E-Bulletin
November 2, 2016
The improvement of transportation systems, development of communications, urbanization and growing mobility of population and their social wealth are important factors positively affecting the tourism sector in the world. Under these conditions, we are witnessing the rapid growth of the tourism sector in many countries. According to the United Nations […]
October 26, 2016
The economic development of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), also known as East Turkestan, which is China’s gateway to Eurasia, has significant importance not only for China, but also for the neighboring countries in the region. The XUAR is located on the important route of the Silk Road Economic […]
October 21, 2016
The Paris Agreement on climate change was reached during the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference held in Paris in December 2015. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), temperature rise above the 2 oC limit would have catastrophic and irreversible consequences, such as an increase in natural disasters […]
October 19, 2016
The 7th legislative elections for the State Duma, which is the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, were held on September 18, 2016. According to the results of the Russian Central Election Commission, 47.82% (namely 52,631,849) of 110,061,200 registered voters participated in the elections and the United Russia Party won […]
October 12, 2016
The South China Sea disputes involve both island and maritime claims among several sovereign states within the region, namely Brunei, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. There are disputes about the Paracels and the Spratlys island chains, aswell as maritime boundaries in the Gulf of Tonkin. The South China Sea plays a significant role in the […]
September 28, 2016
Current geopolitical situation in the Caspian region clearly demonstrates the necessity for searching a mutually acceptable solution regarding both establishment of the new legal status and determination of the regime of use of the Caspian Sea. For more than two decades, the littoral countries have been trying to adopt a […]
September 27, 2016
During the last few years, the economy of Kyrgyzstan has grown due to the significant increase in gold exports and trade with the neighbouring countries. Although the economic recession in Russia led to a decline in the demand for Kyrgyz goods, which caused a reduction in non-gold exports of the […]
September 21, 2016
In the early nineties of the XX century the importance of Central Asian region seemed insignificant for Japan. However, when the Prime Minister of Japan in 1997, Ryutaro Hashimoto, put forward the concept of “Silk Road Diplomacy”, this concept caused significant changes in Japan’s policy in Central Asia. The “Central Asia + Japan” Dialogue initiated in 2004 marked […]
September 14, 2016
Russia is an essentially important country for Central Asian migrant workers. Considering the fact that 60% of the remittance to the Central Asian countries is coming from Russia, there is a heavy reliance on the Russian economy by the region countries. In addition, remittance coming from Russia is an essentially […]
September 6, 2016
Due to the globalization, thriving consumer society, and rapid development of the financial intermediation, consumer lending, which includes unsecured loans lent to individuals, has become a fastgrowing area of the banking services over the past ten years in developing countries, such as Kazakhstan. Moreover, as a result of the world […]