SEPT. 27 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakhstan banned the export of buckwheat, a favourite cereal in the former Soviet Union, because of shortages caused by a summer drought. It also said the drought had hit its grain harvest which would only be 13.5m tonnes this year, the bottom end of previous forecasts.
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(News report from Issue No. 9, published on Sept. 30 2010)
SEPT. 14 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Fire fighters in Kazakhstan extinguished forest fires which had threatened to spread to Russia. The fires in northern Kazakhstan had been burning for a week.
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(News report from Issue No. 7, published on Sept. 16 2010)
SEPT. 9 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Dry and windy weather fanned forest fires in the Pavlodar region of northern Kazakhstan. The fires killed at least 6 people and spread to Siberia in Russia. Rain is forecast. Russia has fought a series of forest fires this summer which have severely damaged its grain harvest.
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(News report from Issue No. 6, published on Sept. 9 2010)