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Al Jazeera reported today that Iran has continued to strike US assets across the Gulf after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and up to 40 top Iranian officials. The attacks have reportedly killed one person in Bahrain, with Iraq and Kuwait reporting more Iranian raids. asiaplustj.info »
Abdumutalib Ayubov, a native of Tajikistan, was killed in combat just one week after being conscripted into Russia’s war against Ukraine. According to local sources, Ayubov, who had lived in Russia for several years and was previously sentenced after being involved in a fatal car accident, was recruited to fight for Russia shortly before his death. He was 27 years old. asiaplustj.info »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has acknowledged that the war with Russia may be nearing a potential conclusion but stressed that this does not guarantee an actual end to the conflict, according to Ctrana. asiaplustj.info »
U. S. President Donald Trump said a swift resolution to the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine remains unlikely, during a joint press briefing with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. asiaplustj.info »
Once seen as a pathway to better jobs and legal security, Russian citizenship is no longer in high demand among Tajik labor migrants. Growing fears of forced military conscription and worsening treatment by Russian authorities have led many to abandon plans to obtain Russian passports. asiaplustj.info »
Newsweek reported yesterday that small demonstrations have taken place in multiple cities across the United States over the past few days urging the Trump administration not to join Israel in military action against Iran. asiaplustj.info »
Three years of war in Ukraine have changed the lives of millions, including those who once chose this country as their home. Among them are people originally from Tajikistan, such as Inom Kadyrov, a Tajik by origin who has lived in Poltava for almost 40 years. asiaplustj.info »
On April 24, the Academy of Public Administration of Tajikistan hosted the international conference entitled "80 Years of the Great Victory. We Remember. We Honor. We Are Proud. asiaplustj.info »
As of April 18, 2025, only 17 participants of the Great Patriotic War remain in Tajikistan, according to the Republican Council of War and Labor Veterans, according to the Council, last year there were 24 veterans. asiaplustj.info »
The Taliban movement, a terrorist organization banned in Russia, will soon become a permitted organization: the Prosecutor-General has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court, asking to suspend the ban on the activities of the Islamist movement and few doubt that the verdict will be favorable. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say U.S. President Donald Trump is stepping up his massive global trade war, a move that’s certain to weigh on Americans’ wallets and could push the U.S. economy into a painful recession. asiaplustj.info »
On Monday February 24, the UN Security Council approved a U.S.-proposed resolution, reflecting Washington’s shift in stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine. The BBC’s Russian Service reports that the brief text does not condemn Russian aggression but merely calls for peace. asiaplustj.info »
In Uzbekistan, for Victory Day, which is observed in the country as Day of Remembrance and Honor, each participant and disabled veteran of World War II will receive US$10,000. The corresponding decree from President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was published on the president’s official website , Fergana news agency reports . asiaplustj.info »
Ukraine plans to hold a meeting of a contact group this month to formulate a common position on the diplomatic resolution of the Russia-Ukraine war, according to Ukrainian President's spokesperson Serhiy Nykyforov, RBC-Ukraine reports . asiaplustj.info »
Current Time says natives of Central Asian countries and other foreigners serving their jail terms in Russian prisons and penal colonies continue to report being forced en masse to sign contracts and go to war with Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Europe must be prepared for a decade of Ukrainian war, the outgoing Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg has warned. Speaking to the BBC , he said the “paradox” of the war in Ukraine is the longer the western military alliance commits to fighting the war, the faster a resolution will be reached. asiaplustj.info »
The 53-year-old Tajik-American businessman Salimdzon Nasriddinov, a Tajik citizen holding a dual citizenship with Russia, who has lived in the United States for many years, and the 38-year-old Nikolay Goltsev of Montreal, who holds citizenship of Russia and Canada, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit export control violations for their roles in a global procurement scheme on behalf of asiaplustj.info »
By president’s order veterans of the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 living in Tajikistan will receive 40,000 somonis (equivalent to 3,663 US dollars) each on the occasion of the Victory Day, according to the Tajik president’s press service. asiaplustj.info »
The Council of Veterans of War and Labor of the Republic of Tajikistan says only 25 veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are estimated to be still alive in Tajikistan, while last year, 37 veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 celebrated Victory Day in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Central Asian analysts have raised fears that the war between Israel and Hamas might have a ripple effect across the region, fueling a new wave of radicalization exacerbated by the effect of strident Russian propaganda. asiaplustj.info »
Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA reported on Thursday that the ambassadors of Iran and Qatar to Tajikistan have stressed the importance of continued cooperation among Islamic countries to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip “in the face of brutalities by the Zionist regime. asiaplustj.info »
Approximately 100 Tajik citizens were sent to war in Ukraine from Russian prisons, Tajik Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda said today during a press conference in Dushanbe. However, the minister did not say anything specific on this issue and only under pressure from journalists reported on the approximate number of Tajiks sent from Russian prisons to the war. asiaplustj.info »
By president’s order veterans of the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 living in Tajikistan will receive 18,000 somonis (equivalent to little more than 1,650 US dollars) on the occasion of the Victory Day, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
Forces from both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan committed apparent war crimes in attacks on civilians during their brief but intense armed border conflict in September 2022, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report released on May 2. asiaplustj.info »
