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MFA China
April 26, 2018
On April 24, 2018, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov of Tajikistan in Beijing. Wang Yi expressed that China and Tajikistan are good neighbors sharing weal and woe, good friends enjoying sincerity and mutual trust, and good partners with win-winÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 25, 2018
Muhammadrahim Shoev has finally gotten his wish -- the Tajik man has been reunited with his 10-year-old granddaughter, the only member of his son's family of six to have survived their move to Iraq. Maryam Shoeva was among four Tajik children who were returned home on April 25 following aÃâà...
EurasiaNet
April 25, 2018
The former head of a bank in Tajikistan that collapsed under the weight of bad loans has been arrested on suspicion of various illicit financial machinations. Asia-Plus news website cited unnamed sources on April 25 as saying that Jamshed Ziyoyev, ex-chairman of Tojprombank, is being kept at a holdingÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 25, 2018
Summary. The Start Fund anticipation window seeks to mitigate harm and loss for communities at risk of crisis. It does so by enabling and incentivising Start Network members to monitor risk and act on the basis of forecasts. Through the Start Fund anticipation window, Non-Governmental Organisations canÃâà...
EurasiaNet
April 24, 2018
Heavily indebted Tajikistan has reportedly decided to take another run at the bond market by touting $500 million worth of notes. RFE/RL's Tajikistan service, Radio Ozodi, reported on April 23, citing an unnamed official in the Finance Ministry, that Merrill Lynch, the wealth management division of Bank ofÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 23, 2018
Once again, it seems Russia has suggested that Tajikistan take a hard look at the Eurasian Economic Union. Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told reporters in Moscow on April 20 that the Russian side had suggested observer status to their Tajik counterparts during a meeting of theÃâà...
Human Rights Watch
April 13, 2018
(Bishkek) – Two detained Tajik activists face deportation to Tajikistan, where they are at risk of possible torture or ill-treatment, Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee said today. Turkish police detained Suhrob Zafar and Nasimjon Sharipov, senior members of the Tajik oppositionÃâà...
The FINANCIAL
April 13, 2018
The FINANCIAL -- The EBRD and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are providing a US$ 88 million financing package to complete the rehabilitation of the Qairokkum hydro power plant (QHPP) to support Tajikistan improve its electricity supply. The loan will complete an ambitious programme of investmentÃâà...
ValueWalk
April 13, 2018
Asia-Plus newspaper reported on April 11, citing an unnamed official with the State Geology Department, that Xinjiang-based TBEA has received the concession to develop the Upper Kumarg mine in the Sughd region in northern Tajikistan. The company was previously given the concession for the EasternÃâà...
AzerNews
April 12, 2018
Tajikistan's Ministry of Transport has offered the government a draft route plan for the Tajik section of the Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Turkmenistan railway, a project which may turn Afghanistan into a regional hub. The specialists have completed the work on determining the route of the Tajik section of theÃâà...
EurasiaNet
April 12, 2018
Asia-Plus newspaper reported on April 11, citing an unnamed official with the State Geology Department, that Xinjiang-based TBEA has received the concession to develop the Upper Kumarg mine in the Sughd region in northern Tajikistan. The company was previously given the concession for the EasternÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
April 10, 2018
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan's foreign minister says Dushanbe is expecting a Russian delegation to attend an international conference on water resources in Central Asia that his country will host in June. Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojidin Aslov made the comment on April 9 in Moscow, where he met withÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 10, 2018
DUSHANBE -- Authorities in Tajikistan have lodged a formal request for Turkey to extradite two Tajik opposition politicians who were detained in Istanbul on March 19. Tajik Interior Ministry spokesman Umarjon Emomali told RFE/RL on April 10 that Dushanbe is in talks with Ankara on the extradition of theÃâà...
The Interpreter
April 5, 2018
A rare summit held at the strategic crossroads of Russia and China last month signalled a welcome thaw between two regional rivals in Central Asia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, who has been in power since 1992, will likely use this reconciliation with his Uzbek counterpart,Ãâà...
The Diplomat
April 3, 2018
Tajikistan has begun supplying Uzbekistan with electricity, Tajik media reported this week. According to RFE/RL's Tajik Service, locally known as Radio Ozodi, after a nine-year interruption, the energy trade across the Tajik-Uzbek border has resumed. Specifically, Tajikistan has begun supplying UzbekistanÃâà...
