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Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, gave an interview to TV host Tucker Carlson at a stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where he called those who consider him a friend of Russia "sick," Meduza reported on November 1 "They [the Democrats] love to say that I was a friend of Russia, that I worked for Russia, that I was a Russian spy. asiaplustj.info »
IRNA reported on October 24 that Iran’s Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali has said that the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia will sign comprehensive agreements for long-term cooperation, as well as bilateral agreements that include gas and corridor contracts. asiaplustj.info »
Kazakhstan yesterday voted in a referendum on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet as a way to phase out polluting coal plants. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s grand mufti Saidmukarram Abdulqodirzoda has not been seen in public since an unprecedented stabbing attack last week that witnesses say left him with a knife wound on his forehead. asiaplustj.info »
Discussions on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan have reached the finish line. In less than a month, a referendum will be held in the country, the results of which will determine the strategy for the development of the nuclear industry in the country for the coming decades. asiaplustj.info »
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Mongolia on an official visit. This is his first trip since 2023 to any country that has signed the Rome Statute and recognizes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant for Putin on suspicion of war crimes during the invasion of Ukraine. Putin's plane landed in Ulaanbaatar on Monday evening. asiaplustj.info »
Western media outlets report that a federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the United State. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. asiaplustj.info »
In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, Tajik Minister of Industry and New Technologies, Sherali Kabir, on August 1 announced the commencement of the patent process for the zGAN artificial intelligence algorithm developed by a local Tajik R&D lab. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say police in northwestern Pakistan yesterday registered a case against hundreds of people who attacked a police station and killed a man being questioned there on suspicion of desecrating the Quran. asiaplustj.info »
Media outlets, citing Qatari officials familair with the talks, report that Qatar and Egypt have told HAMAS leaders in recent days that they face possible arrest, freezing of their assets, sanctions and expulsion from their haven in Doha if they don’t agree to a cease-fire with Israel. asiaplustj.info »
Iranian news website Energy Press reports that the judiciary of Tehran province said on April 30 that it had commuted a death sentence handed down against Babak Zanjani. Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told reporters that following an appeal for clemency, Babak Zanjani, 50, was reportedly sentenced instead to 20 years behind bars. asiaplustj.info »
It seems that the Russian authorities are having a hard time accepting that Russia is playing second fiddle to China when it comes to trade in Central Asia. Eurasianet says the reluctance of Russian officials to acknowledge trade reality was on display at trade fair “INNOPROM Central Asia” that took place in Uzbekistan’s capital, Tashkent from April 22 to April 24. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says Tajikistan is trying to project a get-tough-on-terror image following the late March attack on a Krsonogorsk concert venue, in which Tajik nationals are accused of killing over 140 people. asiaplustj.info »
Iranian media reports say Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned today that if the Zionist regime makes the slightest act of aggression on Iran’s soil, it will be dealt with a powerful and fierce blow. asiaplustj.info »
Western media outlets report that the US President Joe Biden and allied officials fear ‘significant’ strike within days in retaliation for Israeli bombing of consular building in Damascus. The BBC reported on April 11 that Mr. asiaplustj.info »
During the period from 2000 to 2023, the country's economic development was annually ensured, on average, at the level of 7. 7 percent, the Minister of Economic Development and Trade Zavqi Zavqizoda stated this on April 8 at a meeting dedicated to an Economist Day. asiaplustj.info »
On Saturday March 9, President Emomali Rahmon met with members of the government, senior representatives of local authorities and religious figures on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
Three children, 4, 3 and 1 years old, were killed in a house fire that broke out in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district in the afternoon of March 2. The Interior Ministry’s official website says the preliminary examination of the scene showed that the fire was caused by electric heating device that was left unattended. asiaplustj.info »
Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, has denied that Iran supplied Russia with ballistic missiles. Ukrainska Prvada reported February 25 that Budanov said in an interview with We Are Ukraine TV channel that none of media reports on ballistic missiles supplied by Iran to Russia is true. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet notes that domestic violence cases are not rare in Tajikistan. Government representatives and international organizations have in the past estimated that one in two women in Tajikistan have at some time experienced domestic violence. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say that the Hamas-run health ministry noted on Friday that the Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 28,775 with 68,552 others wounded, the Hamas-run health ministry said on Friday. asiaplustj.info »
Bayan News reported on February that media outlets have reported that Uzbekistan has handed over the Afghanistan Embassy in Tashkent to the Taliban. Sources reportedly told the media on Saturday that Mawlawi Shahabuddin Delawar’s son, Mawlawi Shahab, the Minister of Mines of the Taliban, has been appointed as the acting head at the Afghanistan Embassy in Tashkent. asiaplustj.info »
The Dushanbe Administration has published a design of the future two-route flyover that will be built on the site of Victory Square on Ayni Avenue. The Dushanbe Administration notes that this project is a part of the of the municipal redevelopment plan for Dushanbe. asiaplustj.info »
The Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) have real power in Afghanistan, even though hotbeds of tensions still remain there, and Russia maintains communication with it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said at his annual news conference devoted to reviewing Russia’s main foreign policy achievements in 2023, TASS reported on January 18. asiaplustj.info »
An article posted on CABAR.asia’s website notes that in Central Asia’s nations, criticism of journalistic materials by journalists has failed to become peculiar to the media community. asiaplustj.info »
