Traditions of the Kyrgyz people were being formed with the help of economic, trade, domestic and other relations with kindred and other tribes that were closely related to the geography of their ha...
After the coup of 19 March 1953 in the socio-political history of Iran there were fundamental changes: the powers of parliament were limited and the absolute power of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was...
In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran are two countries that claim to leadership in the region. With a powerful resources and political potential these countries are the...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has on Tuesday met his Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev at the Grand Kremlin Palace as part of his working visit to Russia.
The presidents praised the development of the relations between the two countries in different fields, and expressed satisfaction with the activity of the joint intergovernmental commission.
They stressed the importance of reciprocal visits, saying they greatly contribute to developing the bilateral ties.
At present, work on the construction of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway is underway at a high pace, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov said in his address to participants of International Conference "Prospects of development of transport and transit in Central Asian and Caspian region", which opened in Ashgabat on Wednesday.
An international conference on the prospects of development of transport and transit traffic in the region of Central Asia and the Caspian Sea was opened in Ashgabat on Wednesday.
The event is organized by the Turkmen government jointly with the International Road Transport Union, with the support of specialized institutions and agencies of the UN, OSCE and the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Transport Corridor (TRACECA) Intergovernmental Commission.
It is attended by representatives of 20 countries and 15 international organizations.
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at the informal CIS summit in Moscow was invited to visit Ashgabat on November 2 this year to attend a meeting of the Council of the CIS Heads of State, local media reported on Wednesday. Berdimuhamedov is in Russia on a working visit (May 15-16).
'On this occasion, the Turkmen leader invited the presidents of the Commonwealth to visit Ashgabat on November 2 this year to attend a meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State', a statement from the Turkmen government said.
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Kyrgyzstan for an official visit, the press service of the Kyrgyz President reported on Wednesday. The invitation was accepted with gratitude.
The invitation was made at a meeting between the two presidents on Tuesday during the CSTO Collective Security Council and the informal summit of the CIS Heads of State in Moscow.
Tajik authorities have promised to rebuild homes affected by a devastating earthquake in the east of the country on May 13, by the early autumn-winter period, CA-News quotes the country's government as saying on Wednesday.
"On behalf of the government by the early autumn-winter season, all the affected homes should be rebuilt," the source said.
According to the Emergency Situations and Civil Defence Committee, 72 houses were fully destroyed and 85 partially damaged in the Tavildara district as a result of the earthquake.
At least 46 people were killed across Syria Tuesday in violence that targeted restive cities in the north and east, while a United Nations convoy was attacked in a rebel area, activists said, dpa reported.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces in the Khan Sheikhoun area had fired on two vehicles carrying members of the UN observing team monitoring a shaky UN-brokered ceasefire, which went into effect on April 12.
A car of UN observers in Syria has been damaged as a result of an explosion in the province of Idlib, The Voice of Russia reported.
The local media reported on Tuesday that none of the observers suffered from the explosion. No details have been reported yet.
The first attempt on peacemakers in Syria occurred on the 9th of May. An explosion thundered on the way of a convoy of trucks carrying the head of the mission Norwegian General Robert Mood. The incident happened at the approaches to the city of Dera'a, 110km south of Damascus. Several Syrian soldiers were injured.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed suggestions that the crisis in Syria stems from a sectarian rift between the Sunni majority and Alawites, and slammed Turkey's main opposition leader for siding with President Bashar al-Assad, apparently due to sectarian affinities, Today's Zaman reported.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said Macedonia's membership in NATO will greatly contribute to regional stability and that NATO's only Muslim member Turkey will do everything to tackle barriers facing the country's membership, Today's Zaman reported.
6 were killed, 24 were wounded as a result of a militant attack on an army checkpoint in northern Iraq. This was reported Tuesday by local security forces, The Voice of Russia reported.
The extremists blew up an explosive-laden car, and entered an exchange of fire with the military. The attack took place west of the city of Mosul.
Recent election defeats for opponents of Turkey's bid for EU membership offer a chance to unfreeze negotiations, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told an audience in Turkey on Tuesday, Today's Zaman reported.
"After the latest elections we have the chance, but we also have the challenge, to overcome this frozen situation," Westerwelle told a forum hosted by the Sabancı University İstanbul Policy Group.
Japanese-German brand "Fujitsu" begins a large-scale project of the country's computerization in Georgia from May 15.
Corporation "Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH" has decided to make investments in Georgia, which aim is: a consumer buys a Fujitsu laptop manufactured in Germany on credit for a year, while interest on installments is paid by "Fujitsu".
In connection with this innovation, "Fujitsu" will sign a memorandum with the six major banks in Tbilisi on May 15, after which the project will be declared open.
Iran and China will be closely cooperating in joint medicine production, IRIB News reported.
Iran's healthcare minister Marziyeh Vahid Dastjerdi is in China, holding talks with Deputy Head of China's Food and Medicine Administration Organization Wu Chen. Dastjerdi has been in China since Sunday, upon the invitation from Chinese authorities.
According to Dastjedi, Islamic Republic of Iran currently produces 96 percent of all its medicine domestically, including biological medicaments and herbaceous drugs.
Managing-Director of Iran's Kish Bilateral Insurance Institute Mohammad Reza Mohammadi Banayi announced on Sunday that a giant Chinese oil tanker company has requested his institute to give insurance coverage to its tankers, Fars News reported.
"The Chinese company asked for our institute's assistance to receive insurance services for (its) oil tankers," Mohammadi Banayi told FNA.
He said his company can provide insurance coverage only for its members, which are the Iranian ships working for the Iranian Oil Tankers Company.
