A planned new Uzbek power station could mean more electricity for Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
In November, the Uzbek state company Uzbekenergo announced plans to build a power station in the next five years in southern Surkhandarya Oblast bordering Afghanistan. The plant will supply electricity to Uzbek users as well as export energy to Afghanistan.
“The new power station will be a unique project: it is the first power station to be built from scratch in present-day Uzbekistan. Before this, energy problems have been addressed only by renovating Soviet-era power stations,” said Muzaffar Mukhitdinov, an Read more »
For past four and a half months, Kazakh and Russian experts have been testing the KazSat-2 Communications Satellite with so-called 
Marat Bisengaliyev and the Kazakh National Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance on Monday at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater was as thrilling as a horse race in the steppes. The virtuoso violinist-conductor chose pieces that were technically demanding, but he and 21 of the orchestra’s string players galloped expertly through them.
A deterioration in the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis combined with slowing growth in China could generate more serious headwinds for Kazakhstan’s economy, though the country is prepared to deal with any adverse effects, the country’s minister of economic integration affairs said Wednesday.
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BISHKEK – Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev signed a decree December 2 that guarantees Roza Otunbayeva – who stepped down from the presidency a day earlier – an allowance and benefits package, the presidential press-service told Central Asia Online.
