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Radio Liberty says a high-ranking Afghan politician has found himself at the center of a scandal in Tajikistan involving US$15 million in cash and some 90 kilos of gold bars seized from smugglers at the Dushanbe airport in November. asiaplustj.info »
Bloggers in Tajikistan have until April 1 to show up at the tax service to register and pay taxes on any profits. Radio Liberty notes that a tax-enforcement push looks like a "win" for Tajik authorities, who are always on the lookout for additional tax revenues while being equally wary of what's posted on the Internet in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Two units of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP) generated 1. 287 billion kWh of electricity last year, which is 53. 2 percent more than in 2019, according to Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan’s national power utility company). asiaplustj.info »
During last year, the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption detected untargeted use of 124.5 million somonis at the site for construction of the Roghun hydroelectric power plant (HPP), the anticorruption chief Sulaimon Sultonzoda told reporters in Dushanbe on February 16. asiaplustj.info »
In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, the head of the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT), Hokim Kholiqzoda, revealed on February 10 that a volume of remittances sent by physical entities to Tajikistan last year fell 6.3 percent compared to 2019. asiaplustj.info »
The head of Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank) Sirojiddin Ikromi told reporters in Dushanbe on February 9 that an internal audit has revealed shortfall of funds in the accounts and provided the information about account shortfalls to the Accounts Chamber and the Prosecutor-General’s Office, according to Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi . asiaplustj.info »
Young men in Tajikistan who wish to forgo the dreaded experience of military service may now do so by paying a fee to the government, according to Eurasianet . This opt-out provision came into effect on February 4 under changes to legislation regulating conscription. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s National Development Strategy (NDS) sets a target of increasing domestic incomes by up to 3.5 times and reducing poverty by half by 2030. A report by the World Bank notes that domestic revenue mobilization is one of the top policy priorities to facilitate the required fiscal consolidation in a context of an already high level of debt. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s road asset management system program designed for 2021-2024 notes that current road assets of Tajikistan are estimated at 2. 566 billion somonis Over the past eight years, the country’s road d assets have reportedly increased nearly eight times. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says that while sending his New Year’s greetings to his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, Russia President Vladimir Putin took time to point out that this was a year for enhancing integration in not just the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and CIS, but also the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military alliance. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik health authorities claim that the coronavirus statistics have not changed in the country over the past weekends. The Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP) claims that no new coronavirus-linked deaths were reported in Tajikistan on Saturday and Sunday. asiaplustj.info »
Over the last four months of last year, Tajikistan reportedly increased electrical power supplies to neighboring countries step-by-step by nearly 80 percent. Tajikistan reportedly supplied more than US$1. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says authorities in Uzbekistan have revealed that they recorded 185 cases of babies being bought and sold between 2017 and 2020. Interior Ministry representative Nargiza Khojiboyeva said at a briefing on January 12 that in the majority of such cases, mothers had resorted to this extreme act because of financial and social insecurity. asiaplustj.info »
Citing Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS - Afghan state-owned utility company), TOLONews says the imported electricity from Uzbekistan to Afghanistan has increased from 300 megawatts (MW) to 400MW. asiaplustj.info »
An 87-year-old man in Tajikistan has reportedly been handed a five-year prison sentence for supporting families of jailed opposition politicians. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says Tajikistan is in the throes of a food crisis. In a regular year, the United Nations estimates, almost a third of the country is malnourished. Now it’s surely worse, according to Eurasianet . asiaplustj.info »
Rustam Emomali last week made his maiden official visit to Russia in his capacity as speaker of Tajikistan’s upper chamber (Majlisi Milli) of parliament (Majlisi Oli. asiaplustj.info »
Barqi Tojik (Tajikistan national power utility company) continued exporting electricity to neighboring countries last month. Meanwhile, rural areas of Tajikistan currently have electricity only several hours per day. asiaplustj.info »
After riots perpetrated by local workers, Uzbek company Enter Engineering has reportedly hired hundreds of Bangladeshi workers. On November 8, Enter Engineering reportedly brought 239 Bangladeshi workers by a special charter flight to Tashkent. According to Central Asia. asiaplustj.info »
Central Asia is prone to earthquakes, landslides, floods, mudflows, droughts, avalanches, and extreme temperatures. These natural disasters lead, on average, to an astounding $10 billion in estimated economic losses every year, Ms. asiaplustj.info »
