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Speaking at a virtual briefing, Mr. Eugene Zhukov, Director General of the Asian Development Bank (ABD) Central and West Asia Regional Department, noted on September 29 that there is a high risk of reduction in remittances sent by Tajik labor migrants from Russia to Tajikistan due to the “partial mobilization” announced in Russia. asiaplustj.info »
The Russian Federation is ready to assist Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in resolving border issues in connection with the aggravation of the situation on the border of the two countries. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova, writes TASS. asiaplustj.info »
The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) as a terrorist and banned its activities in the country. “Izvestia” reports. The meeting was held behind closed doors. asiaplustj.info »
The Kremlin is trying to buy ammunition for Soviet artillery systems from Tajikistan and offers retired military men to go to war in Ukraine. It is reported by The Insider with reference to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
About 420 thousand people have left Russia since the beginning of the year, which is almost twice as many as compared to the same period last year, RBC reports with reference to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service. asiaplustj.info »
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin ordered an agreement with Tajikistan on the mutual recognition of coronavirus vaccination certificates. The order is published on the official portal of legal information. asiaplustj.info »
The driver and another passenger miraculously survived the head-on collision and are now in the hospital. As a result of a traffic accident in the city of Syzran, Samara region of Russia, three young Tajiks were killed, two more were injured, the Embassy of Tajikistan in Russia reported on its Facebook page.. asiaplustj.info »
Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA reported on August 24 that Iran’s Ambassador to the Russian Federation has announced exchange of rial and ruble between Iran and Russia for the first in history to trade. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan plans to double or triple farm produce exports to Russia’s Sverdlovsk oblast in 2023. Deputy Head of the Consultative Council at the General Consulate of Tajikistan in Yekaterinburg, Yaqubjon Umarov, stated this in an interview with TASS . asiaplustj.info »
After a two-year suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic, rail traffic has resumed between Tajikistan and the Russian Federation. The first train with 600 passengers on board departed from the Tajik southern city of Kulob to the Russian city of Volgograd on August 15. asiaplustj.info »
Russia would not like to see about a hundred planes and helicopters, flown by U.S.-trained Afghan pilots to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in mid-August last year as they fled the Taliban, get into Ukraine, Zamir Kabulov, the Special Representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan also Director of the MFA Second Asian Department, told RIA Novosti in an interview on August 16. asiaplustj.info »
Taliban want to purchase one million barrels of oil from Russia. Kommersant says Taliban Industry and Trade Minister Nuriddin Azizi said this in an interview with the Russian state0run news agency RIA Novosti . asiaplustj.info »
Two Tajik brothers have been jailed for beating policemen in a subway station in Moscow. Moscow asiaplustj.info »
Thirteen Tajik nationals have been extradited from Russia to Tajikistan at the request of the Tajik law enforcement authorities. The Prosecutor-General’s Office of the Russian Federation announced on August 9 that 13 Tajik nationals have been extradited from Russia to Tajikistan at the request of the Tajik law enforcement authorities. asiaplustj.info »
Some air carriers operating fights from Tajikistan to Russia are expected to lower passenger fares next month. Thus, new rates on route from Dushanbe to Moscow will go into effect on September 7. 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 Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), which is nothing of liberal but the main right-wing populist party in Russia, proposes to toughen control over the stay of migrants in the country following the brutal killing of a 17-year-old girl in Novosibirsk. asiaplustj.info »
U. S. Secretary of State, Mr. Antony Blinken says the practical effect of sanctions is roughly equivalent to recognizing Russia as a sponsor of terrorism, but the Department of State is still studying this issue. asiaplustj.info »
Iranian Mehr News Agency reports that speaking at his weekly presser on July 26, Iran's Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Ehsan Khandouzi spoke about the economic aspects of the recent visit of the presidents of Russia and Turkey to Tehran. asiaplustj.info »
The Prosecutor-General’s Office of the Russian Federation has applied to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation asking to designate the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) as a terrorist organization. asiaplustj.info »
Under the approved indicative balance, Tajikistan has imported 340,000 tons of petroleum products from Russia over the first six months of this year, which is 41 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources (MoEWR). asiaplustj.info »
The United States will create a new permanent army headquarters in Poland and increase its long-term military presence across the length and breadth of Europe in response to threats from Russia, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. U.S. asiaplustj.info »
The State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) ratified the Agreement between the Russian Federation and Tajikistan on cooperation in the field of pensions on Tuesday, June 28. The Agreement was signed in Dushanbe on September 15, 2021. asiaplustj.info »
Bloomberg says Russia defaulted on its external sovereign bonds for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors. asiaplustj.info »
