KABUL – After a three-year period of border closures, Tajikistan has decided to reopen border cooperation with Afghanistan, specifically in several districts of its Gorno-Badakhshan region, in a move that is seen as a step towards the normalization of relations between the two neighboring...
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The National Alliance of Tajikistan, an organization banned in Tajikistan and representing a coalition of organizations opposition to the Tajik authorities, condemned the arrest of Abdukodir Rustam, a famous Tajik writer and educator, calling it “an attack on the spirituality of the...
Supreme Commander-in-Chief Kassym-Jomart Tokayev addressed the military personnel. The head of state highly appreciated the level of preparedness of the units involved. The President noted the importance of conducting such military exercises in a difficult geopolitical situation. “Today...
Paris, Toronto (17/9 – 37) The French ambassador to Niger and other French diplomats “were actually held hostage in the French embassy” during the emergency following the military junta coup d’état that gave the boot to Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s elected president, on July 26. A...
Akbar Akhmedov, one of the suspects in the kidnapping and murder of the first deputy chairman of the Orienbank, died suddenly in the Dushanbe pre-trial detention center and was secretly buried in his native Khujand. On September 2, three well-informed sources told Radio Ozodi that on...