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September 8, 2017 www.intellinews.com
Uzbekistan lifts currency controls driving hopes
of investment
renaissance
Kanat Shaku in Almaty
The winds of change are blowing in Central Asia. The removal of currency controls in Uzbekistan on September 5, abolishing the country’s dual exchange rate, marks a historic event both for the country and for the region. No less importantly, the move confirms Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has seriously reformist goals, as it brings to life
Crisis over Ukraine gas monopoly snowballs
Sergei Kuznetsov in Kyiv
The management crisis at state-owned gas monopoly Naftogaz took a new turn after Charles Proctor, an independent member of the supervisory board, said he will resign from his post in late September, citing the lack of government support required to deliver corporate governance reform, the company said in a statement on September 5.
Uzbekistan frees its currency.
one of his first major promises since he came to power a year ago after the end of the quarter-cen- tury reign of the late autocrat Islam Karimov.
The dual rate exchange system converged at
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Proctor is the second supervisory board member to resign in the last six months, following the resignation of the head of Naftogaz’s supervisory board Yulia Kovaliv, who represented the state
of Ukraine.
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