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President Emomali Rahmon has sent the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) a proposal to relieve Rajabmoh Habibullozoda of her post of the Ombudsman for Child’s Rights also Deputy Ombudsman of the Republic of Tajikistan, a source at the Majlisi Namoyandagon told Asia-Plus in an interview. asiaplustj.info »
Water scarcity is particularly acute problem in Central Asia. The situation is exacerbated by severe over-exploitation of the available water resources and the effects of global climate change. In addition, water resources in the region are unevenly distributed and used for different purposes. asiaplustj.info »
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Barqi Tojik’s debt to Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) Sangtudinskaya GES-1, which operates the Sangtuda-1 hydroelectric power plant (HPP), has reached 1. 73 billion somonis (equivalent to more than 153 million U. asiaplustj.info »
In a statement delivered at the online conference on Digital Economy in Tajikistan, Jan-Peter Olters, Country Manager, World Bank Office in Republic of Tajikistan, noted that digitalization can address the legacy of climate change, and landlocked geographical position of the country. asiaplustj.info »
The design of fiscal policies can either improve or worsen poverty and inequality. asiaplustj.info »
U. S. Department of State says Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosted a virtual C5+1 Ministerial for the Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan on April 23. asiaplustj.info »
Khujand, the capital of the Tajik northern province of Sughd, and the Uzbek city of Kokand have signed a memorandum on cooperation. The press center of the Sughd governor’s office says the document was signed by Khujand Mayor Firdvas Sharifzoda and Kokand Hokim Marouf Usmonov during a visit of a Sughd delegation to the Uzbek city of Fergana last week. asiaplustj.info »
A 80-year-old Doniyor Nabiyev (Boboi Dona) jailed on extremism charges was released on April 23, Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service , known locally as Radio Ozodi, reported on April 24. One of Boboi Dona’s relatives told Radio Ozodi on the basis of anonymity that the last weeks Boboi Dona was in the penal colony’s infirmary. asiaplustj.info »
The Government of Tajikistan has ordered the Ministry of Finance to issue securities in a form of bills of exchange in a total amount of 1 billion somonis (equivalent to 88.4 million U.S. dollars) A decree adopted by the Government on April 3 notes that the issue of these securities is carried out in order to regulate the country’s public debt. asiaplustj.info »
The next Central Asia – USA (C5+1) high-level meeting is being held today through videoconferencing, a source within the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview. . asiaplustj.info »
Nikolai Nikulin, Director of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)’s Representative Office in Tajikistan, and Masrur Nazriyev, authorized representative of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development, yesterday held a working meeting with the Russian Trade Representative in Tajikistan Yevgeny Korenkov, according to the EDB press center. asiaplustj.info »
The body of the 19-year-old Rajabali Nazarov was handed over to his family on April 21 and his was buried in his native village in Divashtch district (Sughd province). asiaplustj.info »
The ex-chairman of Isfara and a repeated participant of intergovernmental negotiations Mirzosharif Islomidinov told Asia-Plus about the history of border conflicts - about maps, documents, negotiations and incidents, as a result of which Vorukh became an “enclave”. asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan’s privately owned air carrier Somon Air has increased the number of regular flights from Dushanbe to Tashkent – from once-weekly service to twice-weekly service. Beginning on April 23, Somon Air will operate two Dushanbe-Tashkent-Dushanbe- flights per week – on Mondays and Fridays. asiaplustj.info »
Invitation for Bids (IFB) Republic of Tajikistan Night Storage Heaters Including Remote Control System Component 2. asiaplustj.info »
Dushanbe is making preparations to host the 4th Central Asian Climate Change Conference scheduled for July 25-26 this year. Bahodour Sheralizoda, Head of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of Tajikistan has met in Dushanbe with Irina Bekmirzayeva, Regional Coordinator of the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program for the Aral Sea Basin (CAMP4ASB). asiaplustj.info »
Tajikistan has fallen one position to 162 at the 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). RSF says that following the Russian model, other governments, including Tajikistan, used the need to compbat disinformation about COVID-19 as grounds for imposing additional curbs on press freedom. asiaplustj.info »
The National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) reports on interventions in the country’s foreign exchange market for the purpose of providing economic entities with foreign market and stabilizing the foreign exchange market. asiaplustj.info »
On Tuesday April 20, President Emomali Rahmon signed the laws on the National Academy of Sciences and judicial bodies as well as the laws on amendments made to the country’s laws on courts, gardening, narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors and the country’s Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes, according to the Tajik president’s official website. asiaplustj.info »
Administrators of Khujand, the capital of the northern Sughd province, and private Chinese investors had signed an agreement to build a massive residential and leisure complex called Chinatown in Khujand’s neighborhood on the banks of the Syr Darya River, replacing its one-story houses with modern apartment blocks and recreational facilities, says an article by Farangis Najibullah asiaplustj.info »
Ingenuity is a small robotic helicopter located on Mars since February 18, 2021. It successfully completed the first powered controlled flight on April 19, 2021, taking off vertically, hovering and landing. asiaplustj.info »
Three years ago, on April 19, 2018, Tajikistan’s lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of parliament (Majlisi Oli) endorsed a draft law on amendments to the country’s law on state finances. The amendments, in particular, provided for setting up the Fund of Leader of Nation. asiaplustj.info »
The Dushanbe mayor’s office is taking efforts to curb rise in prices of basic food products during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, according to the Dushanbe administration press center. By Dushanbe mayor’s decree the Dushanbe Trade and Economics Department has organized fairs selling basic food products and agricultural goods at below market prices. asiaplustj.info »
Two residents of the city of Nurek in the southern Khatlon province have been detained on suspicion of manufacturing and selling counterfeit United States currency. According to the Interior Ministry’s website, two young men, 23 and 17 years old, were detained in Nurek on April 19 on suspicion of selling counterfeit U.S. dollars. asiaplustj.info »
