Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict during a telephone conversation, Russian Foreign Ministry said on May 9. The sides discussed current international issues, "including the problems of settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the possible steps ...

Kyrgyzstan's court sentenced the son of the deposed president Maxim Bakiyev to another prison term. Pervomaisky District Court determined the sentence to 30 years in prison. It is reported by the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic. According to him, on April 29, the Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek considered the criminal case against Maxim ...

Kyrgyzstan was included into the top five countries with the best legislative protection of the rights of borrowers and lenders. The President of the Kyrgyz Republic Almazbek Atambayev said in his congratulatory speech on the Day of Bank Workers. The Head of State noted that the professional holiday is associated with a historical for independent ...

A visa-free travel deal between the EU and Turkey was on the brink of collapse on Friday night, after Turkey’s president insisted he would not change his country’s anti-terrorism laws, a key condition of the agreement. “We’ll go our way, you go yours,” said Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. When the European commission made a conditional ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have agreed to seek a new approach to their nations' overdue peace treaty, a senior Japanese cabinet official said Monday. Russia and Japan have been de facto at war since 1945 when they failed to agree on the Kuril Islands ownership. Putin and Abe ...

Annual military exercises, Noble Partner, will be held on May 11-26 at the Vaziani training area, east of Tbilisi, with the participation of 500 Georgian, 650 U.S. and 150 United Kingdom service members. U.S. army’s M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks were ferried from Bulgaria across the Black Sea to Georgia for the first time for the purpose of the ...

Kazakhstan's Agriculture Minister Assylzhan Mamytbekov has resigned, a source in the ministry told the Kazinform news agency. During the meeting in Akorda (presidential palace of Kazakhstan) on May 5, the country's President Nursultan Nazarbayev said that the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of National Economy failed to handle their ...

In the result of the progress achieved, the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) of Turkmenistan in January-April 2016 has remained steady at the level of 6.3 percent, the country's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said, the government reported in a message May 7. The president, speaking at a meeting of the county's cabinet of ministers,...

May, 08, 2016 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the country’s exports of oil will be soon equal to the level of pre-sanctions era, noting that part of the banking problems will be also fixed. In an address to a meeting of the administration and the incoming parliament, held in Tehran on Saturday night, President Rouhani said the oil exports ...

Prime Minister Karim Massimov introduced on 06 May new Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Kuandyk Bishimbayev to the Ministry's staff. K.Bishimbayev was born on April 11, 1980. In 1999 he graduated from the Kazakh State Academy of Management majoring in International Economic Relations. In 2001, he graduated from the Management and Business ...

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has appointed Dauren Abayev the country's minister of information and communications, Kazakh president's press service said May 6. Earlier, Abayev served as advisor and spokesperson of Kazakh president. Nazarbayev ordered to create the Ministry of Information and Communications on Apr.5. The ...

Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has appointed Askar Myrzakhmetov as the country's agriculture minister, said the president's press service May 6. Myrzakhmetov has served as the First Deputy Chairman of Kazakhstan's ruling Nur Otan party since August 2015. He served as Kazakhstan's agriculture minister in 2005-2006....

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov invited companies and financial institutions of Saudi Arabia to take part in the construction project of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) transnational gas pipeline, the Turkmen government said in a message May 2. The proposal was made during the Turkmen president's meeting ...

09 May 2016- President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev came yesterday to Moscow for the Victory Day Parade. Upon arrival, the Head of State met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Akorda press service informs. N. Nazarbayev congratulated V.Putin on the 71st anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and on the first launch ...

May, 08, 2016 – Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh and visiting Turkmen Foreign Minister Rasit Meredow held talks on ways to boost cooperation between the two neighboring countries in various energy fields, including swap of crude oil and gas. In the meeting held here in Tehran on Saturday night, the two ministers exchanged views on ...

07 May 2016- Kazakhstan is expected to produce 74 million tons of oil in 2016 according to the country's social and economic development forecast, Kazakh Energy Ministry told Trend. Meanwhile, the country's oil output is expected at the level of 75 million tons in 2017, 76 million tons - in 2018, according to the forecast. The results of ...

06 May 2016- At least 70% of all army equipment will be renewed over the next few years, President Nursultan Nazarbayev told at the concert dedicated to the Fatherland Defender's Day. The Head of State stressed that building of the national army, Air Forces, Navy was one of the most important moments of the history of independent Kazakhstan. N....

Friday, May 6, 2016, A recent show of willingness by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia can be considered as an extension of Moscow’s new Middle East policy, which was founded when the country’s President Vladimir Putin came to office. Following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, especially ...

Thursday, May 5, 2016 , President Hassan Rouhani has praised Iran's nuclear agreement with the P5+1 countries, saying it had resulted in a win-win outcome, and ended up benefiting as many as 188 countries. “In our region, there are one or two countries that feel losses from the JCPOA outcome,” Rouhani said. “Surely, that’...

Tuesday, May 3, 2016, Last year, a spokesperson for the terrorist Daesh (ISIL) group announced establishment of the so-called Wilayat Khorasan (Khurasan Province) declaring parts of Turkmenistan as falling within the limits of this province. The development was just a sign of the increasing influence of Daesh in Turkmenistan during the past year. The ...