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At least two persons killed and more than 30 others wounded in new fighting between Kyrgyz and Tajik border troops in a standoff over a blocked road. As usual, each side blames the other for starting the shooting. asiaplustj.info »
Sixty-one countries of the world have provided about 94. 8 million U. S. dollars’ worth of more than 28,500 tons of humanitarian aid to Tajikistan In January-November this year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
U.S. Embassy Dushanbe’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) section has announced several new drug demand reduction initiatives in Tajikistan. The U.S. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first ten months of this year, Tajikistan has imported more than 495,000 tons of petroleum products, which is 1.4 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
A joint commission on border delineation issues is working incessantly, Kyrgyz Premier Akylbek Japarov told Kommersant in an interview commenting on problems of delineation of a common border with Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Despite a considerable amount of debts accumulated, the Tajik government is not going to discontinue the practice of foreign borrowing, and is planning to borrow more than 1 billion U. S. dollars (USD) within the next three years. asiaplustj.info »
The Government of China will provide 55,000,000 yuans (equivalent to more than 8.5 million U.S. dollars) in no-strings aid to Tajikistan for construction of a base of the Interior Ministry’s Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR). asiaplustj.info »
The revenue part of Tajikistan’s national budget has been estimated at more than 15. 4 billion somonis (equivalent to more than 1. 3 billion U. S. dollars), which was 5. 1 percent or almost 783 million somonis (equivalent to 69 million U. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first seven months of this year, Tajikistan has exported more than US$55 million worth of electricity, which was 25 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
The US Department of State notes that a joint statement issued by more than 60 countries on August 15 says Afghans and international citizens who want to leave Afghanistan must be allowed to depart and added that airports and border crossings must remain open. The U.S. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first six months of this year, more than 219 foreign tourists, including 195,000 citizens of the CIS member nations, have visited Tajikistan, which is 59 percent fewer than in the same period last year, Tojiddin Jurazoda, the head of the Tourism Development Committee under the Government of Tajikistan, told reporters in Dushanbe on July 26. asiaplustj.info »
More than 1,000 refugees from Afghanistan Badakhshan province, who were forced to flee into Tajikistan’s Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), have been placed in safe places, Gholib Niyatbekov, a spokesman for GBAO governor, told Asia-Plus . asiaplustj.info »
More than 1,000 Afghan troops have been forced to flee into Tajikistan as Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province is increasingly coming under control of the Taliban. asiaplustj.info »
Forty-eight countries of the world have provided more than 25. 4 million U. S. dollars’ worth of more than 7,700 tons of humanitarian aid to Tajikistan over the first six months of this year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
A bike marathon was held in Dushanbe on June 5 on the occasion of a World Environment Day More than 400 young people and teens participated in the event initiated by the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
CAREC Institute (CI) has conducted a survey in seven countries of the region to know to what extent people trust the COVID-19 vaccine. CI has reportedly conducted the survey in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as well as in Pakistan, Mongolia and Georgia. asiaplustj.info »
More than 500 passengers have been stranded at the airport in the southern city of Kulob since May 20 after flights to the Russian cities of Kemerovo, Volgograd and Barnaul on the Russian air carrier S7 Airlines, legally JSC Siberia Airlines, were put on hold, Jourabek Tojibekov, a representative for the airline in Tajikistan, told Asia-Plus Friday (May 21) afternoon. asiaplustj.info »
To-date, more than 69,229 people in Tajikistan have been vaccinated against COVID-19, a source within the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP) told Asia-Plus Tuesday afternoon. asiaplustj.info »
“At a time when independent and free media reporting is more essential than ever, press freedom continues to be under threat. Journalists continue to experience harsh working conditions with increasing financial and political pressure, surveillance, arbitrary prison sentences or violence for doing their work. asiaplustj.info »
According to the latest data, more than 20 people were killed and more than 200 others wounded after security forces from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan exchanged fire across the border over a water reservoir. asiaplustj.info »
The Ministry of Agriculture has reviewed the results of work carried out over the first quarter of this year. Over the first three months of this year, gross agricultural product from all categories of farms has reportedly been more than 1. asiaplustj.info »
