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Russian media outlets reports that according to an investigation by Austrian outlet eXXpress , almost half of all Ukrainian wheat and corn exports to the EU ended up feeding pigs in Spain to produce the world-famous, and very expensive, jamon. asiaplustj.info »
Three officers of the Kulob police department have been punished over the death of a 37-year-old resident of the city of Kulob, Abduqahhor Roziqov. Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimzoda said this at a news conference in Dushanbe today while reporting on the results of the work carried out by his ministry last year. asiaplustj.info »
The Guardian , citing sources inside Iran, reported on February 12 that Iran has used boats and a state-owned airline to smuggle new types of advanced long-range armed drones into Russia for use in its war on Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Moscow and Tehran are moving ahead with plans to build a new factory in Russia that could make at least 6,000 Iranian-designed drones for the war in Ukraine, the latest sign of deepening cooperation between the two nations, according to the Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ). asiaplustj.info »
Last year, the net profit of Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s state-run savings bank) amounted to almost 102 million somonis (equivalent to about 9 million US dollars), which is 53.5 percent more than in 2021, says press release issued by Amonatbonk. asiaplustj.info »
Russian nationals have beaten a five-year record for entry into Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Mongolia. The data published by the Federal Security Service (FSB)’s border troops was calculated by Novaya Gazeta Europa ( New Newspaper Europe ). asiaplustj.info »
Media reports say drones attacked a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan. Iran’s Fars News Agency ( FNA ) reported on January 29 that Iran’s Defense Ministry has announced that the country's air defense units foiled a drone attack on a defense industrial complex in the central province of Isfahan. asiaplustj.info »
Citing central banks of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia, RBC said on January 28 that these countries received record high mounts of remittances from Russia last year. RBC notes that it failed to get information on Tajikistan. Uzbek national last year reportedly sent 14. asiaplustj.info »
As Eurasianet reports often, journalists in all five countries are routinely silenced by the authoritarian governments for reporting on corruption, abuse of power, and human rights. So, it is not uncommon for reporters to take pseudonyms to protect themselves from real physical and legal threats. asiaplustj.info »
The press center of the Surkhandarya regional power grids says that in conditions of abnormally cold weather, Tajikistan has begun supplying electricity to provide regular energy supply of residential customers and social facilities in Uzbekistan’s Surkhandarya region. 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 »
Residents of the northern province of Sughd complain that the price of coal has risen, while its quality is low. Currently, coal is sold in the province mainly in two areas: Khujand’s Guliston neighborhood unit and Unji and Yova jamoats in Bobojon-Ghafourov district. asiaplustj.info »
An article by Temur Umarov posted on Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s website notes that Moscow had every opportunity to make the Central Asian nations gravitate toward it of their own accord. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service says Tajik authorities reportedly failed to meet the autumn enlistment quota on December 1 and took extreme measures to fulfill the autumn conscription campaign target. asiaplustj.info »
An article by a RFE/RL correspondent in Prague Reid Standish says Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February sent geopolitical shockwaves around Central Asia and has altered long-standing assumptions about the balance of power in the region. asiaplustj.info »
IRNA reports that Director of the Exploration Department of the National Iranian Oil Company, Mehdi Fakour, said at a news conference in Tehran on December 6 that the National Iranian Oil Company has used modern methods developed by knowledge-based companies to discover new oil reserves in southwestern Iran. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik migrant workers hired by some Russian construction companies to rebuild the destroyed Mariupol reportedly complain that employers have cheated them. asiaplustj.info »
The UN says the world's population has hit eight billion, just 11 years after passing the seven-billionth milestone. After a big surge in the middle of the 20th Century, population growth is already slowing down. asiaplustj.info »
The press center of the Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office says sons of 124 officials have gone to serve in the army during the ongoing autumn conscription campaign. asiaplustj.info »
A high-ranking Iranian general highlighted the country’s progress in the drone industry, saying 22 foreign states are interested in purchasing Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). asiaplustj.info »
Tajik authorities have handed down long prison terms to three independent journalists and bloggers in recent days. Four other reporters are awaiting sentencing. The trials have all been held behind closed doors, preventing public scrutiny. asiaplustj.info »
Iranian media reports say an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Khoy County in northwestern Iranian Province of West Azerbaijan Wednesday morning while the tremor was also felt in the nearby counties early morning. asiaplustj.info »
Seven Afghans have been removed from Tashkent-London flight on August 5 this year for having forged British passports. asiaplustj.info »
TASS says that according to data from FinExpertiza (a network of professional audit, valuation and consulting firms), 3.12 million labor migrants have entered the Russian Federation over the second quarter (April-June) this year, which is one third more than in the same period last year and “record quarterly value for at least the last six years. asiaplustj.info »
The Jerusalem Post reports that Operation Breaking Dawn so far seems to have more in common with Operation Black Belt in which Al-Ata was killed and Hamas chose not to get openly involved. Operation Breaking Dawn, which started on Friday, was reportedly a long time in the making. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan has reportedly decreased imports of food products significantly over the first six months of this year. asiaplustj.info »
