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Media reports say that Harvard University on April 15 rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist. 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 »
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 »
At the same time, it is specified that the driver of the gas carrier is alive and hospitalized. As a result of the explosion of a gas carrier on the Dushanbe-Chanak highway, 3 people died, 4 people were hospitalized with injuries. asiaplustj.info »
The Ministry of Defense of the Taliban Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has once again asked Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to return the helicopters of the previous administration that were taken following the fall of the republic. asiaplustj.info »
The Civil Aviation Agency under the Government of Tajikistan has demanded that airlines operating flights to the Russian Federation immediately lower airfare prices. “This issue was raised at an extraordinary meeting of the Civil Aviation Agency that took place in Dushanbe on January 18. asiaplustj.info »
An article by Bob Rehorst and Wouter Kuijl that was posted on The Diplomat’s website on March 24 says that with Dushanbe unable to repay outstanding loans to Beijing, a deal to cede 1,158 square kilometers of disputed territory in Tajikistan to China was struck between the governments Tajikistan’s Catch-22: Foreign Investment and Sovereignty Risks notes that the asiaplustj.info »
“Tajikistan will not refuse the AstraZeneca vaccine, we welcome it,” Tajik Deputy Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Population, Samariddin Alizoda told reporters in Dushanbe on March 18. asiaplustj.info »
When Tajikistan last summer helped its neighbors with water, many, including experts, said that because of that a power rationing had been introduced in Tajikistan itself. Uzbek media reports, citing the Minister of Water Resources of Uzbekistan, say Uzbekistan can face the same acute water shortage in the irrigation season that affected the country in 2008. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says the need to get to Russia for work drives some in Tajikistan to desperate measures. Same Khojayev, a young man from the southern district of Khovaling, came up with a convoluted way to circumvent travel restrictions imposed over the COVID-19 outbreak. asiaplustj.info »
Rumors that Tajik authorities are going to criminalize the so-called SMS-divorce reportedly do not correspond to the facts Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi, reported on November 28 that a group of lawmakers Tajik are thinking of a new draft law that would criminalize the SMS-divorce. asiaplustj.info »
He stated that equal conditions have been created for all political parties of the country and presidential candidates. asiaplustj.info »
As part of his working trip to the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), President Emomali Rahmon today visited the Vanj district. asiaplustj.info »
The Russian owner of the cargo ship that brought 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate to Beirut which exploded on Tuesday has been located and questioned by police in Cyprus. Media report say detectives on the island found Igor Grechushkin on August 6 following a request by Lebanese police. asiaplustj.info »
Speaking at the media briefing on COVID-19, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, noted on June 8 that that the number of new daily cases worldwide had hit a new high on Sunday, a sign that the pandemic appeared to be worsening. asiaplustj.info »
