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  • Moderate Earthquake Hits Uzbekistan

    Seismologists have reported that a moderate earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 has hit southwestern Uzbekistan. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck at 11:08 a.m. (0608 UTC), about 27 kilometers north of Bulung'ur, at a depth of 27 kilometers. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Some information for this report was provided by ...

  • Turkmen capital enters Guinness World Records

    The Turkmen capital of Ashgabat has entered the Guinness World Records for the highest number of white marble buildings in the city. Guinness World Records chief editor Craig Glendale travelled to the former Soviet country to present the certificate Saturday to the mayor of Ashgabat. The certificate names Ashgabat as the "most white-marble city" in the world for its 543 new buildings lined ...

  • Ivan Simonovic On His Visit to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

    DUSHANBE (23 May 2013): My mission to Central Asia covering Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan* and Uzbekistan*, follows the visits of the UN Secretary-General to Central Asia in 2010 and that of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in ...

  • Azerbaijan embassy celebrates national day anniversary

    Abu Dhabi, 26 May 2013 (WAM) - Assistant Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Khalid Al Ghaith attended this evening a reception hosted by Ambassador of Azerbaijan Elkhan Gahraman to celebrate his country's national day anniversary. Also present were a number of officials and diplomats. ...

  • Azerbaijan and Iran in soft-power struggle

    By Eldar Mamedov BAKU - There's a coffee shop in an out-of-the-way part of Baku where the walls are covered with illustrations from an early 20th century satirical magazine called Molla Nasreddin. The magazine represents a bygone era, when Azerbaijan was a font of new cultural trends in the Muslim world, pioneering such issues as female emancipation, anti-clericalism, anti-colonialism ...


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  • Turkmenistan sets record for worlds most marble-clad capital

    The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan has earned another spot in the record books, with its capital recognized as having more white marble on its buildings than any other city in the ...

  • TAP surges ahead of Nabucco-West

    By Vladimir Socor Among the roles of Gazprom's South Stream pipeline project was that of aborting the European Union-backed Nabucco, merely by threatening to preempt Nabucco's markets along the same route downstream. Conversely, Nabucco's European rival Trans-Adriatic Pipeline project (TAP) can abort Nabucco by preempting the gas supply source upstream. Both TAP and the ...

  • Putin takes on Nigeria Navy

    By John Helmer MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin will raise with West African leaders the case of the Myre Seadiver and its 15-man Russian crew, who were arrested and imprisoned on trumped-up charges in Nigeria last October. [1] Putin arrived in Durban, South Africa, on March 26 for a two-day visit. The Myre Seadiver crew have been accused by the Nigerian Navy of arms smuggling, charges ...

  • Dubai Chamber study highlights Kazakhstans potential for investment

    Cooperation between the UAE and Kazakhstan is growing in real estate, energy and financial services, a study recently commissioned by Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...

  • Earthquake measured 6 points occurs in eastern Uzbekistan

    WASHINGTON, May 26 (Itar-Tass) - The earthquake measured six points occurred in eastern Uzbekistan on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey ...

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