A newly established publishing house in the Tajik capital has been awarded a lucrative government contract to print more than 1 million copies of a history book after a dubiously conducted tender by the public procurement agency, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports . asiaplustj.info »
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday joined its sister agencies in calling for global action to improve the systems that produce and distribute the food we eat, so that they can better withstand shocks including the COVID-19 pandemic that can spark alarming surges in the level of hunger in the world. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first nine month of this year, gold production in Tajikistan has risen 9 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies (MoINT). The ministry does not indicate production volumes. asiaplustj.info »
37 new officially confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Tajikistan yesterday, bringing a total number of the officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country to 10,297 as of the evening of October 13, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP). asiaplustj.info »
Kyrgyz media reports say that according to preliminary estimates, the damage caused to Kyrgyzstan’s economy by political instability as of October 10, 2020 has been estimated at 8 billion soms, or about 104 million U. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says that with election business done, eyes turn to possible government changes in Tajikistan. Recall, Emomali Rahmon has secured a fifth term in office. The Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) said yesterday that that Emomali Rahmon garnered 90. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s trade representative office in Tajikistan has reportedly expressed readiness to provide support to the Tajik Aluminum Company (TALCO). asiaplustj.info »
39 polling stations for the upcoming presidential election have been set up abroad. They have been set up at Tajikistan’s embassies, consulates and representative offices. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first seven months of this year, all types of transportation shipped more than 46.4 million tons of cargo, according to the Agency for Statistics under the Government of Tajikistan. Over the reporting period, the shipment of cargo by automotive transportation has reportedly fallen 2.2 percent and amounted to 42.9 million tons. asiaplustj.info »
Eurasianet says Tajik law enforcement agencies on August 14 arrested three sons of Said Qiyomiddin Ghozi – a late founding member of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, or IRPT, which was designated an extremist group in 2015. asiaplustj.info »
Officers from the Interior Ministry Organized Crime Control Directorate have reportedly prevented two terrorist attacks at the beginning of this year in Rasht (eastern Tajikistan) and Shahrinav (western Tajikistan) districts In a report released at a news conference in Dushanbe, the chief of the Interior Ministry Organized Crime Control Directorate, Colonel Shodi Hafizzoda, asiaplustj.info »
Over the first six months of this year, approximately 342,000 foreign nationals have visited Tajikistan, which was 262,000 people fewer than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics (Agency) under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Economic courts of Tajikistan have transferred 1,891,434 somoni (equivalent to more than 183. 5 million USD) in state duties to the country’s budget over the first six months of this year. Tajikistan High Economic Court chairperson, Ms. asiaplustj.info »
49 clerics in Tajikistan have fallen sick during the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), Sulaimon Davlatzoda, the head of the Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) under the Government of Tajikistan, told reporters in Dushanbe on July 22. asiaplustj.info »
The Supreme Court of Austria has invalidated an extradition order for Tajik opposition activist Hizbullo Shovalizoda, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on extremism charges his supporters reject after his arrival to Dushanbe from Vienna earlier this year, according to Radio Liberty . asiaplustj.info »
An earthquake that occurred in the Tojikobod district (Rasht Valley) in afternoon of July 4 reportedly partially damaged dozens of residential buildings in five villages. The epicenter of the quake, measuring 5. asiaplustj.info »
Following weeks of protests, authorities in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, or GBAO, agreed last week to give up on their attempt to jail two young men from BGAO’s Rushan district on suspicion of association with an accused drug smuggler and have, instead, decided to fine them less than US$20 apiece, Eurasianet said on June 20. asiaplustj.info »
Medical facilities in the northern province of Sughd are reportedly experiencing an acute shortage of healthcare workers. According to Sughd government’s press center, this issue was raised at a sitting of the Sughd local council (Majlis) that took place in Khujand, the capital of the Sughd province, on June 19. asiaplustj.info »
A notorious Islamic State (IS) terror group recruiter, who has been linked to terrorist attacks in Sweden, Russia, and Tajikistan, has gone missing from a prison in northern Syria, according to people with knowledge of his detention, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reported on June 16. asiaplustj.info »
Kazakhstan has reportedly equaled. Tajikistan’s number of COVID-19 linked deaths. Kyrgyzstan’s independent news agency on June 4 established a timetable for increase in the number of detected cases of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in Central Asia’s nations as of June 4, 2020. asiaplustj.info »
Russia’s deepening economic crisis is on the verge of spilling into some of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world. Migrant workers from the former-Soviet Union send $13 billion home each year from Russia, where they are allowed to work visa-free. asiaplustj.info »