According to data from the Council of Veterans of War and Labor of the Republic of Tajikistan, only 37 veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are estimated to be still alive in Tajikistan, while last year, 59 veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 celebrated Victory Day in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty says Russian recruiters are targeting Central Asian labor migrants at mosques and dormitories to join war in Ukraine. A report posted on Radio Liberty’s website on April 18 says Tajik migrant Foziljon Umarov recently applied to renew his expiring Russian residency permit in Nizhny Novgorod oblast, where he works as a bricklayer. 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 »
Child poverty across Europe and Central Asia (ECA) has soared by 19 percent, as Ukraine war and rising inflation drive four million children into poverty. A report released by UNICEF on October 17 says data from 22 countries across the region featured in the study shows children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) war game, dubbed Rubezh 2022 (Frontier 2022) that involved about 1000 military personnel along with more than 300 pieces of military hardware, including SU-25 fighters, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), closed at the Harbmaidon training ground in Tajikistan’s southern Khatlon province on October 21 with a final phase asiaplustj.info »
The behavior of persons wanting to obtain the Russian citizenship has reportedly changed in connection with partial mobilization announced in Russia. asiaplustj.info »
An active phase of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) war game, dubbed Rubezh 2022 (Frontier 2022), began in southern Tajikistan on October 17. asiaplustj.info »
Aug 30 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said. asiaplustj.info »
An article written by Bulgarian research analyst Maya Ivanova exclusively for CABAR. asia , in particular, notes that trafficking in persons (TIP) cases in Central Asia are still a relevant issue to be tackled. asiaplustj.info »
International organizations have released reports about violation by Russian and Ukrainian military of the law of war. Russian war crimes are the violations of the law of war that reportedly include aiding and abetting crimes of quasi-states or puppet states armed and financed by Russia, including Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say a ship carrying grain left the Ukrainian port of Odesa for Lebanon under a safe passage agreement on August 1. It is the first departure since the Russian Federation launched its so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, blocking shipping through the Black Sea. asiaplustj.info »
An article by Susannah George and Aziz Tassal published in The Washington Post on June 8 says Taliban forces have been locked for months in a shadowy on-again, off-again battle with opposition fighters based in the Panjshir Valley, which has long been an anti-Taliban stronghold and remains the only significant pocket of resistance to the group since the fall of Kabul last August. asiaplustj.info »
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Afghan politician, former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker, has stated that Tajikistan, by providing asylum to the Afghan opposition, has declared war against Afghanistan. asiaplustj.info »
Russia has no plans to declare war against Ukraine as part of its Victory Day celebration May 9, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said yesterday. Peskov told reporters there is “no chance” Russian President Vladimir Putin will make an official war declaration on May 9, saying the widespread speculation about him doing so are “nonsense. asiaplustj.info »
CNN says US and Western officials believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin could move to formally declaring war on Ukraine as soon as May 9, which would allow for the full mobilization of Russia’s reserve forces as they attempt to conquer eastern and southern Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Fergana news agency on April 29 published t he amount of lump-sum payments veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 living in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan will receive on the eve of Victory Day. asiaplustj.info »
Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali has signed a resolution on providing one-off aids to veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, persons equated with them (rear labor veterans, veterans of Soviet-Afghan War, Chernobyl cleanup operation participants, etc.) and the spouses of the servicemen who died in that war. asiaplustj.info »
Top Russian diplomat Sergei Lavrov has accused NATO of fighting a proxy war by supplying military aid to Ukraine, as defense ministers gathered in Germany on April 26 for US-hosted talks on supporting Ukraine through what one US general called a “very critical” few weeks. asiaplustj.info »
According to data from the Council of Veterans of War and Labor of the Republic of Tajikistan, only 59 veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are estimated to be still alive in Tajikistan, while last year, 94 veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 celebrated Victory Day in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s war in Ukraine will not only bring devastation and death to Ukrainians and Russians, but also “promises acute food crisis and rising poverty to h whole world”, says an article Aleksey Kalmykov posted on the website of BBC’s Russian Service on April 18. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday that any potential deal agreed in peace negotiations to end the war with Russia will be submitted to the Ukrainian people in a referendum. asiaplustj.info »
Evidence suggests Russia is planning "the biggest war in Europe since 1945", UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. “All the signs are that the plan has already in some senses begun,” he told the BBC in an interview on February 20. asiaplustj.info »
Critics have consistently voiced concerns that the hasty withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan could trigger a new civil war in the country. Ex-chief of CIA David Petraeus warned that the decision by President Joseph Biden’s administration to withdraw troops from Afghanistan may, in view of the current situation, plunge Afghanistan into a civil war, TOLO News reported on July 27. asiaplustj.info »
President Emomali Rahmon has signed a decree on providing one-off aids to veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. 940,000 somonis have been allocated from the President Reserve 940Fund to provide one-off aids to the war veterans. asiaplustj.info »
Speaking at a roundtable dedicated to the World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) that took place in Dushanbe, Asia-Plus editor-in-chief Umed Babakhanov talked about how hard it was for journalists during the April 28-29 unrest on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border: no one government agency contacted, each information was worth a lot of nerves and titanic efforts. asiaplustj.info »
Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali has signed a resolution on providing one-off aids to veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, persons equated with them (rear labor veterans, veterans of Soviet-Afghan War, Chernobyl cleanup operation participants, etc.) and the spouses of the servicemen who died in that war. asiaplustj.info »
