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By the end of 2024, Russia remains Tajikistan's major trading partner. A two-way trade between the countries has increased by almost 20%, reaching US$1.79 billion. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s privately-owned air carrier, Somon Air, has suspended flights from Dushanbe to Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Flights to Moscow now operate only to Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports. Tajikistan’s Civil Aviation Agency did not disclose reasons for the change, suggesting inquiries be submitted in writing. asiaplustj.info »
Citing Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Semyon Grigoryev, TASS reported on November 23 that Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Tajikistan's leader, Emomali Rahmon, to participate in events on May 9, 2025, on Red Square in honor of the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. asiaplustj.info »
The Public Council at the Embassy of Tajikistan in Moscow has announced the launch of a new service to provide legal assistance to Tajik citizens working, studying, and residing in Russia. asiaplustj.info »
Starting December 1, Moscow airports and the Mashatkov automotive border crossing point in Russia’s Orenburg Region will implement a pilot program requiring photo and fingerprint identification for foreign nationals entering the country. asiaplustj.info »
In 2025, the cost of a work permit for foreign workers in Moscow will rise to 8,900 rubles, an increase of nearly 1,500 rubles from the current rate, Fergana News reports , citing Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. asiaplustj.info »
Starting in 2025, Moscow will issue electronic identification cards for foreign nationals, allowing authorities to verify up-to-date information on each individual, TASS reported on October 25, citing Moscow Mayor, Sergey Sobyanin. asiaplustj.info »
A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin ended in Moscow on October 8 with signing of a package of documents, including an appeal of the CIS Heads of State to the CIS peoples and the international community on the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon is visiting Moscow on October 7-8 to participate in the next meeting of CIS Council of Heads of State, Russia’s RIA Novosti reports citing the Russian Foreign Ministry. asiaplustj.info »
Moscow has extended the investigation period for the case concerning the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall until December 22, 2024. Citing court materials being at its disposal, RIA Novosti says the main suspects in the case are citizens of Tajikistan. No further details have been provided. asiaplustj.info »
Shamsiddin Shanbiyev, a native of Tajikistan, once played not only in Moscow “Spartak”, but also in a number of other teams, and now he is passing on his experience to the younger generation of football players. asiaplustj.info »
Russian media reports say the Kremlin said yesterday that Russia is open to negotiations with Ukraine on ending the conflict while Vladimir Zelenskiy in power despite publicly doubting his legitimacy to rule. asiaplustj.info »
RBC reports that over the first six months of this year, Moscow courts have handed down around 27,000 rulings on administrative penalties under three main migration-related articles of the Code of Administrative Offences (CoAF). asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reported on July 13 that the 60-year-old ethnic Tajik, who was once known for criticizing the Tajik government, has been left stateless and stranded in Tajikistan after Moscow revoked his Russian citizenship and extradited him to Dushanbe last year. asiaplustj.info »
Dozens of Tajik migrant workers returned to Tajikistan on July 8 after Russian authorities refused them entry to the country five days earlier amid a wave of anti-Tajik sentiment, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service, known locally as Radio Ozodi, reported on July 8. asiaplustj.info »
Media outlets report that Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 4 that the Taliban, a banned group in Russia, are Moscow's "allies" in fighting terrorism because they are in control of Afghanistan. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s Investigative Committee says a 20-year-old Tajik migrant, who extinguished candles in an Orthodox church in Moscow will not be punished, but he will be sent for compulsory treatment as he was found mentally insane. asiaplustj.info »
A Moscow court on June 19 ordered Tajik national Karim Normatov to be held in pretrial detention for two months over a mass food poisoning in the Russian capital. Normatov is a cook for the Savon-K food-delivery company, Radio Liberty’s Russian Service reported on June 20. asiaplustj.info »
The Zyuzinsky District Court of Moscow has placed a 20-year-old Tajik citizen under arrest for two months for extinguishing candles in an Orthodox church. The Telegram channel of the Courts of General Jurisdiction of Moscow reports that Askar Butayev will remain in a pre-trial detention center at least until August 18, 2024, while the investigation is ongoing. asiaplustj.info »
The Russian ruble has lost nearly 5. 0 percent of its value against the Tajik national currency, the somoni, in one day. An official exchange rate of the somoni (TJS) against the Russian ruble (RR) set by the National bank of Tajikistan rose 4. asiaplustj.info »
The State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) has passed a bill in its first reading that grants police the authority to make decisions on administrative expulsion of foreign citizens and stateless persons from Russia. asiaplustj.info »
More than 30 Tajik nationals have been stranded at Moscow's Vnukovo airport since last week amid tightened passport controls almost three months after a deadly terror attack near Moscow, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on June 17. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s main exchange, the Moscow Exchange, said it’s halting trading in US dollars and the euro due to new U.S. sanctions From June 13, the Moscow Exchange will not carry out trading on foreign currency, precious metals, stock, money and futures markets in instruments with settlement in dollars and euros. asiaplustj.info »
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention of four Tajik nationals suspected of committing a deadly terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in March that left more than 140 people dead. asiaplustj.info »
During the period from April 26 to April 30, out of 3101 Tajik nationals arriving at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, 643 were deported after having been left stranded without appropriate conditions, an official source within the Tajik Foreign Ministry told Asia-Plus in an interview. asiaplustj.info »