Russian President Vladimir Putin is arriving in Dushanbe today. He will hold talks with his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon here to discuss bilateral cooperation. Some media reports say Putin makes short stopover in Dushanbe on his trip to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, where he will attend a summit of Caspian nations including the leaders of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Turkmenistan. asiaplustj.info »
The number of labor migrants working in Russia’s construction sector has decreased to 500,000 people, which is only a quarter of figures of late 2020, RIA Novosti reported on June 17, citing Anton Glushkov, the president of the National Builders' Association of Russia (NOSTROY). asiaplustj.info »
Sanctions imposed by the West on Russia have already affected labor migrants from Central Asia, says a report released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). asiaplustj.info »
Speaking to members of the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum via video link, Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the countries, which are attempting to isolate Russia, are primarily only harming their economies, Izvestiya reports . asiaplustj.info »
The State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) denounced the agreement on pension guarantees for citizens of the CIS countries, which has been in force since 1992. The decision was formalized as a federal law, The Moscow News reports . asiaplustj.info »
Experts expect the socio-economic situation in Tajikistan to worsen against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia. We calculated the vulnerability index of our economy to 151 countries of the world and found out that the Tajik economy is most vulnerable to Russia. asiaplustj.info »
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a press conference after a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Foreign Ministers in Dushanbe on Friday, May 13. Global and regional issues, interaction in CIS format as well as current developments in Ukraine were reportedly on the agenda of the meeting. asiaplustj.info »
The first Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Central Asian nations and the Russian Federation, was held in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, on May 12. asiaplustj.info »
Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday designated Russia as a terrorist country and recognized its actions in Ukraine as genocide. In doing so, Lithuania has become the first country in the world to designate Russia as a sponsor and executor of terrorism, Ukraine's Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security tweeted. asiaplustj.info »
Russian media reports note that Russia Foreign Minister says unlike the West, Russia, unlike the West, does not consider Central Asia as a region for geopolitical confrontation. asiaplustj.info »
Open Democracy article -- Tajikistan Has a Special Relationship with Russia. Could War Change That? -- describes public sentiments in Tajikistan regarding Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi , reported on April 29 that Amriddin Alovatshoyev, who is considered leader of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) youth in Russia, has got a lengthy jail term. 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 »
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The Russian military has warned it could strike Ukrainian “decision-making centers” in the Ukrainian capital and said wouldn’t be stopped by the possible presence of Western advisers there. The Russian Defense Ministry yesterday accused the U.K. asiaplustj.info »
Foreign minister of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are holding an online meeting via video link today. asiaplustj.info »
Citing Ukrainian officials, media reports say Russia launched its long-feared, full-scale offensive to take control of Ukraine’s east on Monday, attacking along a broad front over 480 kilometers long. 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 Russia's Defense Ministry has told the Ukrainian forces still fighting in the besieged southern port of Mariupol to lay down their arms starting 6 a.m. Moscow time on Sunday, April 17 to save their lives. asiaplustj.info »
During his video address to a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Ukrainian President said yesterday that "accountability must be inevitable" for Russia as he accused Russian troops of committing "the most terrible war crimes" since the Second World War, Reuters said on April 5. asiaplustj.info »
Russian air carrier S7 Airlines that stopped flights to Tajikistan on Mach 5 resumed flights to Tajikistan beginning on April 3. Beginning on n April 3, S7 Airlines operates a once-daily service from the Tajik northern city of Khujand to Moscow. asiaplustj.info »
Financial sanctions imposed on Russia threaten to gradually dilute the dominance of the U.S. dollar and could result in a more fragmented international monetary system, Gita Gopinath, IMF's First Deputy Managing Director, told The Financial Times in an interview. 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 »
Compared to 2020, remittances from Tajik citizens sent through money transfer system to the country from Russia last year rose 3.1 percent, or 5.4 million U.S. dollars (USD). The Central Bank of Russia says 1. asiaplustj.info »
Inamullah Habibi Samangani, deputy central spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), tweeted today that Maulawi Abdul Kabir, Deputy Chairman of the Taliban Cabinet for Political Issues, has met with Vladimir Skurikhin, Russia’s Vertical Group CEO, and Aleksandr Kalachyov, Chairman of the Helicopter Repair Company, at Sapidar Palace in Kabul. asiaplustj.info »
During the years of Tajikistan’s independence, its economy remained under Russian influence. CABAR.asia notes that the unprecedented package of sanctions imposed by the Western countries on Russia due to the war with Ukraine has already led to a number of problems in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
