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After the massive aerial strike launched by Iran on Israel directly from its soil, there are claims that Tehran also employed hypersonic missiles that allegedly hit all its designated targets, bypassing Israel’s cutting-edge air defense systems. asiaplustj.info »
Afghanistan’s Hasht-e Subh reported on April 11 that local sources in Takhar province report that Tajik border forces shot and killed at least seven Afghan citizens who illegally crossed the border to Tajikistan. 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 »
Iran tipped off Russia about the possibility of a major "terrorist operation" on its soil ahead of the concert hall massacre near Moscow last month, three sources familiar with the matter said, Reuters said on April 1. asiaplustj.info »
Reuters reported on March 28 that the corporate exodus from Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine has cost foreign companies more than 107 billion US dollars in writedowns and lost revenue. asiaplustj.info »
In 2023, Tajikistan’s exports amounted to 2.4488 billion US dollars, which is 14.3 percent more than in 2022, Director of the Export Development Agency under the Government of Tajikistan, Bahriddin Sirojiddinzoda, told reporters in Dushanbe on February 9. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan may not recognize the Taliban government of neighboring Afghanistan, but the two countries are starting to cooperate better on trading electricity. Eurasianet says Energy and Water Resources Minister Daler Juma told reporters in Dushanbe on February 1 that Afghanistan had fully paid off its debts for power delivered to date. Kabul has since 2021 proven an unreliable customer. asiaplustj.info »
Iranian media reports say the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has fired barrages of ballistic missiles at bases of terrorists in Syria, who were involved in recent attacks in Iran, as well as an Israeli espionage center in Iraq's Kurdistan region. asiaplustj.info »
During the period from January 10 to January 15, a meeting of the topographic working groups and the working group for legal issues of the Tajik-Kyrgyz commission for delimitation and demarcation of the disputed segments of common border took place in the Kyrgyz city of Batken. asiaplustj.info »
The Diplomat notes that over the last few months, several horrific cases of violence against women have broken onto headlines in Central Asia. In September, it was Asel Nogoibayeva, tortured by her ex-husband for hours in front of her 10-year-old son in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. asiaplustj.info »
Uzbek scientists have created an edible COVID-19 vaccine synthesized from the common tomato called TOMAVAC, the Frontiers research journal website says . According to the journal, the scientists inserted a fragment of the gene encoding the S1 antigenic protein of the coronavirus into special vectors and spliced it into the genome of tomato cells. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet reported on January 10 that Taliban-linked media outlet Almirsad claimed that the second Kerman suicide bomber attacker was also Tajik. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on January 9 that Tajik militant Muhammad Sharifov (aka Mahdi Arsalon), who is wanted in Dushanbe on terrorism charges, disappeared in Afghanistan months ago. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty reported on s that Austrian police said on January 7 that a Tajik man being held in connection with an alleged terrorist plot targeting Cologne Cathedral remains in custody after two weeks as a result of a European arrest warrant issued by Austria. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on January 3 that the chairman of a farming unit in Dousti district, Khatlon province has been jailed for “cooperating” with Isloh TV , a website close to the government opposition. asiaplustj.info »
Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) Speaker Mahmadtoir Zokirzoda says President Emomali Rahmon has proposed to write off business entities’ tax arrears accumulated until 2018. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on December 22 the government of Tajikistan has recently transferred thousands of hectares of prime land to a private company. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik and Afghan power utility companies – Barqi Tojik and Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) – have reportedly signed an agreement on purchase of Tajik electricity in 2024. asiaplustj.info »
German media reports said on December 23 that the Islamist terrorist cell had planned terrorist attacks in Germany and Austria. Several arrests were reportedly made. asiaplustj.info »
The Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan, citing the Ministry of Finance (MoF), says the amended tax collection target for the first ten months of this year has been overfulfilled by 4. asiaplustj.info »
The Hacker News reported on December 1 that Chinese hackers have conducted attacks on governmental servers in Uzbekistan and against individual users in South Korea. asiaplustj.info »
Over the past three and half years (2020-2022 and the first half-year of 2023), prosecutors have reportedly issued 8,435 injunctions and 4,066 prosecutorial protests against local officials for violations of the procedure for allocating land plots, the Prosecutor-General’s Office says on its official website. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first ten months of this year, Tajikistan has earned about 106 million US dollars from exporting electricity to neighboring countries, which is 4. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reported yesterday that Asliddin Sharipov, the brother of the director of an opposition online television station, has been held in a detention center in the Tajik northern city of Khujand weeks after he was extradited from Russia. asiaplustj.info »
CABAR.asia says this year’s cotton harvest in southern Tajikistan has reportedly far exceeded last year’s result. Although, in general, world cotton prices have increased slightly, farmers complain of significant losses. CABAR. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s government has been accused of using electricity as leverage against its political opponents after officials allegedly cut off power to the family homes of several opposition figures. asiaplustj.info »
