events of the past week, the president of turkmenistan paid an official visit to the frame, where serdardy mukhamedov held talks with the emir and the heads of the largest trading companies and discussed the prospects for supplies of turkmen goods to the qatari market, primarily textile medicines. and tea, also raised issues of wider interactions in the agricultural , town-planning and energy industries. the leadership of the tashkent city administration has changed and shavkat murzakov has been appointed to hakim, who in recent years headed the auto industry. before that, he worked in the anti-corruption department of the prosecutor general's office of the previous hakim in the capital, jahangir and khodzhaev were fired this winter after the energy crisis. the us department of defense as it became known , it intends to repair a biological laboratory in the cis countries, including kazakhstan, the pentagon plans to spend an unnamed amount on upgrading equipment, purchasing some consumables and training staff, all under the guise of reducing the biological threat. this festive week, the c