President’s Administration Office has received a complaint from civil society regarding military recruitment raids (forcible conscription of young people into the army – Asia-Plus) and sent it for consideration to the Ministry of Defense, the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor-General’s Office, known Tajik journalist Rajab Mirzo, who is one of initiators of this appeal, asiaplustj.info »
Ex-head of Roudaki district Rustam Akramzoda has resigned as member of the Majlisi Milli (Tajikistan’s upper chamber of parliament), the Majlisi Milli press center reported on April 16. He was elected a member of the Majlisi Milli on March 27 last year. asiaplustj.info »
The head of the representative office of the Tajik Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population (MoLMEP) in Moscow, Zohir Mirzoyev considers that the number of illegally employed nationals of Tajikistan in Russia provided by the Interior Ministry of Russian Federation is overstated. asiaplustj.info »
An article by Turar Bekbolotov entitled Round-the-clock Water Supply Changes Lives in Tursunzoda notes that access to clean water has long been a major challenge for most residents of Tajikistan. Tursunzoda, a city 60 kilometers west of the capital Dushanbe, has long been one of those population centers struggling to serve its residents with clean water. asiaplustj.info »
The Agency or Statistics under the President of Tajikistan (Agency) says about 58,000 foreign nationals visited Tajikistan over the first three months of this year, last year, which is 909,000 people fewer than in 2019. asiaplustj.info »
On Wednesday April 14, Tajik Minister, Ms. Zulfiya Davlat, received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan to Tajikistan, Mr. Mohammad Zahir Agbar. During the meeting, Afghan diplomat proposed to establish the Cultural Association of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, according to the Ministry of Culture (MoC) press center. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first three months of this year, Tajikistan’s electricity deliveries supplies to the neighboring have increased by 43 percent compared to the same period last year. In January-March this year, Tajikistan has supplied US$9. asiaplustj.info »
The Moscow Migration Center plans to open its representative office in Dushanbe. This issue was discussed at a meeting of Tohir Karimzod, Head of the Migration Service at the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population (MoLMEP) with Sergey Baldin, Director-General of the National Budget Department at the Moscow Migration Center. asiaplustj.info »
Over the first three months of this year, Tajikistan has imported more than US$58 million worth of about 118,400 tons of petroleum products, which was 2. 7 percent fewer by weight and 22. 6 percent fewer by cost, according to the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
Political consultations between Central Asia’s nations and the Visegrad Group (also known as the "Visegrad Four" or simply "V4" – Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Chez Republic) at the level of deputy foreign ministers were held though video-conferencing on April 15. asiaplustj.info »
On Thursday April 15, Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin received has received Sweden’s Foreign Minister and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ms. Ann Linde the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden - the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ms. asiaplustj.info »
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, Lieutenant-General Emomali Sobirzoda, who is also the Frist Deputy Minister of Defense of Tajikistan, yesterday met in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Army General Valery Gerasimov. asiaplustj.info »
Denmark has ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully, according to the BBC . The move is expected to delay the country's vaccination program by several weeks. asiaplustj.info »
The body of young woman was found at an altitude of 2,000 meters in the mountains not far from the village of Zarteg, which is subordinate to the city of Levakant in the southern Khatlon province, according to the Emergencies Committee under the Government of Tajikistan. asiaplustj.info »
A new TV channel “Ilm va Tabiat” (Science and Nature) was launched in Tajikistan today, a source within the Committee for TV and radio-broadcasting u der the Government of Tajikistan, told Asia-Plus in an interview. asiaplustj.info »
Relatives of the police officer who was killed by two assault rifle shots in the building of the police station in Khatlon’s Panj district in February this year consider the investigation into the criminal case on this fact unfair, and ask to transfer the case to the Khatlon regional prosecutor's office. asiaplustj.info »
A meeting of deputy foreign ministers of Central Asia’s nations and China took place on April 13 via video link. According to the Tajik MFA information department, Tajikistan was represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Muzaffar Huseinzod at the meeting. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik authorities say electricity rationing will be mitigated during the holy month of Ramadan. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik commercial bank that went bankrupt – Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) Fononbonk – has fully paid off its debts to its customers, with the exception of persons associated with the bank, according the National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) press center. asiaplustj.info »
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan has completed consideration of criminal proceedings instituted against 119 suspected members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group and sentenced 117 of them to various jail terms ranging from five to 23 years. Two others were fined for not reporting a crime. asiaplustj.info »
A four-week training course on sustained field operation capacity for border officers of Tajikistan’s Border Troops was completed in Tursunzoda district on April 8. According to the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, the course, which was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in cooperation with Tajikistan’s Border Troops, was funded by the European Union. asiaplustj.info »
Sweden’s Foreign Minister and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Ms. Ann Linde, is expected to visit Tajikistan this month. According to the OSCE’s website, Ann Linde will visit the OSCE participating States of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan from April 11-15. asiaplustj.info »
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The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, Lieutenant-General Emomali Sobirzoda, who is also the Frist Deputy Minister of Defense of Tajikistan, will attend the next session of the Military Committee of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that will take place in Moscow on April 14, according to the Ministry of Defense e of Tajikistan (MoD). asiaplustj.info »
An awarding ceremony for winners of the “2020 Dushanbe Best Entrepreneur” contest took place at Hyatt Regency Dushanbe Hotel on April 9. Asia-Plus Radio is among winners of the contest again Deputy Mayor of Dushanbe, Umed Gurezzoda, gave prizes to the winners. asiaplustj.info »
