Kazakhstan, which previously allowed the import of Russian grain only for flour mills and poultry farmers, now wants to impose a complete ban on the import of Russian grain for 6 months. The issue of introducing an export duty on Kazakh wheat is also being considered. This may negatively affect the competitiveness of Kazakh wheat in traditional foreign markets.

A passenger train traveling from Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, to Adler collided with a KAMAZ truck in the Volgograd region of Russia. The accident was caused by the truck stopping on the train track. At least 140 people were injured in the incident.

Representatives of the Turkish and Syrian secret services have held talks three times in the past month to normalize bilateral relations and organize the first meeting between Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar Assad since 2011. "Things are progressing fast, both the leads will be seen together by the end of August at the latest," the report said.

Kazakhstan is the third country in the CIS after Armenia and Azerbaijan to set the minimum wage based on the international convention.

The election of deputies of the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis and local councils will be held on October 27, 2024. The Central Election Commission announced that the election campaign will begin on July 26, 2024.

Banks in Central Asia are refusing Russian companies. The number of cases of Central Asian banks refusing to make payments to Russian companies has increased by 30 percent. Also, payment terms with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have been extended by two weeks. The problems began in June after US sanctions were imposed on the Moscow stock exchange and other Russian companies.

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev went on a short vacation from July 26.

On July 24, Yevgeny Serebryakov, who planted an explosive device on the car of a colonel of the Russian Ministry of Defense in Moscow, was arrested in Turkey. Serebryakov, who was brought to Moscow on Friday night, said that he was promised Ukrainian citizenship and a reward of up to 20,000 dollars by the Ukrainian special service for carrying out this assassination.

Today, at the time when Islamophobes in the society started anti-hijab movements, the "finding" of a man hiding in the clothes of an innocent Uzbek girl is a particularly important case. Whether the scenario of banning the hijab because of the hijab of one cursed* man is played out, or whether the man will be removed from this cursed job and the women will be allowed to wear women's clothes.

A man who wrote a comment on a Telegram channel post about the ambassador of Israel who is ending his diplomatic mission in Uzbekistan was summoned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He "disobeyed the legal requirements of the employees and cursed" near the office building. For this, the man was imprisoned for 10 days.