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)
SEPT. 7 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Kazakhstan and Russia agreed a deal to jointly develop the Imashev gas field that straddles their borders. Dispute over ownership had slowed its exploitation down. Russian media said the field holds about 128b cubic metres of gas and 21m tonnes of gas condensate.
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SEPT. 3 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Russia will double the amount of gas it buys from Azerbaijan from next year to 2b cubic metres. Europe and Russia are competing for Azerbaijan’s gas supply. Europe needs the gas to fill its proposed Nabucco pipeline that will run from the Caspian Sea to central Europe.
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SEPT. 4 2010 (The Conway Bulletin) — Turkmenistan announced plans to construct a $1.9b Olympic city to be built by the Turkish company Polimeks Construction. The complex will be located next to Ashgabat and will hold 30 sports facilities including a 60,000 seat soccer stadium.
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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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