ASTANA – Radmir Khaibullin, an 11-year-old accordionist, took the Trophée Mondial de l’Accordéon, securing first place in the Classique category of 12 and under.

Trophée Mondial de l’Accordéon is a prestigious event for accordion players globally with a history of over 70 years. Since 2020, the competition has been held online, which was quite challenging for the young player.

Khaibullin presented a video performance featuring works “Fugue in D major” by Johann Sebastian Bach, “Love Song” by Mark Fradkin, and “Fast Train” by Yuri Gavrilov. With this set, he triumphed at the French contest, bringing the first international open trophée to Kazakhstan.

Khaibullin is a fifth-grade boarding school student for gifted children at the Kazakh National University of Arts. He was just five years old when he first took the accordion.

Khaibullin is preparing for the upcoming national competition Astana Merey and an international competition in Barnaul, where he will represent Kazakhstan with Ruslan Turayev, his teacher and accomplished laureate of international music competitions, in December.

Source: Astana Times

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The Swiss Cooperation Office in Tajikistan, within the framework of its “Art and Culture of Central Asia” program, announces a competition for two types of grants.

Institutional Support Grants support the institutional development and core activities of competent arts and cultural institutions that provide open spaces where creative individuals can create works of art that reflect social issues and the diversity of cultural expressions, opinions and voices.

Project support grants are provided to government and non-government cultural organizations, individual artists, and initiative groups to implement short-term projects in various fields of art and culture that expand public access to works of art that reflect socio-economic realities.

One applicant may submit only one proposal; recipients of project or institutional support are excluded from other types of grants.

The application deadline for the national competition is November 3, 5:00 p.m.

More detailed information about the conditions and application procedure is here.

Source: Asia Plus TJ

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Kazakhstan is set to foster competition in the aviation market and eliminate unreasonable price increases for air tickets by providing air carriers with full access to the open skies regime.

Also, as a solution to the issue, the country’s authorities propose to remove the concept of fuel surcharge from the legislation and, in general, to regulate the system of dynamic pricing.

The issues of promoting competition in the areas of transport, communications, as well as the fuel and energy complex were discussed at the Government’s meeting. The agenda also included measures to automate all processes in the field of wholesale sales of petroleum products, ensure the transparency of the activities of the Single Electricity Purchaser, develop private railway transportation and automate the planning and management of the transportation process.

Source: Jibek Joly

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