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Calling themselves "stan countries," Central Asian countries are looking to boost their tourism industries. Kazakhstan, which welcomes tourists from Russia, China and India, is eyeing for Western travelers as well.

If you're looking for something different, uncustomary and lesser known countries in your travel plan for a holiday, have a go at Kazakhstan in Central Asia.

A mass blackout has thrown numerous websites on the Russian-speaking internet into chaos, reports The Moscow Times. On Tuesday evening, a DNSSEC failure led to the outage of crucial .ru and .рф domains, leaving users both inside and outside Russia grappling with disruptions to popular platforms.

An analysis undertaken by the Yandex Navigator application has suggested that Turkish vacationers who are leaving the city for the Eid al-Adha holiday ("Festival of the Sacrifice") get on the road either early Aug. 9 or Aug. 10 afternoon to avoid traffic entanglements.

SHARE Foundation said on Tuesday that it has sent letters to 20 companies, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, asking them to appoint a representative in Serbia to whom all questions related to personal data processing can be addressed.

This has been stated by another deputy PM, and minister in charge of transport and construction, Zorana Mihajlovic.

"Once we do discuss it, we will present our stance," she told Prva TV on Wednesday, asked to comment on the goings-on in the National Assembly on Tuesday, when the accusation was made - and what the government's position was.

Jetlir Zuberaj, the head of the Kosovo foreign minister's cabinet, reacted in this way regarding Vucic's statement that during the ceremony of the opening of a new airport in Istanbul, the flag of Kosovo was removed at his request.

In his response to a question posed by Albanian language website koha.net, Zuberaj called Vucic "a criminal slanderer."

"I hear that Car:Go is shutting down, and then that it isn't. All applications are welcome, we have Yandex that's working, but fist they must register based on the Law on Road Transport, instead of illegally transporting passengers," Mihajlovic told Prva TV.

Serbian nationalists opposed to an agreement with Kosovo have launched a call for a referendum on the issue, called "People's Initiative Stand up for Kosovo".

Those behind the initiative want to block any moves towards a legally binding agreement between Serbia and its former province.

Mayor of Kragujevac Radomir Nikolic and Yandex representative Andrej Strelkov on Tuesday announced that Russia's biggest IT company had landed its first contract in Serbia.

The official website of the city of Kragujevac said Yandex will make applications and maps for the local authorities.

Uber on July 13 announced that it was merging in Russia and five other ex-Soviet states with the taxi hailing app of the country's leading internet giant, Yandex.