Reuters reported on July 6 that the European Union (EU) plans to become the top investor in the world’s tallest dam in Tajikistan in a move aimed at helping Central Asia cut its reliance on Russian energy and part of EU’s answer to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. asiaplustj.info »
The number of people killed in an earthquake that hit Afghanistan’s Paktika and Khost provinces early yesterday morning has reached 1,500, Al Jazeera reported , citing an official of the ruling Taliban. asiaplustj.info »
Citing the Afghan disaster management authority, media reports say at least 1000 were killed and more than 600 other injured after a devastating tremor hit Afghanistan's Paktika province on Wednesday. asiaplustj.info »
Commander of the Taliban subunits in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province, field commander Qari Vakkas, has defected to the National Resistance Front (NRF), Aamaj News reported on June 21. It is reported that over two days, the militants that defected to the NRF have seized Khambak, Kuri and Kotu-Bala villages in Tagab district. asiaplustj.info »
Ms. Bermet Talant, a journalist from Kyrgyzstan who is currently based in Sydney, says that in a live discussion, hosted by Radio Liberty on June 16, she spoke with Mouslim Buriyev, an independent researcher from Dushanbe, about how inflation has affected him and what he had to give up or take up to cut his expenses. "Prices for particular products have skyrocketed. asiaplustj.info »
An article posted on Eurasianet’s website on June 13 notes that Tajik-speaking Islamic State recruiters say they are fundraising on a Russian payment platform. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik-born Russian singer Manizha has been removed from the list of performers at the upcoming Stereoleto song festival in St. Petersburg, scheduled for June 12-13, Fontank. ru reported on June 7. asiaplustj.info »
A new report released by Standard and Poor (S&P) Global Ratings, an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global, notes that rice in international prices will increase risks for emerging markets, including Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. asiaplustj.info »
On June 4, Tajik Minister of Economic Development and Trade Zavqi Zavqizoda heading a Tajik delegation met in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt with Dr. Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser, Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), on the sidelines of the IsDB Group annual meeting. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty reports tens of thousands of middle-class Russians fled the country in March, seeking to escape the harsh economic and political fallout from the war in Ukraine. But because of a lack of visas, flights, tickets, and financial resources, many reportedly ended up in post-Soviet countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first three months of this year, about 145 foreign tourists visited Tajikistan, which is 2.5 times more than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
The spread of monkeypox in the world is in the focus of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population of Tajikistan (MoHSPP), Navrouz Jaffarov, an official with a MoHSPP, told Asia-Plus Wednesday afternoon. asiaplustj.info »
Afghanistan and Iran have decided to establish the joint chamber of commerce several years ago, but it has not been opened so far. Citing avapress. asiaplustj.info »
Iran has the upper hand in drone production in the region, making it possible for the country to meet its needs while cooperating with other countries of the region on producing reconnaissance drones, a senior spokesman for the Iranian armed forces said on May 18, according to IRNA . asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , notes that unprecedented information and propaganda campaign aimed at justifying the Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine on one hand, and a flow of information showing the tragic consequences of the war that include large-scale human rights violations, alleged atrocities, asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mr. Nizomuddin Zohedi, has reportedly described circumstances in Iran as appropriate for expansion of cultural interactions with neighboring countries, particularly with Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
The Washington Post reported on May 2 that in Afghanistan, which has been a global hub for opium production for decades, now meth industry is growing at breakneck speed, stoking fears among Western experts and officials that, under the Taliban, Afghanistan could become a major supplier as demand rises globally. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says that during two months in spring (April-May and two months in autumn (October-November), Tajik men of serving age are routinely hauled off streets or taken from their homes and forced into cars by plainclothes law enforcement, according to . Locally, this practice is known as ‘oblava’ (raid). asiaplustj.info »
Implementation of conscription campaign has become a big problem for Sughd province. The problem is so serious that the ministry of education and science has sent an official letter to Sughd-based higher educational institutions to universities to allow graduates to take state exams ahead of schedule so that they could be called up for military service. asiaplustj.info »
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP) says over the first three months of this year, 24,104 boys have been circumcised in Tajikistan free of charge. There were 97,560 circumcisions performed in Tajikistan’s hospitals last year, according to the MoHSPP press center. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik and Saudi industry ministries are considering the possibility of establishing a logistics hub in order to increase the bilateral trade, according to the press center of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan (MoINT). asiaplustj.info »
Investigation into criminal proceedings instituted against the Shohida Mamadjonova, the mother of exiled blogger and outspoken government critic Sherzod Mamadjonov, has been completed and the case has moved to a court, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reported on April 4. asiaplustj.info »
China's growing involvement in Central Asia economically, culturally, politically and even militarily has been a contentious topic for people from the region. While some view China's involvement as offering Central Asian countries an opportunity for advancement, others view it in more negative ways, with China having tremendous influence in the affairs of their country. asiaplustj.info »
Citing to Afghan airline officials, the Associated Press ( AP ) reported on March 26 that Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian. asiaplustj.info »