An article by a freelance journalist Chris Rickleton says that even in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, it doesn't take long to realize how much the country and its roughly 10 million people rely on labor migration to Russia. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, said on April 12 that has prevented an attack on a synagogue in Moscow. asiaplustj.info »
Four defendants in Moscow-area concert hall terror attack case have filed an appeal against their arrest in the Moscow city court. Tass reports that Isroil Islomov and his sons Aminjon and Dilovar as well as Kyrgyz national Alisher Kasimov have appeal a ruling by Moscow’s Basmanny district court on their arrest in the Moscow city court. asiaplustj.info »
Ostorozhno Novosti Telegram-channel and Gazeta.ru , citing a document of the Moscow Department for Ethnic Policy and Inter-Regional Ties, report that the Moscow authorities have advised Muslims to offer Eid al-Fits prayer at home. asiaplustj.info »
One more Tajik national has been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of being involved in the deadly concert hall attack, in which at least 144 people were killed. asiaplustj.info »
The day after the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue outside Moscow, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that 11 suspects had been arrested. A short while later, videos of the suspects being tortured began to appear on pro-government Telegram channels. asiaplustj.info »
Presided over by Tajikistan, a joint meeting of concerned ministries and agencies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member nations took place in Moscow on February 27 – March 1. The CSTO press center says one of the topics of the meeting was a draft target program to strengthen Tajikistan’s common border with Afghanistan. asiaplustj.info »
As part of his official visit to Russia, President Emomali Rahmon yesterday also met with the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mishustin. According to the Tajik president’s official website, the parties discussed state and prospects of further expansion of trade and economic cooperation between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation. asiaplustj.info »
As part of his official visit to the Russian Federation, President Emomali Rahmon held talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin yesterday. The Tajik president’s official website says the parties discussed a wide range of issues related to bilateral cooperation between their countries in a narrow format. asiaplustj.info »
President Emomali Rahmon today morning left for Moscow on a two-day official visit, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
In Kotelniki, a town in the Moscow oblast, OMON (riot police) officers raided a mosque and took the worshippers to a military enlistment office, where they were forced to sign a contract with the Defense Ministry under threat of criminal charges, Meduza reported on October 22, citing Mamut Useinov, a finalist in a Russian singing competition television show. asiaplustj.info »
The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has arrested a national of Tajikistan for two months on the basis of request of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Telegram-channel of the capital courts of general jurisdiction reports . asiaplustj.info »
The fifth meeting of the Moscow format on consultations on Afghanistan that took place in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic, on September 29 brought together special representatives and senior officials from China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. asiaplustj.info »
A killer of a 5-year-old Tajik girl Huvaido Tillozoda in Moscow oblast has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The Court of Cassation has reviewed the verdict rendered by the Moscow Regional Court and sentenced Alexander Syomin to life imprisonment, Huvaido’s father Abdusalom Saidov told Asia-Plus by phone. The new verdict was reported rendered on September 13. asiaplustj.info »
Last week, the leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, Ahmad Masood, together with the former Vice President of Afghanistan, Amrullo Saleh, visited Moscow with an official delegation. asiaplustj.info »
In Naro-Fominsk in the south-west of the Moscow region, police officers seized about 270 kg of drugs from a foreigner, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said, writes RBC. RIA Novosti, with reference to the agency, writes that presumably it is heroin. asiaplustj.info »
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, Ramazon Rahimzoda, went to Russia with two main goals: to discuss the situation with Tajik migrant workers and the issue of the detention of Dilshod Saidmurodov, the main suspect in the abduction and murder of Shukhrat Ismatulloev, Deputy Chairman of OJSC “Orienbank”. asiaplustj.info »
T wo migrants from Tajikistan were killed in a mass brawl in the Russian city of Chekhov in the Moscow oblast on the night of August 1. Russian media quoted law enforcement as saying that two people were stabbed in the brawl that took place in Chekhov near Moscow on the night of August 1 and died on the spot. asiaplustj.info »
Customs officers have seized more than 60 pieces of precious stones (diamonds) at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport, according to Russia’s Federal Customs Service. An inspection of passengers on the flight from the United Arab Emirates to Moscow (UAE) to Moscow found 13 different boxes of "Apple", "Samsung" and "Sony" products in bags of Uzbek national. asiaplustj.info »
The deputy head of the Moscow Multifunctional Migration Center (MMC), Oleg Nuzhdin have visited Bokhtar, the capital of the Tajik southern province of Khatlon, recently. He has reportedly met with Khatlon deputy governor Akram Sulaimonzoda to discuss cooperation issues. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say dozens of Tajik labor migrants have been detained in Moscow again. This time, more than 150 Tajik labor migrants were reportedly taken to police station in Moscow’s Mitino district on the morning of May 30. asiaplustj.info »
Russian media reports say a drone carrying 17 kilograms of explosives has crashed near the city of Noginsk in Moscow oblast. TASS news agency reported on April 24 that the drone was discovered by a woman living in the SNT (garden association) Zarya Sunday afternoon. asiaplustj.info »
About half a million Muslims will celebrate Eid ul-Fitr in Mosco and Moscow oblast on April 21, Islam-today says . Not less than 150,000 worshippers will gather at the Moscow Cathedral Mosque alone. asiaplustj.info »
A killer of a 5-year-old Tajik girl Huvaido Tillozoda in Moscow oblast has got a lengthy jail term. The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Alexander Syomin to 24 years in prison on March 15, Huvaido’s father Abdusalom Saidov told Asia-Plus by phone. asiaplustj.info »
Moscow has hosted the fifth round of consultations of the Secretaries of the Security Councils on Afghanistan without participation of the Taliban representative, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press news agency reported on February 8. asiaplustj.info »
