DEC. 25 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Turganbek Stanbekov, the head of the Kazakh border guard security service, and 26 other military officials and crew died in a plane crash near Shymkent in southern Kazakhstan. Media reported that the plane had been trying to land at Shymkent airport in bad weather when it crashed.
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(News report from Issue No. 118, published on Dec. 28 2012)
OCT. 13/14 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – A series of shallow earthquakes shook the region around the Azerbaijan-Georgia border. No casualties were reported although the magnitude 5.3 and 4.8 earthquakes rocked Tbilisi and other towns.
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(News report from Issue No. 109, published on Oct. 19 2012)
OCT. 4 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – An explosion disabled the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline which pumps gas from the Shah Deniz fields in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea to Turkey, media reported. This is the second explosion in the Turkish part of the BTC pipeline, a route critical for European gas supplies, this year.
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(News report from Issue No. 107, published on Oct. 5 2012)
MAY 30 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – A shallow earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter Scale shook Almaty, 150km from the epicentre. Since then, local authorities have measured at least eight aftershocks although no serious damage has been reported. Last year a similar size earthquake panicked people living in the city.
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(News report from Issue No. 090, published on June 1 2012)
MAY 12 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Five people died in Tbilisi after heavy rain caused a canal to overflow and flood a suburb of the town. The deaths highlight the poor housing, likened by some local media to slums, which some Tbilisi residents live in. News agencies had earlier reported that the Mtkvari River, that runs through central Tbilisi, had flooded but the authorities denied this.
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(News report from Issue No. 088, published on May 18 2012)
MAY 8 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Sixteen people died when an overcrowded mini-bus carrying migrant workers to Russia from southern Kyrgyzstan hit an oncoming truck. The route to and from Russia is lucrative as hundreds of thousands of workers, especially from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, work in Russia. The roads, though, can be dangerous.
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(News report from Issue No. 087, published on May 11 2012)
MAY 7 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale and a series of aftershocks jolted Azerbaijan. The earthquake’s epicentre was in the rural northwest of the country around 450km from Baku. Local media reported that several hundred houses were damaged in the earthquake although nobody was killed.
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(News report from Issue No. 087, published on May 11 2012)
FEB. 17 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Facing a growing threat from wolves, Armenia’s government said it would pay hunters $260 for every wolf they kill. Officials want to cull 200 wolves of an estimated population of 600. Attacks on villages have risen as wolves adapt to the cold weather and deforestation.
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(News report from Issue No. 78, published on Feb. 23 2012)
FEB. 3 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Officials in Kyrgyzstan confirmed 70 new cases of children infected with HIV/AIDS. Nurses have been screening thousands of children in the south of the country after at least 200 infants were accidentally infected with the virus. Re-used needles and infected blood have been blamed.
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(News report from Issue No. 76, published on Feb. 9 2012)
FEB. 6 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – A fire broke out at one of Kazakhstan’s three oil refineries. Nobody was hurt in the fire at the refinery in Shymkent, near the Uzbek border, and an official said production was not affected. A broken oil pipe, fractured by the cold weather, was blamed for the fire.
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(News report from Issue No. 76, published on Feb. 9 2012)
