OCT. 18 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Yerevan’s main airport, Zvartnots, temporarily suspended flights of the national carrier Armavia over a debt dispute, media reported. Zvartnots has said that Armavia owes it more than $3m and refused to service its flights, leaving them stranded. Zvartnots and Armavia have previously rowed about debt.
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(News report from Issue No. 109, published on Oct. 19 2012)
JULY 11 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Armavia, Armenia’s national airline, cancelled an order to buy a second Sukhoi Superjet 100, media reported. Armavia and Areoflot, the Russian airline, had been the only airlines to operate a Superjet, which is a medium-range passenger plane. In May, a Superjet crashed into a mountain in Indonesia on a display flight.
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(News report from Issue No. 096, published on July 13 2012)
JUNE 15 2012 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kazakh PM Karim Massimov said that Russia would be allowed to continue using the Baikonur launch site in the south of the country to send rockets into space. Kazakhstan had suspended launches from Baikonur because of a row over debris from space rockets littering areas in northern Kazakhstan.
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(News report from Issue No. 093, published on June 22 2012)
DEC. 28 2011 (The Conway Bulletin) – A Kyrgyzstan Airlines plane carrying 86 people crashed on landing at Osh airport. The Soviet-era Tupolev Tu-134 flipped over, injuring 31 people. Nobody was killed. Kyrgyzstan has a poor air safety record. In Aug. 2008, 65 people died when a plane bound for Iran crashed after taking off from Bishkek.
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(News report from Issue No. 71, published on Jan. 5 2012)
DEC. 16 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Tajikistan has rejected a new air traffic
control agreement with Uzbekistan, RFE/RL’s Tajik service reported. The new deal
was supposed to be a permanent replacement for the 16 year old agreement Uzbekistan ripped up this summer. Relations between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have deteriorated throughout the year.
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(News report from Issue No. 20, published on Dec. 20 2010)
OCT. 27 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev signed deals worth over $2b with French President Nikolas Sarkozy in Paris. Aerospace manufacturer EADS will form a joint venture to build helicopters in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan will buy 300 trains from engineering groups Alstom and nuclear energy company KazAtomProm will form a joint venture with Areva.
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(News report from Issue No. 13, published on Nov. 1 2010)
SEPT. 20 (The Bulletin) — Uzbek media reported that on the sidelines of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s trip to the UN General Assembly in New York, a delegation had signed a series of deals with US businesses worth $2.6b. It said that the deals covered a range of potential investments and included companies such as Boeing and Visa. Uzbekistan has said it wants more foreign investment.
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— This story was first published in issue 344 of The Conway Bulletin, now called the Central Asia & South Caucasus Bulletin, on Sept. 24 2017.
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