Ukraine on October 29, imported record-breaking 43.858 million cubic meters of natural gas from Slovakia, according to data from the public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz. The previous highest figure for imports from Slovakia in the 26-month history of gas imports from this country was recorded in October: daily imports exceeded 42 million cubic meters in the…
Construction of the Atamyrat-Imamnazar (Turkmenistan) – Akina (Afghanistan) section of the Asian International Railway Transport Corridor (Phase 1) has been completed, the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan said in a message on October 31. Construction of the Turkmen-Afghan railway started on June 5, 2013. The total length of the transnational highway is 88 kilometers, 85 kilometers…
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov discussed the prospects of further expansion of partnership with Erol Tabanca, the head of Turkish Polimeks company, and Ahmet Calik, the head of Calik Holding, in Ashgabat. In particular, the issue of constructing the facilities of the Olympic Village by Polimeks in Ashgabat was discussed. The fifth Asian Indoor and Martial…
The work on construction of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) in Albania continues successfully. Twenty-two kilometers of pipes have already been strung along TAP’s route in Albania and welding of around 14 pipes has been completed there, Albania’s Minister of Energy and Industry Damian Gjiknuri tweeted. The TAP project envisages transportation of gas from the Stage…
Ex-Soviet republic Tajikistan marked the start of construction of a controversial $4 billion Rogun hydroelectric dam conceived in the Soviet era, the presidential press service said. The high-profile ceremony was held in Rogun some 100 km from the capital of Dushanbe and saw President Emomali Rakhmon spend an hour-and-a-half behind the wheel of a bulldozer…
Kyrgyzstan postponed the sixth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States to be held in Bishkek, said the message posted on the website of the country’s Foreign Ministry. “The sixth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States, which was earlier scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016 in Bishkek, was postponed…
On October 11-21, lowering of air temperatures and night frosts (-4-6 degrees C) were observed in the South and South-East of Kazakhstan, accompanied by excessive precipitations. Such meteorological conditions delayed fields’ preparation and winter wheat sowing in the Southern fields. At the early winter wheat sowings in Almaty and Zhambyl regions the phase of germination…