The Manila Times
March 23, 2018
A 3-3 deadlock or, worse, a 4-3 result in the visitors' favor, would not exactly be an encouraging baon for the Azkals on Tuesday, March 27, when they battle Tajikistan (124th in the latest FIFA ranking) in a make-or-break clash for a slot in the Tier 1 Asian Cup, the region's premier football tournament.
AzerNews
March 23, 2018
During the entire period of cooperation with Tajikistan, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested 300 million euros in the country, the Tajik Telegraph Agency reported March 22. All funds have been invested in the development of small and medium-sized businesses withinÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
March 23, 2018
BISHKEK (TCA) — Both Kazakhstan and Tajikistan are facing the growing threat posed by former Islamic State militants returning back home from Syria to bring in terrorism and extremism to the Central Asian region. So it is a good time to join efforts in addressing the problem. We are republishing thisÃâà...
AzerNews
March 23, 2018
In 2017, 116,000 trips were made from Russia to Tajikistan, which is an increase of 5 percent compared with the corresponding figure of the previous year, the Russian analytical agency TurStat said. The total number of Russian tourists increased by 25 percent up to 40 million in 2017. Tajikistan rankedÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 23, 2018
During the March 14 Astana summit of the leaders of all five Central Asian states (see EDM, March 20, 21), the minister of religious affairs and civil society of Kazakhstan, Nurlan Yermekbayev, and the chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee of the government of Tajikistan, Davlotzada Sulaimon, signedÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 22, 2018
In Tajikistan, as much as 36 percent of the country's territory is under threat from landslides. In the Kyrgyz Republic, avalanches, which numbered over 330 between 1990 and 2009, pose a serious risk to communities. Such natural hazards, which also include floods and mudslides, are often exacerbated byÃâà...
Trend News Agency
March 22, 2018
During the entire period of cooperation with Tajikistan, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invested 300 million euros in the country, the Tajik Telegraph Agency reported March 22. All funds have been invested in the development of small and medium-sized businesses withinÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
March 22, 2018
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Export Control and Border Security program (EXBS) of the United States Embassy in Dushanbe on March 20 donated a new regional training center for prevention of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear non-proliferation, and export control to the Government of Tajikistan.
Central Banking
March 21, 2018
The National Bank of Tajikistan has cut its headline rate, continuing an easing cycle that began in January, as inflation becomes lower and more stable. The 75 basis point reduction on March 20 brings the rate to 14%, and follows a cut of 1.25 percentage points on January 23. In a statement, the centralÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 21, 2018
U.S. and Tajik officials have opened a new training center in Dushanbe aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. Embassy's charge d'affaires, Kevin Covert, inaugurated the center on March 20 along with the president of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, Farhod Rahimi.
BBC News
March 21, 2018
A book published by the government in Tajikistan is telling women what they should - and should not - be wearing. The "Book of Recommendations" is published by the Ministry of Culture, and is filled with photos of models wearing outfits suitable for "women from seven to seventy", the Asia-Plus newsÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 20, 2018
In Tajikistan, more than 20 percent of children under the age of five are stunted. Stunting and undernutrition in childhood are usually the result of several contributing factors related to environment, food, hygiene, and health. Risks related to malnutrition are most concentrated in rural areas of Tajikistan,Ãâà...
EurasiaNet
March 20, 2018
Nowruz, the festival of the spring equinox, a ritual celebration of renewal, has for many years in Tajikistan and elsewhere in Central Asia presented an much-loved occasion for piling up food, dancing, singing and partying all week long. Vashan, a village of around 1,500 people tucked behind a crop of hillsÃâà...
Open Democracy
March 20, 2018
In Tajikistan, however, the focus has been on some notorious incidents of persecution and detention of researchers. Especially since 2015, the increase in the politicisation of the scientific profession, beyond the usual self-censorship, forced some scholars (myself included) to leave the country.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
Tajikistan's foreign minister says Dushanbe is expecting a Russian delegation to attend an international conference on water resources in Central Asia that it is hosting in June. Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojidin Aslov made the comment on April 9 in Moscow, where he met with Russian Foreign Minister SergeiÃâà...
