Renata believes that girls need to be inspired by other women like them so they will choose to study science-based subjects.

Funds are aimed at facilitating better connectivity in the Central Asia region and beyond as well as promoting international flight safety standards, EBRD said.

SOCAR said that Kazakhstan planned to use BTC for its oil from the North Buzachi onshore oilfield that was developed by Chinese companies CNPC and Sinopec.

The rate on access operations to provide liquidity was set raised to 10.50 percent, and the rate on access operations to withdraw liquidity - to 8.50 percent.

The country's National Bank said that economic growth this year would be in a range of 3.5-3.8 percent.

GDP is projected to grow 3.5 percent, up from a previous forecast of 3.2 percent, annual inflation will be 8.5 percent, up from 6.5 percent,

Production of oil and condensate was 711,600 bpd in August, down from 717,000 bpd a month earlier and below 718,000 bpd produced in October 2018, when members of OPEC+ agreed to reduce oil production gradually.