Tajkistan

Rustam Emomali asks anticorruption agency to review financial activities of the Dushanbe administration

Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali has filed a request with the Agency for Finance State Control and Combating Corruption for the review of financial activities of the Dushanbe administration.

09:34, january 9, 2019

ADB approves grant to support increase in cross-border power trading in Central Asia

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on January 9 approved a $4.

17:22, january 8, 2019

Snowfall continues in mountain areas

Snowfall has been continuing in mountain areas of Tajikistan for already second day. In Khorog (Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region - GBAO), the snow cover depth has reached nearly half a meter.

16:45, january 8, 2019

Dushanbe administration will hold meeting next week to review the results of the past year’s work

An enlarged meeting of the Dushanbe administration, presided over by its head, Rustam Emomali, will take place on January 15 to review the results of the past year’s results.

15:57, january 8, 2019

SECURITY

AKAH hands over two off-road vehicles to the GBAO emergency management agency

The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) has handed over two NIVA vehicles (Russian-made off-road vehicles) to the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CoES)’s office in the

11:43, january 8, 2019

Rockfalls and landslides block in several places the main highway from Dushanbe to Khorog

Torrential rain on January 7 caused a series of rockfalls and landslides that blocked in several places the main highway from Dushanbe to Khorog, the capital of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region

11:26, january 8, 2019

SECURITY

Incident after incident occurs in Tajik border troops, but border service keeps silence

Four serious incidents have occurred in the Tajik border troops over the past thirty-five days but the border service keeps silence.

10:08, january 8, 2019

Korean company starts building hydroponic greens houses in northern Tajikistan

South Korea’s Myung Sung Placon Ltd has begun building hydroponic greenhouses in the northern Sughd province.

17:18, january 7, 2019

The current number of stateless persons in Tajikistan could be estimated at some 40,000

The right to a nationality has been recognized in various human rights instruments.

14:47, january 7, 2019

The body of drowned Saadi-Komandir found in 22 days

The body of drowned Colonel (Retd.

14:27, january 7, 2019

Hundreds of people come to bid farewell to Rajabmo Isoyeva and her three children

Hundreds of people came to bid farewell to Rajabmo Isoyeva and her three children who were buried at cemetery in the village of Malik Giyoyev in Kushoniyon district in Khatlon province today morning.

11:44, january 7, 2019

Tajik border officer killed in an armed skirmish along Tajik-Afghan border in Khatlon

A Tajik border officer has been killed in an armed skirmish that has taken place between Tajik border guards and armed Afghan drug traffickers along the Tajik-Afghan border in the Shamsiddin-Shohin

10:58, january 7, 2019

Dushanbe’s taxi companies expected to switch to single-color fleets in summer this year

Dushanbe Mayor Rustam Emomali has signed a decree obligating local tax companies to switch to single-color fleets beginning on June 15 this year.

10:15, january 7, 2019

Four members of Tajik family killed in Magnitogorsk disaster buried in their naïve village today morning

Bodies of four members of a Tajik family killed in the Magnitogorsk disaster were transported to Tajikistan yesterday and they were buried in their naïve village of Malik Giyoyev in Kushoniyon

09:42, january 7, 2019

State Language Committee recommends that Russian military terms are replaced with Tajik-Persian words

The State Language Committee has recommended that Tajikistan’s army stop using Russian military terms and replace them with pure Tajik-Persian words, while the Defense Ministry, however, is in

17:33, january 4, 2019

Somon Air now operates some flights that had previously been operated by Tajik national air carrier

Tajikistan’s privately-owned air carrier Somon Air now operates some flights that had previously been operated by Tajik Air (Tajik national air carrier).

17:01, january 4, 2019

Tajik known human rights lawyer dies

Tajik known human rights lawyer Faiziniso Vohidova, who for decades defended dissidents, rights activists, and opposition politicians, has died at the age of 55.

16:15, january 4, 2019

Access to social media sites restricted in Tajikistan again

Internet service providers (ISPs) shrug their shoulders an here is no official information from the communications service agency.

15:24, january 4, 2019

Government expected to review the results of the past year’s work in late January

Presided over by President Emomali Rahmon, an enlarged government session will take place in Dushanbe on January 26 to review the results of the past year’s work and discuss plans set for 2019,

15:00, january 4, 2019

Tajikistan, Egypt discuss cooperation in tourism

On December 31, the Governor of Egypt’s South Sinai, Khalid Fouda, received the Ambassador of Tajikistan to Egypt, Khusrav Noziri, who was accompanying a Tajik tourist delegation on the first

11:38, january 4, 2019

Armed Afghan drug dealers kidnap Tajik shepherd

Armed Afghan drug dealers has reportedly kidnapped a shepherd in the board area of the Shamsiddin-Shohin (formerly Shouroobod) district in the Khatlon province.

11:19, january 4, 2019

LAW-ORDER

Brother of one of informal leaders of GBAO detained in Khorog

The brother of one of informal leaders of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) has been detained in Khorog. He has reportedly been arrested for hooliganism committed in 2014.

10:24, january 4, 2019

Rahmon extends condolences to Russia over deadly Magnitogorsk blast

Tajik President Emomali Rahmon yesterday sent a message of condolences to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over a deadly incident in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk, which left dozens of

09:41, january 4, 2019

Bodies of Ulfatov’s wife and their three children found in burial ruins of apartment bloc in Magnitogorsk

Bodies of four Tajik nations – the mother and her three children – have been found in burial ruins of apartment bloc in Magnitogorsk.

17:18, january 3, 2019

Tajik currency-exchange points stop selling U.S. dollars again

Currency-exchange points of some local banks have stopped selling U.S. dollars because of lack of the U.S. currency.

16:23, january 3, 2019

Tajik authorities raise tinted glass permit fees again

According to the Interior Ministry Traffic Police Directorate, the tinted glass permit fees have been raised in Tajikistan again.

15:31, january 3, 2019

Tajikistan, ADB sign grant to improve maternal and child healthcare

The Government of Tajikistan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $32 million grant to help Tajikistan improve healthcare services in Fayzobod, Rasht, and Shamsiddin-Shohin district,

15:20, january 3, 2019

International tender for state-run cocoon-breeding enterprise set for February

An international tender for Tajik state-run cocoon-breeding enterprise, Open Joint Stock Company (OJSC) Pillai Tojik (Tajik Cocoon), has been set for February 1 and both domestic and foreign physical

14:46, january 3, 2019

By-election of representative of GBAO to Tajikistan’s upper house of parliament set early spring

By-election of representative of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) to Tajikistan’s upper house (Majlis Milli) of parliament has been set for early spring, an official source at the

10:51, january 3, 2019