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The 3 facts not to be missed
Agricultural land in Kazakhstan can no longer be rented or purchased by foreigners. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has officially signed the decree implementing a law, which endorses a debate dating from 2016 marked by sinophobia.
Fully funded Total Eren solar power plant in Uzbekistan. On May 10, the French company’s construction project for a large-scale solar power plant received financial assistance of more than 85 million euros from three international organizations, including the European Investment Bank.
Kazakh products on display in Paris. An exhibition of Kazakh products was held on May 6 in Paris. Several French companies took part and showed their interest in the various foodstuffs of Kazakhstan.
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Has the UN definitively endorsed the disappearance of the Aral Sea?
On May 19, Uzbekistan passed a resolution during the United Nations General Assembly on the Aral Sea. According to the text, the area surrounding what remains of the sea will become an “area of environmental innovations and technologies”. At the same time, the states bordering the sea no longer mention their efforts to save it.
Symbol of excessive irrigation, is the Aral Sea permanently lost? Novastan tries to take stock.
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… in the rest of the news
Can relations between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan improve? During a webinar, several French specialists returned to the recent clashes between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Different conjectures have been expressed on the forms that the relations between the two States could take, while in parallel negotiations are continuing. Novastan followed the event.
Horse Domestication, Agropastoralism and Mass Extinction: A Summary of Research in Central Asia. In our monthly summary of research produced in Central Asia, you can learn more about horses, sheep and Covid-19.
Filming the seals of the Caspian Sea: meeting with Asel Baïmoukanova. A cameraman and environmental specialist, this young Kazakhe must stand still for hours on the shores, cure colds with vodka and pepper, survive a storm in a canoe and film the only marine mammal in Kazakhstan.
Bukhara’s Choukhov Tower, a prelude to foreign investment in Uzbekistan? The tower fell into disuse until it was renovated in 2018 by a couple of French investors. Following this success, the Uzbek government now wishes to massify foreign investment in tourism and the renovation of heritage.
How does a woman from Tajikistan survive after being a slave in Saudi Arabia? Nourbibi Manssourova, a mother of 24 children, 15 of whom survived, was trapped by a company promising her work and was sent to Saudi Arabia to work there and was trapped as a slave for 14 months. She tells about her ordeal.
Turkmenistan is bracing for a drought more severe than that of 2018. This shortage is also likely to affect neighboring countries, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, due to the region’s entire dependence on water volumes in its main rivers, the Amu-Darya and the Syr-Daria.
When only a cat understands your poems: meeting the Uzbek poet Davron Rajab. Interviewed by Fergana News, the author who fits into the Uzbek poetic tradition speaks in particular of the Sufi vision of friendship, of his cat and of the kourash, the traditional Uzbek wrestling.
Interview with Tigran Mkrtytchev, the new director of the Igor Savitsky museum. Tigran Mkrtytchev talks about Tashkent in the 1970s, the rumors that ran about the sale of the museum’s collections and the prospects for its development.
Inside the Otrar hotel in Almaty. Association of a studied architectural quality and resistance to the tests related to the Soviet and Russian historical transitions, the Otrar hotel exhibits some treasures to be discovered.
The air we breathe in Kazakhstan. The air quality in the city of Almaty in southern Kazakhstan is deteriorating year by year. The geographical location at the foot of the mountains, but also the presence of thermal power stations nearby make this city one of the most polluted in the country.
Water needs: the Talas river and its inhabitants. Talas is a border river which rises in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan to end its route in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The drop in the water level due to the gradual warming of the temperature is a source of concern for the inhabitants.
In Bishkek, activists want to revive the planetarium. In the center of the Kyrgyz capital, an empty planetarium has become the place of expression of protesters from civil society claiming the right to culture, science and living together.
When a French ski world champion discovers Kyrgyzstan. Aurélien Ducroz, double freeride ski world champion who left to explore the Kyrgyz mountains, comes back amazed and impatient to be able to return.
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