Author: Sabira Kadyrov

PA President’s son Tareq Abbas also holds positions in other ventures incorporated by offshore company. Leaked documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca reveal Tareq Abbas, son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, holds shares worth nearly $1 million in an offshore company with ties to the Palestinian Authority. The documents, leaked as part of the massive ‘Panama Papers’ scandal, show that a company called the Arab Palestinian Investment Company (APIC) was registered in September 1994 in the British Virgin Islands. Since then, the company’s economic portfolio has grown substantially, and is active in virtually every Palestinian economic sphere, including…

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Fifty-Sixth Session of the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East, which was held on November 21-24 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The Iranian delegation announced readiness to share their experiences in the fight against drug trafficking with Kyrgyzstan. Regional and international cooperation to reduce the cultivation and production of narcotics and psychoactive drugs; the promotion of alternative development; conducting financial investigations on drug trafficking cases; explaining the role of digital currencies in trafficking and the resulting money laundering; dealing with illegal production of various precursor…

Speaking at the World Climate Summit in Dubai as part of the UN Climate Change Conference, the country’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev supported the UN call for concrete actions aimed at preserving the environment for future generations, and said that his country will contribute to the comprehensive adaptation of “green” technologies in almost every sector of the national economy. The Climate Summit traditionally brings together the heads of state and government of the world and discusses the most pressing climate issues of all humanity. The peculiarity of the current meeting is that Central Asia is represented at it precisely as a…

Minister of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan Dogdurkul Kendirbaeva met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to Kyrgyzstan Ahmet Sadik Dogan and the President of Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) of the country Abdullah Eren, Azernews reports, citing 24.kg News Agency. Dogdurkul Kendirbaeva noted the strengthening of cooperation in the field of education and proposed considering the possibility of organizing two-week training courses in Turkey to improve the qualifications of teachers teaching STEAM subjects. She also raised the issue of translating Turkish books on STEAM subjects into the Kyrgyz language and adapting them for the Kyrgyz Republic. «Representatives of…

Brussels (3/12) Governments may be doing great while the people suffer. Bombing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, carrying cheap Russian natural gas to industry and consumers in Europe, is exerting a cascading effect on companies and employment, eventually to be reflected in rising places and sharpening inflation. Russia is steadily experiencing price increases for a variety of goods and services, Russian media report. Is there obviously not a link to the sanctions placed on Russia and the seizure of Russian funds and savings abroad? Punishment for Russia’s “Special Military Operation” to purportedly protect Russian-speaking citizens in eastern Ukraine from state…

MP Aida Isatbek kyzy initiated amendments to the legislation on medical activities and activities in the sphere of circulation of medicines. The bill has been submitted for public discussion, Azernews reports, citing 24.kg News Agency. In particular, the Criminal Code is amended to toughen the punishment for illegally conducting experiments on humans, which caused significant harm by negligence. At present, it is punishable by a fine from 200,000 to 500,000 calculated rates (20,000-50,000 soms) with deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or community service from 40 to 100 hours. The initiator proposes to increase fines to 3,000-5,000 calculated…

Frankfurt (3/12 – 12) The relatively rapid cohesion of disparate nations, historically competitive or even at war with one another, into the European Union came about in part because of the ongoing threat from the Soviet Union. The specter of a tank invasion from Warsaw Pact nations, today forgotten, was such a reality that the German government kept a major portion of its gold bullion across the Atlantic. The USSR, an ally in World War II after being double-crossed by Hitler – remember the “Non-Aggression Pact signed in Moscow by von Ribbentrop and Molotov – was soon appraised as a…

London (28/11 – 58) Tajikistan’s human rights record continues to deteriorate amid an increased crackdown on freedom of expression and the political opposition, as well as the targeting of independent lawyers, journalists, and family members of opposition activists abroad. Freedom of assembly is severely curtailed with any local protests, such as a series of protests in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region (GBAO), violently quashed. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Programme Office in Dushanbe, the OSCE Transnational Threats Department, and the Permanent Representation of France to the OSCE organized a study visit to Paris for government officials from…

Russia intends to supply 1.2 million tons of fuel to Kyrgyzstan by the end of the year, Trend reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin made this announcement following negotiations with Kyrgyzstan’s President Sadyr Japarov in Bishkek. According to Putin, Russia exported a similar amount of fuel to Kyrgyzstan last year. He emphasized that these supplies are offered under preferential terms, exempt from export customs duties, providing a direct economic benefit to the republic and economic operators. Putin also stressed that one of the most critical sectors of Russian-Kyrgyz cooperation is in the field of energy. Russia serves as the primary provider of petroleum…

Taalaibek Ibraev, the Minister of Energy of Kyrgyzstan, and An Taeho, the President of the South Korean Starkoff Energy Company, signed a memorandum to strengthen cooperation in the energy sector, Trend reports. This occurred following a meeting where Minister Ibraev met with representatives from Starkoff Co. During the meeting, the parties discussed several issues aimed at the development of the energy industry. They discussed the importance of tracking electricity generation from production to delivery to consumers, further development of Kyrgyz-Korean relations, and the utilization and advancement of information technologies in the energy sector. Source : Trend