St. Petersburg’s outlet Fontnaka reports that St. Petersburg police arrested at least 3,000 migrants on December 31 and January 1. Novaya Gazeta Europe writes that the number was “much higher” and that men, women, and children were detained. asiaplustj.info »
An article posted on CABAR.asia’s website notes that in 2023, the Central Asian landscape was a hotbed of diplomatic activity, with regional leaders convening nearly a dozen times and concluding the year amid a flurry of foreign policy interactions in the “C5+1” format. asiaplustj.info »
CABAR.asia notes that the decision of Tajikistan’s authorities to connect to Chinese telecommunications networks has raised concerns among experts who believe that Chinese restrictions on the Internet will be imported into Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
A report released by the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT) notes that more recently, Central Asia has reemerged as a strategic hub of international trade, providing a critical transit point between east and west, but also increasingly becoming a destination for investment and economic growth. asiaplustj.info »
Speaking at the parliamentary discussions on the implementation of the country's state budget for the first nine months of this year, the deputy head of the Tax Committee, Nozim Melikzoda, noted on November 2 that a number of large companies have failed to fully meet the planned budget revenues over the first nine months of this year. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports said yesterday Kazakhstan has restricted the export of 106 items of goods to the Russian Federation that could be used for military purposes following demands from the West that Kazakhstan and its neighbors abide by sanctions imposed on Moscow over its so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say Jordan's King Abdullah yesterday warned against trying to push Palestinian refugees into Egypt or Jordan, adding that the humanitarian situation must to be dealt with inside Gaza and the West Bank. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet reports that the public in Tajikistan knows all too well that police officers are far from always on their side. But a few recent high-profile incidents reprotedly are serving to deepen that distrust. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say the death toll in Saturday’s earthquakes that leveled multiple villages in western Afghanistan exceeded 2,500. Turkiye’s Anadolu Agency (AA) reports that Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for Kabul police, said on X that according to the officials of the Ministry of Disaster Management, the number of martyrs due to the earthquake in Herat has exceeded 2,500. asiaplustj.info »
TOLOnews notes that the Ministry of Vice and Virtue said on October 2 that nearly 200 jadogar (sorcerers, witches) have been detained across the country. A spokesman for the Ministry of Vice and Virtue said that those who conduct jado (witchcraft; sorcery), will be introduced to the judicial departments. asiaplustj.info »
BBC reports that there are fears that as many as 20,000 people may have died in the flooding that's devastated northern Libya after dams burst during storms. The coastal city of Derna reportedly suffered the worst of the disaster. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet reported on September 8 that early on September 6, the security services in Tajikistan issued a press release containing some apparently alarming news. asiaplustj.info »
In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, Rustam Mirzozoda, the head of Tajikistan’s High Economic Court, stated on August 7 that the Economic Court of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) has granted the request of the GBAO chief prosecutor’s office for the appropriation of a land plot in GBAO’s capital, Khorog, where the University of Central Asia asiaplustj.info »
Senior Representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan gave a news conference on the results of work carried out in the first half of this year on August 1. asiaplustj.info »
During a meeting with reporters, the Minister of Agriculture Qurbon Hakimzoda on July 31 suggested a number of proposals that he believed would contribute to lowering prices for agricultural goods. He, in particular, suggests that the period of benefits granted to poultry and fish breeders as well as beekeepers be extended. asiaplustj.info »
Poland will form an engineer battalion and deploy it in the city of August asiaplustj.info »
The European Commission announced the upcoming 11th package of anti-Russian sanctions, which will be now not against Russia, but against third countries supplying sanctioned goods to the Russian Federation. asiaplustj.info »
CNN reported on March 30 that Goldman Sachs says that up to 300 million full-time jobs around the world could be affected by artificial intelligence (AI). The new wave of AI that has spawned platforms like ChatGPT reportedly could lead to jobs being automated in some way. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s news agency TASS , citing a report posted on Twitter of the General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI), the Afghan national intelligence, security and spy agency under the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, reported on March 27 that the GDI claims that nationals of Tajikistan were involved in a suicide attack in Mazar-e Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh asiaplustj.info »
Since the first disease outbreak news on the global cholera situation was published on December 16, 2022, the global situation has further deteriorated with additional countries reporting cases and outbreaks, says a report released by the Word Health Organization (WHO) on February 11. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet notes that public shaming is an ever-reliable weapon in Tajikistan’s toolkit for silencing expressions of discontent. This treatment is reportedly not only reserved for dissidents; ordinary citizens sharing details of their lives or casually talking about their impressions online must be on their guard too. asiaplustj.info »
Nozirjon Yodgori, the head of the press center of Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s state-run power utility company), told Tajik weekly S. S. S. R in an interview that the power rationing period is gradually declining in the country’s rural areas. asiaplustj.info »
Intensifying Russian pressure on Belarus is degrading Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s maneuver room to avoid making concessions to the Kremlin, says the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). asiaplustj.info »
Some media outlets reported yesterday that according to pro-reform outlet Entekhab , Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said Thursday that Iran’s parliament and judiciary are reviewing the country’s mandatory hijab law. asiaplustj.info »
Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on November 16 that he respects Russia's statement that Russian missiles had not hit Polish territory, adding that he believes Moscow had "nothing to do with it. asiaplustj.info »
