturer EADS will form a joint venture to build helicopters in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan will buy 300 trains from engineering groups Alstom and nuclear energy company KazAtomProm will form a joint venture with Areva.
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(News report from Issue No. 13, published on Nov. 1 2010)
