Provides the latest RSS feeds for Central Asia News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Kyrgyzstan News.net http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/cat/929bcf2071e81801/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:39 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:39 -0400 30 Vice President Hamid Ansari today left on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan during which the two nations will discuss issues of cooperation in counter-terrorism, Afghanistan and development projects in the region will come up for discussion. Ansari is travelling with a high-level delegation to Tashkent where he will meet Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov. Issues relating to Afghanistan will come ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214662850/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:20:01 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214662850/scat/929bcf2071e81801 This undated image provided by the Idaho State Police shows Fazliddin Kurbanov. Kurbanov, an Uzbekistan national, pleaded not guilty during his first court appearance Friday, May 17, 2013 on U.S. charges that he gave support, cash and other resources to help a recognized terrorist group in his home country plan a terrorist attack there. (AP Photo/Idaho State ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214674311/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:51:47 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214674311/scat/929bcf2071e81801 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 and ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214671436/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:24:51 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214671436/scat/929bcf2071e81801 The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) is appalled by reports that Ministry of Interior officials - as yet unnamed - tortured blogger and activist Rashad Ramazanov (a.k.a. Hagigat Agaadin) during a custodial interrogation. The Azerbaijani authorities should establish an immediate and independent investigation into this barbaric case and hold those responsible for ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214669698/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:50:00 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214669698/scat/929bcf2071e81801 17/05/2013 11:07 CET Russia and Azerbaijan are joining forces to investigate a Eurovision scandal that saw votes for Russia’s entry vanish. Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has described as ';outrageous'; the revelations by Azerbaijan that although its country’s voters had put Dina Garipova’s ballad second, she got ';nul points'; instead of ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214668071/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:13:02 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214668071/scat/929bcf2071e81801 President Almazbek Atambayev has repeatedly pledged to shut down the Manas Transit Center in 2014, dismissing U.S. assumptions that the base would remain in exchange for higher rent. The United States currently pays $60 million annually for the base.Atambayev said the Kyrgyz Cabinet had drafted a bill on the base closure and submitted it to parliament. He said Kyrgyzstan would compensate for the ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665752/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:08 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665752/scat/929bcf2071e81801 BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -; Kyrgyzstan's president has reaffirmed that next year the Central Asian nation will evict the U.S. air base that supports military operations in nearby ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665624/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:25:53 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665624/scat/929bcf2071e81801 BISHKEK, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Quite a lot of steps are to be made to have Kyrgyzstan join the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev said on ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665753/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:18:59 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665753/scat/929bcf2071e81801 USA The Kyrgyz government has penned a bill that would see the closure of the US-leased Manas air base in July next year. The country will lose $60 million for not extending the ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665754/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:08:16 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665754/scat/929bcf2071e81801 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 the ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665755/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:05 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665755/scat/929bcf2071e81801 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 ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665756/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:38:04 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214665756/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214663801/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:05 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214663801/scat/929bcf2071e81801 For the past few days, the whole blogosphere and many of the media are actively discussing the provocative video, spread by Lithuanian online publication 15min.lt. In the video, two men allegedly offer money for the viewers to vote for Azerbaijan at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest and talk in detail about the mechanism of rigging the vote. The other day, the provocative video was discussed ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214662380/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:58:24 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214662380/scat/929bcf2071e81801 MOSCOW, May 21 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and Azerbaijan are negotiating a new oil transit agreement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said during a news conference on Tuesday after a bilateral meeting with Azerbaijan’s foreign minister. "Our respective energy agencies and companies are working on preparing a new intergovernmental agreement which will reflect current ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214662381/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:42:03 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214662381/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Moscow and Baku have reviewed the agenda of Russian-Azerbaijani relations and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict - the biggest problem facing Azerbaijan. The statement came from Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow. "Relations between Azerbaijan and Russia are very positive from the point of view of different areas. On ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214661030/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:45:30 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214661030/scat/929bcf2071e81801 ? ????????????, ?????????????, ????????????, ??????????, ?????????? ????? ?????? ? ????. - ??????????? ????? ???????? ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214661031/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:42:19 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214661031/scat/929bcf2071e81801 China and Tajikistan are ready to add substantial content to their strategic partnership, top Chinese leaders said as they met with Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon on Monday.Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli held separate meetings with Rakhmon in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Monday ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214661010/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:39:03 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214661010/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Armenians are characterized by the tendency to turn everything going on around into the myth. Political scientist Fikrat Sadikhov has told this to 1news.az, commenting on the statement of the chairman of so-called "Assembly of Armenians of Azerbaijan" Grigory Ayvazyan that allegedly "at this time, one million Armenian community is given an historic opportunity with its ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214659764/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:36:34 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214659764/scat/929bcf2071e81801 "Any deterioration in relations between the two countries is out of the question," Lavrov said. In a joint press conference with Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov answered journalists’ questions as to Russia’s suspension of the use of Gabala radar and export of Azerbaijan’s oil via Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline. ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214659765/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 07:36:31 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214659765/scat/929bcf2071e81801 By Vladimir Socor The governments of transit countries in the Nabucco-West project - Austria, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria - have appealed to the European Union's top executive authorities to support the selection of this pipeline route by the Shah Deniz gas producers in Azerbaijan. The producers' consortium intends to select either the Nabucco-West route to Central Europe, or ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214659766/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:54:23 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214659766/scat/929bcf2071e81801 The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) predicts an increase in oil production from the block of Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli (ACG) field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea. President of SOCAR Rovnag Abdullayev told reporters that now daily oil production from ACG is 95,000 tonnes. "With such daily volume, annual oil production at ACG is approaching 33m tonnes," said ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214658716/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:27:53 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214658716/scat/929bcf2071e81801 MOSCOW, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - The dynamics of trade and economic relations between Russia and Azerbaijan is positive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after the negotiations with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov here on ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214658717/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:24:48 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214658717/scat/929bcf2071e81801 HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Australian stocks declined, and Hong Kong equities snapped a three-day winning run on Tuesday, weighed by overnight losses on Wall Street and uncertainty over U.S. monetary ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214657519/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:57:43 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214657519/scat/929bcf2071e81801 LONDON | Tue May 21, 2013 4:27am EDT LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan will each get about $500 million of the new shares being issued by VTB, the Russian bank's chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday. The $500 million allocation is the "kind of ticket we are thinking of" Kostin told Reuters in London. The allocations ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214657768/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:27:10 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214657768/scat/929bcf2071e81801 On 18 May, ambassador Elin Suleymanov and Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva attended 32nd Turkish Day Parade, the greatest cultural event of the Turkish world, that took place in New York. The parade held in downtown New York brought together thousands of people including Turkic-speaking nations living in the U.S. The parade participants watched a concert in Dag Hammarskjold, one of the major ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214655885/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:08:33 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214655885/scat/929bcf2071e81801 The Governor of California Jerry Brown has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijani community in California on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. In his letter sent to the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles, Governor Brown notes that Azerbaijan has a rich history and "the Azerbaijani people in California and throughout ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214655012/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:06:17 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214655012/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Azerbaijan`s Minister of Health Ogtay Shiraliyev has visited Hungary. During the visit, Ogtay Shiraliyev had a number of meetings with Hungarian dignitaries, including Hungarian Minister of Human Resources Zoltan Balog, State Secretary of the Prime Minister`s Office and co-chair of the Hungary-Azerbaijan joint economic commission Peter Szijjarto, to discuss bilateral cooperation in the health ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654931/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:06:09 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654931/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Azerbaijan`s state budget revenues in January-March, 2013, amounted to AZN 34669,4 mln, expenses - AZN 4514,8 mln. According to the State Statistical Committee, compared to last year budget revenues increased by 33.9%, while expenses rose by 58.8 % and made 1.2% of ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654164/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:01:26 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654164/scat/929bcf2071e81801 IFC approves first loan to finance energy efficiency and alternative energy in Azerbaijan. The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has endorsed the first loan to finance into renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE/EE) in Azerbaijan. The IFC informs that on 17 May the Corporation`s Board of Directors endorsed a loan for Bank Respublika OJSC to finance energy efficiency and expand ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654054/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:01:21 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654054/scat/929bcf2071e81801 'Azerbaijan, NATO are enjoying good relations in different fields'. "Azerbaijan and NATO are enjoying good relations in different fields, particularly in the field of security. Azerbaijan is NATO`s partner in transportation of military equipments to Afghanistan. Azerbaijan is also enjoying cooperation with the European Union (EU), with the Eastern Partnership Program to be ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654165/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Tue, 21 May 2013 01:01:18 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214654165/scat/929bcf2071e81801 With the picturesque Bali Island in Indonesia, launching a massive tourism promotion, Sri Lankan tour operators were exploring the hitherto largely unexplored market, with a focus on joint ventures.A Business Seminar entitled "Bali Tourism Prospects Reaching Out To South and Central Asian Market", held at the Grand Kuta Bali Hotel last week, revealed that over 1300 Lankans had visited ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214653155/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:50:35 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214653155/scat/929bcf2071e81801 The dollar turned higher against the yen in Asia on Tuesday as investors waited for testimony by the US central bank chief and a policy meeting of the Japanese central bank. The dollar was changing hands at 102.61 yen in Tokyo morning trade, up from 102.26 yen in New York late Monday. The euro rose to 132.20 yen from 131.76 yen in New York while slipping to $1.2868 from $1.2884. The dollar was ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214653238/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:42:13 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214653238/scat/929bcf2071e81801 The Fed is currently conducting the third round of massive bond purchases known as quantitative easing to help drive down interest rates and spur lending. But recently improving data on the U.S. economy has led to speculation that the Fed might consider scaling back the program or winding it down earlier than ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214653194/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:20:29 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214653194/scat/929bcf2071e81801 THE head of Azerbaijan's state broadcaster has questioned the vote tally in the Eurovision Song Contest where it embarrassingly gave "nul points" to the entry from neighbouring Russia. The broadcaster is claiming votes for Russia were apparently not taken into account. "It is of serious concern and surprise that at the final count of votes from Azerbaijan, Russia was not given any ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214650310/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:00:36 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214650310/scat/929bcf2071e81801 By Fozil Mashrab A legal dispute between the Kyrgyzstan government and Centerra Gold has entered a decisive stage for both sides after the Kyrgyz parliament instructed the government either to renegotiate a 2009 deal with the Canadian mining company or withdraw its mining license, though Kyrgyz Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiev recently ruled out any steps to nationalize the mine. The ... http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214642787/scat/929bcf2071e81801 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:40:19 -0400 http://www.kyrgyzstannews.net/index.php/sid/214642787/scat/929bcf2071e81801