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A month ago Turkmenistan’s president conducted another splashy event, calling it military teaching. He demonstrated his ability to shoot with various kinds of imported hand weapons, as well as his knife-throwing skills. Also new expensive «toys» were demonstrated — small-scale helicopters, this time purchased in Italy...
The past year, based on official data was quite a successful one in terms of growth (by 26,7%) of mutual goods-exchange between the participant governments of EAEU. However, we are not yet saying that development of this union is entering a much higher level...
In the second half of november press-secretary of the ministry of foreign affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova made a statement in which she expressed the concern with the increase in activity of the Islamic state organization (forbidden in Russia) in Northern Afghanistan and with the growing threat of terrorism in the regions of the country bordering Central Asia.
On Dec. of 2017 Ashkhabad will celebrate 22nd anniversary of neutrality of Turkmenistan. Politics of “positive neutrality” from Sep. 2016 became an essential part of the content of Turkmenistan’s constitution. And despite what outside observers and multiple critics might say, resolution n50/80 on “Constant neutrality of turkmenistan” passed on Dec. 12 1995, by the UN general assembly is an real foreign policy achievement in the interests of that country.
The October 15 Kyrgyzstan presidential elections ended with the victory of Sooronbay Zheenbekov, the pro-government candidate. Two weeks have already passed since then, however, Almazbek Atambayev is continuing to celebrate his success that has been achieved, among other things, by the masterfully provoked diplomatic scandal with neighboring Kazakhstan. This rather effective politically engineered step has largely determined Sooronbay Zheenbekov’s victory.
Kyrgyzstan presidential elections start on Sunday. The intensity of emotions has reached its peak. We, however, can say with certainty that the bloody events of the past will not be repeated. The fate of the elections will be determined by the votes of the ethnic communities. Moreover, most experts believe that the winner will be established during the first voting tour.
