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Uzbekistan successfully completed its first international IPO on the London Stock Exchange. The National Investment Fund, which holds stakes in 13 different infrastructure companies, sold a 30% stake for $604m.

>> The shares rose, slightly, immediately after the IPO.

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BAKU -- A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced Russian-Armenian leader Ruben Vardanyan to 20 years in prison. >> He was the most high profile of the Armenian leaders captured in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023. The sentence will likely enflame already-strained Russia-Azerbaijan relations.

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BISHKEK -- Kyrgyz Pres. Sadyr Japrov sacks Kamchybek Tashiyev, the powerful head of the GKNB security services. >> This is an unexpected move. The two men had formed an all-powerful duopoly at the top of the Kyrgyz power system since a coup in 2020.

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BISHKEK -- Kyrgyz Pres. Japarov wants to reinstate the death penalty for the rape and murder of women and children. He made the announcement after the body of a 17yo woman was found in a park in a village in north Kyrgyzstan.

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Kazakhstan and the US secure $4.2b railway deal, reportedly one of the biggest in history. >> This shows the West can make moves in Russia/China-dominated ex-Soviet Central Asia through business and industry.

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(Issue 601 of the Central Asia/South Caucasus 8-page weekly includes stories on Kyrgyzstan renaming a city as Manas; US cash to develop the 'Trump Route' in Armenia; Kazakh plans to develop the Baikonur Cosmodrome as a tourist site and much more...)

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Pashinyan, Armenia's PM, has said he wants to take Armenia out of the Kremlin-led Eurasian Economic Union and to join the EU. This humiliation for the Kremlin came a week after a Russian deputy PM was in Yerevan for talks with Pashinyan. >> Expect a Kremlin backlash

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Iran accuses Russia of helping Israel in 12-day war; South Africa says the Kremlin has been luring women to Russia to produce drones

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Kazakhstan's GDP/capita has overtaken Russia's for the first time, according to the IMF.

>> Kazakhstan's GDP/capita is rising. Russia's isn't. A sign of the times.

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Azerbaijani Pres. Aliyev and Armenian PM Pashinyan meet in Dubai in push for lasting peace deal. A land corridor to Nakchivan (an Azerbaijani exclave) from mainland Azerbaijan is top of the agenda.

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Trump imposes 25% tariff on priducts from Kazakhstan.

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Charterhouse, the British independent school, will open a campus in Almaty. Haileybury opened one in Almaty in 2008. >> Kazakhstan has become a favourite destination for British schools and unis looking to earn extra cash. Cardiff uni also has plans to open a Kazakhstan campus.

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Plenty on Russia's relations with Azerbaijan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan in today's Memo, plus news of Israel-Russia meetings on Iran.

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The row between Russia and Azerbaijan is worsening. Azerbaijan has now arrested 8 Russians and accused them of drug running and cybercrimes. Russia has arrested two more high profile Azerbaijani businessmen.

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Azerbaijan has arrested two journalists from the Kremlin-funded Sputnik news agency for spying >> Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan are worsening. This is an important story as Azerbaijan has become a vital cog in the Kremlin's North-South transport route to South Asia

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