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Kyrgyzstan to supply Russian Defence Ministry with tobacco 

Jump to full article: Hoover's, 2003-03-19

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The Russian Defence Ministry and Agency for State Reserves are willing to buy tobacco from Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyz Prime Minister Nikolay Tanayev has told a government telephone hook-up conference. He said that tobacco would be supplied to a tobacco factory which produced cigarettes for the Russian army.

Nikolay Tanayev has instructed the [Kyrgyz] minister for agriculture, water resources and processing industry, Aleksandr Kostyuk, to specify jointly with governors of southern regions how many tonnes of tobacco Kyrgyzstan can guarantee.

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