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EurasiaNet
April 13, 2018
A recent desperate and quixotic measure by Tajikistan's government to boost budget revenues has forced the local population into almost total international financial isolation. For a couple of months now, it has not been possible in Tajikistan to use payment terminals to top up e-wallet accounts. In case ofÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 5, 2018
Once, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) shared power in the government of Tajikistan. The IRPT was the only registered Islamic political party not only in Tajikistan but anywhere in the former Soviet Union. Today in Tajikistan, you can't even talk publicly about the IRPT without risking arrest,Ãâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 22, 2018
During the March 14 Astana summit of the leaders of all five Central Asian states (see EDM, March 20, 21), the minister of religious affairs and civil society of Kazakhstan, Nurlan Yermekbayev, and the chairman of the Religious Affairs Committee of the government of Tajikistan, Davlotzada Sulaimon, signedÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
March 21, 2018
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Export Control and Border Security program (EXBS) of the United States Embassy in Dushanbe on March 20 donated a new regional training center for prevention of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear non-proliferation, and export control to the Government of Tajikistan.
Times of Central Asia
March 12, 2018
DUSHANBE (TCA) — An effective and service-oriented tax administration is essential to ensuring a healthy business environment and promoting economic growth in Tajikistan. So the Government of Tajikistan has made tax reform a major priority for the country as it seeks to achieve its development goalsÃâà...
Ahval
March 6, 2018
Since 2015, the authoritarian government of Tajikistan, ruled by President Emomali Rahmon since 1994, has intensified its crackdown on all forms of potential dissent within the country. The government declared the leading opposition party, the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT), a moderate party whoseÃâà...
Trend News Agency
March 3, 2018
24 in Uzbekistan's Ferghana. The agreement is planned to be signed during the visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Tajikistan on March 9-10. According to the sources in the government of Tajikistan, the visit puts an end to the disputed border issues between the two neighboring countries.
AzerNews
February 28, 2018
Tajikistan will begin supplying electricity to Uzbekistan in late March or early April this year. The total volume of exports of Tajik electricity to the neighboring country will amount to at least 1.5 billion kilowatt-hours per year, according to a source in the government of Tajikistan, Central Asian media outletsÃâà...
AzerNews
February 22, 2018
The government of Tajikistan has attracted and spent 79 million for the modernization of the HPP, or, more precisely, for the reconstruction of the open switchgears (500-kV and 200-kV). However, other parts of the hydro power plant also need reconstruction, including hydroelectric generators. In 2009, theÃâà...
AzerNews
February 19, 2018
The Government of Tajikistan plans to fully pay off its external creditors which have acquired Tajik government bonds (Eurobonds) till 2028, Central Asian media outlets reported. As many as $500 million, attracted last year due to the sale of government securities, is spent on the completion of the RogunÃâà...
Reliefweb
February 15, 2018
... of Afghanistan was held today on 15 February 2018, with participation of the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CoES) under the Government of Tajikistan and the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), 17 diplomatic missions and international organizations.
ReliefWeb
January 16, 2018
Dushanbe, Tajikistan, January 16, 2018 – The Government of Tajikistan and the World Bank today signed a US$16.5 million grant agreement for the Zarafshon Irrigation Rehabilitation and Management Improvement Project aimed to rehabilitate and improve irrigation management in Tajikistan. The projectÃâà...
EurasiaNet
September 13, 2017
Tajikistan has declined to despatch an official delegation to attend this year's annual rights conference in Poland held by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, thereby spurning an event heavily attended instead by the exiled opposition. State media back home, meanwhile, prefaced theÃâà...
EurasiaNet
August 11, 2017
A vendor wearing a hijab (left) hands a purchase to a customer at the Panjshanbe food market in Khujand. Tajik authorities are now frowning upon clothing that is either too conservative or too revealing. (Photo: Asian Development Bank via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). On the afternoon of August 3, policeÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
December 31, 1999
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Authorities in Tajikistan have lodged a formal request for Turkey to extradite two Tajik opposition politicians who were detained in Istanbul on March 19, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Tajik Interior Ministry spokesman Umarjon Emomali told RFE/RL on April 10 that Dushanbe is inÃâà...
Daily Times
December 31, 1999
ISLAMABAD: The Tajikistan government Tuesday rejected the statement by head of US forces in Afghanistan that Russia was supporting and even supplying arms to the Taliban from the border of Tajikistan. “The groundless statement made by Gen John Nicholson, the head of the US forces in Afghanistan,Ãâà...
AzerNews
December 31, 1999
The government of Tajikistan officially denied the alleged transport of Taliban terrorists' weapons through its territory. "The baseless statement by General John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, in an exclusive interview with the BBC about alleged supplies of arms through the border ofÃâà...
AzerNews
December 31, 1999
At the end of January 2017, the Government of Tajikistan adopted a resolution banning the importation of vehicles produced before 2005. As previously reported, this ban entered into force on February 15. The ban on the importation of old cars into the country was introduced for reasons of environmentalÃâà...