Some Iranian media reports say Iranian Defense Minister, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani, is paying a visit to Tajikistan on Tuesday. Tasnim News Agency reported on October 16 that heading a high-ranking delegation, General Ashtiani will depart for Tajikistan tomorrow. asiaplustj.info »
Iran's international textile exhibition kicked off in the capital Tehran on Sunday with the participation of textile companies from 11 countries and regions, IRNA reported on October 15. asiaplustj.info »
Oishamo Abdulloyeva, the mother of self-exiled opposition leader Sharofiddin Gadoyev, told Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service on October 12 that Farkhor district authorities cut off electricity to her house a day earlier over her son's political activities in Europe. 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 »
TOLOnews reports that the Acting Minister of Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Habibullah Agha, said at the ceremony celebrating International Teacher's Day on October 5 that the ministry is working to improve educational opportunities for students in the country. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on September 19 that Turkish media reports say a Turkish citizen who had resided in Tajikistan for 28 years was abducted by unknown individuals in Dushanbe on September 16 and forcibly taken to Turkiye, where he is wanted for alleged links with the Gulen movement that is banned in Turkiye. asiaplustj.info »
One more person, suspected of being involved in the abduction and murder of the first deputy head of Orienbank Shuhrat Ismatulloyev, has been detained in Turkiye and extradited to Tajikistan, the press center of the Prosecutor-General’s Office of Tajikistan reported. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty reported on July 26 that officials in Tajikistan have taken over several major properties, including a hotel, a lycee, and a city park that are linked to the influential spiritual leader Aga Khan in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s TASS news agency reported today morning that the United States claims it helps Central Asian countries overcome consequences of ant-Russia sanctions. Ms. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet reported on July 5 that the government of Tajikistan’s campaign against the operations of a charitable organization funded by the Agha Khan, the spiritual leader of the country’s Ismaili minority, has intensified over the past few weeks. asiaplustj.info »
Russian technology companies are producing a vast array of new tools to help the Kremlin harness the internet and tighten control over internal dissent, says an investigative report released by The New York Times on July 3. asiaplustj.info »
Press release issued by Tajik private insurance and reinsurance company, Spitamen-Insurance, says it has been awarded the Eurasian Union of States’ Golden Order “For Labor and Valor”. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty reported on June 13 that two letters obtained by it from inmates at the penal colony in the Russian city of Samara show that inmates from Central Asia are being forced to work at the penal colony-based plant to support Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Investigators of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS)’s office in Sughd province have concluded probe into the case of the freelance journalist Khurshed Fozilov and submitted it for confirmation of the indictment to the prosecutor’s office, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi reported on May 11, citing Fozilov’s defense lawyer asiaplustj.info »
Citing the “Khorog” border unit’s press center, the state-run news agency Khovar reported on April 28 that the country’s security forces have prevented a breakthrough by a transnational armed group of drug smugglers in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO). asiaplustj.info »
Media outlets, citing Mexican news agencies, say the Government to Tajikistan has purchased the Mexican presidential jet, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner. 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 »
Eurasianet says a group of Russians who moved to Kyrgyzstan following their country’s invasion of Ukraine are coming under escalating pressure from law enforcement in a fresh sign of how a nervous government in Bishkek is eager to avoid displeasing Moscow. asiaplustj.info »
Some media reports said on February 27 that Iran has handed the Afghan embassy in Tehran over to the Taliban. The Iranian foreign ministry denies this. asiaplustj.info »
Damage caused by avalanches to energy facilities in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) has been estimated at 1.7 million somonis. Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Sorbon Kholmuhammadzoda, stated this in GBAO’s capital, Khorog, on February 21 at a meeting to discuss measures to eliminate disaster consequences in the area. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s consulting company FinExpertiza notes that inflow of labor migrants into Russia increased last year by a third. The inflow of labor migrants from Uzbekistan reportedly grew the most last year – by 377,700 people, or 35. asiaplustj.info »
The Emergencies Committee under the Government of Tajikistan says dozens of avalanches and mudslides have occurred in Tajikistan over the past couple of days. Yesterday, 38 avalanches reportedly came down in Rushan district of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) alone. “Rural roads are temporarily closed for traffic,” Ms. asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say more than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkiye and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkiye now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing. asiaplustj.info »
Torrential rain and heavy snowfall on February 17 and 18 caused 24 avalanches, six landslides and five mudflows in the country, according to the Emergencies Committee under the Government of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
