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LISBON. KAZINFORM On the second day of his visit to Lisbon, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi met with Augusto Santos Silva, President of the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic, and also held a roundtable with members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group «Portugal-Kazakhstan», Kazinform learned from the press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The prospects for expanding inter-parliamentary cooperation were discussed in detail with the head of the legislature. Tileuberdi briefed his interlocutor on the large-scale political and socio-economic reforms initiated by the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and…

Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has reportedly recruited tens of thousands of prisoners to fight in Ukraine. But the growing number of casualties and extrajudicial executions make it much harder to find volunteers, even in prisons. Many convicts are now worried that they can be simply forced to go to war – and migrant workers from Central Asian countries find themselves particularly vulnerable. Anuar came to Russia in search of work in 2018. He was later imprisoned for drug trafficking and sent to serve his term at Penal Colony Number Six in Vladimir region. The BBC is not disclosing his real…

AHMEDABAD: Upon the Gujarat high court’s query on a Tajik woman’s petition for visa extension, the central government on Tuesday informed the court that the woman’s husband was not ready to give consent for his foreigner wife’s visa extension but has agreed to sign documents to facilitate their daughter’s visa extension. In January, the high court asked the central government to file its reply on a petition filed by the 35-year-old woman from Tajikistan and her two children after the woman’s Indian husband refused to vouch for them before the immigration authorities. Appearing for the immigration authority, advocate Kshitij Amin…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has renewed calls on Kyiv’s Western allies to maintain speedy delivery of weapons and other supplies to Ukraine, saying Russia should not be allowed to buy time for it aggression, as Ukrainian forces battled numerous attacks along the whole front line in the east. “We need to hurry up. We need speed — speed of our agreements, speed of our delivery…speed of decisions to limit Russian potential,” Zelenskiy told the Munich Security Conference by video link on February 17. Zelenskiy said that while Western countries were haggling over tank deliveries to Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin was…

The US has secured access to four additional military bases in the Philippines – a key bit of real estate which would offer a front seat to monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan. With the deal, Washington has stitched the gap in the arc of US alliances stretching from South Korea and Japan in the north to Australia in the south. The missing link had been the Philippines, which borders two of the biggest potential flashpoints – Taiwan and the South China Sea. The deal, which in part reverses the US’ departure from their former…

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 10. Trend News Agency presents an overview of the most important events in 2022 in the transport sector of Tajikistan. In this year, Tajikistan continued taking steps to integrate modern technologies into the development of its transport system. For instance, in August of this year, the Minister of Transport of Tajikistan Azim Ibrohim chaired a conference called “Accelerate digitalization to improve transit and simplify the business process.” Representatives from 32 countries and 30 international organizations took part in the conference. The digitalization of the transport process has become one of the key topics for discussion. Modernization of…

New York, Brussels, Astana (18/1 – 60). After facing the most challenging year in 2022, Kazakhstan continues its political modernization. Under the second term of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev who has been reelected in November, Central Asia’s richest country will enjoy more democracy in 2023. This year will be the moment for President Tokayev to prove his vows to step up changes for the ’New Kazakhstan’. End of the Oligarch As the world witnessed, in January 2022, Kazakhstan was ripped apart by the nationwide protest that led to the most violent unrest in the country’s modern history. 238 people dead and…

The USA has included Pakistan in the list of states of “particular concern” over religious freedoms. While in the USA, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari categorically rejected the list. The list for 2022 has Burma, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. Strangely neither India nor Israel is on the list although global human rights bodies are criticizing both countries for gross religious violations against Muslims. A “Country of Particular Concern” is a designated under the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) by the Secretary of State of a nation engaged in severe violations…