Thirty countries of the world have provided about 12.8 million U.S. dollars’ worth of more than 4,100 tons of humanitarian aid to Tajikistan over the first three months of this year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first two months of this year, Tajikistan’s budget has received more than 9 million U.S. dollars less than it was originally planned due to reduction in non-tax revenues. Over the reporting period, a total volume of the country’s budget has amounted to some 3.536 billion somonis (equivalent to 313 million U.S. asiaplustj.info »
More than 1.6 million new jobs had been created in Tajikistan over the past nine years (2012-2020), the Minister of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population, Ms. Shirin Amonzoda, said in an interview with Jumhuriyat , an official mouthpiece of the Government of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Twenty-six countries of the world provided about US$3. 3 million worth of 387. 3 tons of humanitarian aid to Tajikistan in January this year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik banking system’s assets rose nearly 20 percent, or more than 4 billion somonis (equivalent to more than 410 million U. S. dollars at the last year’s average exchange rate), in a year to December 31, 2020, reaching more than 26. asiaplustj.info »
Riot police broke up protests across Russia on Sunday in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, detaining more than 5,000 people as Navalny supporters. Thousands of people turned out in cities across Russia on January 31 to demand the release of detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny. asiaplustj.info »
The population of the Russian Federation last year declined by 510,000 people, according to RBC. It is reportedly a record decline over the past fifteen years. Citing the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), RBC says that the death rate registered in Russia over the first eleven months of 2020 turned out to be the maximum over the past decade. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik law enforcement authorities destroyed more than 2,300 kilograms of narcotic drugs in 2020, which is 788 kilograms more than in 2019. According to information posted on the Drug Control Agency (DCA)’s website, the counternarcotics agency last year detected 144 drug-related crimes and seized 183 kilograms of narcotic drugs. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s privately owned air carrier Somon Air is expected to operate more than 130 charter flights from Russia this month. “In January, Somon Air will operate more than 130 charter flights from various cities of the Russian Federation to Dushanbe. asiaplustj.info »
Due to the coronavirus crisis, Tajikistan over the ten months of last year had spent on health care two times more than the last year’s revised budget projected for this sector. According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Tajikistan spent 3. asiaplustj.info »
More than 23,000 new jobs will be created in Dushanbe by September next year. Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali remarked this at a session of the Dushanbe legislature (Majlis) that took place at the end of the last week. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s external trade turnover has amounted to more than 4.1 billion U.S. dollars over the first eleven of this year, which is which is 101.5 percent of the level of January-November of 2020 level or 60 million U.S. asiaplustj.info »
More than 17,600 economic entities, including 652 legal entities (companies and enterprises) and about 17,0000 individual entrepreneurs, have been shut down in Tajikistan over the first nine months of this year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s external trade turnover has amounted to more than 3.4 billion U.S. dollars over the first nine months of this year, which is 8.3 percent more than in the same period last year, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan In January-September this year, the trade balance was negative and amounted to little more than 1 billion U.S. dollars. asiaplustj.info »
The transfer of the commanding staff of the Agency will be carried out once every three years. The President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, by his decree, instructed to approve the Rules for the transfer (rotation) of the commanding staff of the Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption of the Republic. asiaplustj.info »
The Microsoft co-founder says we can use lessons from the pandemic to guide our response to the next crisis. “Today the greatest risk of a global catastrophe doesn’t look like this (a nuclear war), but like this (a microbe),” said Bill Gates in 2015 during a Ted talk titled “The next outbreak? We’re not ready”, according to Entrepreneu r. 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 »
Even as Tajikistan suffers a severe COVID-19 outbreak, the country faces a looming blow from the worst global economic outlook in generations. Data through the month of May from the Listening to Tajikistan survey reveal severe disruptions in the labor market, and sharply falling remittances. asiaplustj.info »
International organizations and the government of Tajikistan have organized transportation to repatriate hundreds of Tajik citizens stranded in Kazakhstan because of restrictions implemented to combat the coronavirus outbreak. asiaplustj.info »
More than 500 Russian nationals, including women and children, stranded at the Oibek border crossing point (BCP) on the Tajik-Uzbek (Mastchoh district of Sughd province) are waiting for help from their country. asiaplustj.info »
The Russian Federation allocates 11.2 million U.S. dollars (USD) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to develop a sustainable school feeding program in Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