Japan planned to sign a contract with the United States next month for the purchase of four F-35 stealth fighter jets despite a price increase for the aircraft, local media reported Monday.
The fighter jets are set to be delivered before the end of fiscal year 2016 and may cost about 138 million U.S. dollars per unit. The Japanese government is making arrangements with the U.S. for the purchase as part of the budget in the current fiscal year which ends next March, Xinhua reported.
Senior Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Ryuji Yamane arrived on a visit to Uzbekistan.
On Thursday he held a meeting at the Foreign Ministry which was attended by Japanese Ambassador Yoshihisa Kuroda.
As the Foreign Ministry said, during the negotiations the sides exchanged views on the status and prospects of Uzbek-Japanese relations, as well as on regional issues.
Construction of a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China via Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will facilitate the convergence of Tashkent and Bishkek, an independent Kyrgyz economic expert, doctor of economic sciences, professor Ayilchi Saribayev believes.
Today there are a significant number of sites of religious-extremist orientation on the Internet. They pose a threat to countries in Central, Eastern and South-East Asia and the Middle East, because they are agitating for an armed struggle against religious dissent, call for the overthrow of secular regimes and the establishment of theocratic states.
In the coming decades humanity may encounter a very serious crisis begotten by lack of drinking water. Tony Clarke — Director of the Polaris Research Institute — thinks that the crisis may be serious enough to threaten the existence of the human race.
During the period when Pervez Musharraf was President of Pakistan American army had all the freedom to do anything in the territory of the country. With today’s Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari the situation has not changed. As a number of politics specialists believe, Musharraf realized what further concessions to America may lead to, at timely retired. The US does not seem to understand it. The rights and liberties of the population in the tribal and northern provinces of this country are brutally violated by the US army and no one bears responsibility for it.
Soon it will be twenty years since the independence and the beginning of revolutionary changes in the history of Kyrgyzstan. Then, for the first time from getting the sovereignty the Kyrgyz...
Today the problems of combating extremism and terrorism are extremely urgent to the republic. They appeared since the independence in 1991. At that time the people began an intense search for...
One of the most important foreign policy events in the life of Turkmenistan for the past two months was the International Conference "Ecological aspects of trans-Caspian pipelines" opened on...
According to the forecast Central Asia expect the increase of the population to 60 million people. It will happen in the nearest future and will get around the countries such as, for example, the...
Fundamentals of military cooperation between the SCO member states were laid on April 26, 1996 with the signing of the Agreement on the strengthening of confidence-building measures in the military...
It’s clear that in the definition of democracy by ancient politicians in the statement that people are the arbiter of policy, and also in the modern definition of democracy that is based on the concept of "right", you can find a reflection of the reality of living in two historical periods that are different from each other. Despite all the sympathy for these definitions, some political systems based on these concepts, according to the will of the majority of people made serious mistakes and blunders.
Understanding of the concept 'recognition' by the parties also contributes to the strengthening and maintaining the progress of the peace; in other words, the concept of peace by its nature involves the concept of 'recognition'. This is one of the conditions for maintaining and further strengthening of the peace. Member-parties of the peace agreement should always recognize each other.
The establishment of a lasting and real peace in any country is connected to two factors: internal and external. As for Afghanistan, the intelligentsia of the country has always had a problem - what key issues may arise in the process of building peace in Afghanistan, what can help solve the existing problems, what can contribute to the peace building in the country?
The US President Barack Obama has repeatedly stated that the withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan will begin in 2011 and will be completed in 2014, but may this be done in the present circumstances, when the Taliban movement is still too strong to give up.
In a small prosperous kingdom of Bahrain, one of the most open and liberal Arab countries, which is rich in oil, fresh water, marine resources that make up the backbone of the economy of this state, happened mass protests of opposition. The riots began in February 2011 on the Pearl Square of the capital, which was later renamed in Tahrir Square (Liberation). Most of the media described this popular uprising in Bahrain as a riot, now common in the Arab world.
As we know, History can give answers to the most complex issues on the agenda of Modernity and Future. All this is true if we talk about the story of Chinese presence in the heart of Eurasia: Modern Central Asia and adjacent spaces. It seems that this story clearly highlights not only the locomotive role of China in the economic sphere, but also a very positive role of Russia in Eurasia in the political, economic and security spheres related to the integration functions in the Eurasian processes established by the Russian government since the XIX century.
On 11 March, 2011 Japan experienced one of the strongest ever recorded earthquakes of 9.0-magnitude on the Richter scale. Stronger than this one were only the earthquakes in Sumatra in 2004 and in Chile back in 1960. A tide of 3 to 10 meters struck the northeastern coast of “The Land of the Rising Sun”, killing more than 11 thousand people. This was one of the greatest disasters of mankind. The strength of earthquake shocks and tsunami wave height were close to the maximum values, but the number of victims for such powerful natural disaster was relatively small.
Readers are suggested to read an analytical material of Xu Xiaotian, the head of research department on Central Asia of Chinese Academy of Modern International Relations.
The modern world is the era of changes, in which China, having been declared as the 2010 second economy in the world, is confidently moving to the status of the world economic leader. The creation of the most powerful economy in the world is impossible without the support of the resource base of the economy. If to talk about China it is, first of all, energy. So while in 1999 China imported 15-20% of its oil, at the present time, the share is approaching to 80%.
Summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) on the island of Russian near Vladivostok that was planned for September 2012 is known by the Russian average man by the official news about the large-scale works for the construction of infrastructure. This by-side of the major international events overshadowed the main content of the upcoming forum and the gains that Russia can obtain in the right direction of its policy.
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