Politics

Rosselkhoznadzor (Russia’s agency for farm produce supervision) threatens to impose ban on vegetable imports from Tajikistan.

Tajik deputy foreign minister has conveyed to Russian ambassador Tajik government’s concern over the situation that emerged around Tajik labor migrants working in the Russian Federation.

Deputies of the State Duma considers that the guilty verdict passed by a Tajik court on two Russian-hired pilots is unfounded and politically motivated.

Tajikistan’s Ambassador to Russia Abdulmajid Dostiyev has met with State Secretary and Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Grigory Karasin.

Some 25 people gathered near the Tajik Embassy in Moscow yesterday demanding the release of two pilots of Rolkan Investments Ltd who were detained and convicted in Tajikistan.

The Russian ambassador was summoned to Moscow last Friday for consultations over Sadovnichiy’s case.

The commission has been set up to opportunely respond to appeals of our citizens and render assistance to them.

Nearly 300 Tajik nationals are currently waiting for deportation at temporary detention centers in Russia. They were allegedly detained for committing various violations.

A government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and Russia on deployment of a Russian military base in Tajikistan for a 49-year period is expected to be signed during the first quarter of 2012.

At Astana informal summit of heads of CSTO member states will discuss regional security issues.

Hamrokhon Zarifi has stressed that an agreement that will be signed during Russian president’s visit to Tajikistan does not provide for the return of Russian border guards to Tajikistan.