Author: Afsana

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture. The agreement aims to boost agricultural cooperation between the two nations. The MoU outlines joint efforts in plant breeding, livestock production, and scientific research. It also includes managing plant health and pests and improving agricultural exports. Both countries will collaborate on cultivating and exchanging high-priority crop seeds, addressing shared agricultural challenges. The partnership is expected to enhance agricultural practices, resource management, and production efficiency in both nations. Tajikistan’s agricultural sector has experienced growth, with a notable increase in…

A Tajik youth built a lion park with his friends in Antalya, Turkey. 22 lions are kept in this park, and residents and tourists visit the animals in special cars, feed them and take photos for memory. The young Tajik man who built this garden in Antalya did not want to be introduced because of the reasons of not interfering with his business, but he says that it is important that he was able to create a job for himself and other Tajiks in this country. He is trying to increase the number of lions in the park. In this park,…

Guli Murad and Alisher Turkman. Two poets. One from Tajikistan and the other from Uzbekistan. Both are migrant workers in Russia. They say that life away from home has changed the subject of their poems.   “I remember my homeland more, I remember my grandchildren who are in the village. I remembered my brother and sister. I missed my children. Both Manija, Yusuf, and Mehanam, I remembered my little Samrat ,” says the Tajik poet Guli Murad. He has been working and living in Russia for almost thirty years. At first, he used to go there every year during the working season and return to his…

The office of the President of Ukraine sees no signs of a split between the military and political leadership of Ukraine after the interview of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny to The Economist magazine about the situation at the front. Bloomberg writes about this, whose journalists spoke with Ukrainian officials. Speculation about significant differences emerged after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky publicly disputed Zaluzhny’s remarks. In particular, The New York Times published an article about signs of a “growing split.” In an interview with The Economist, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, among other things, said that the war with…

Some of the opponents of the “Taliban” government expressed their plan to correct the situation and solve the problems of the Afghan people. Conversations were heard in Dushanbe on the sidelines of the “Hirat Security Talks”. The meeting ended on November 28. Ethnic, linguistic, religious divisions Ali Maisam Nazari, the head of the foreign relations department of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, said that the “Taliban” will not be reformed through negotiations. He considered the pressure of the international community and the alliance of anti-Taliban groups to be important. “You know that the society of Afghanistan is very polarized. There are ethnic, linguistic,…

Until recently, the United States did not officially confirm the transfer of ATACMS missiles to Ukraine in order to maintain the element of surprise used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to attack Russian positions. The publication writes that the path to transferring missiles to Ukraine was long and difficult, but the decision to provide the missile was made on August 30. It was decided to transfer missiles of the ATACMS APAM type, capable of firing cluster warheads at 165 km. The administration’s decision to send the missiles was kept secret for weeks after President Joe Biden made the final decision, according to two…

The Turkish ambassador in Tajikistan called the closing of Turkish schools and making them public in Tajikistan “the right thing”. Umut Ajar, the ambassador of Turkey, spoke about this at a press conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey and said that the “Feto” organization, which attempted a coup d’état in his country in 2016, was invested from the income of Turkish schools in foreign countries. . But those whose children studied in these schools say that it is unlikely that the small amount they paid for their children’s education brought a lot of income…

Radio Ozodi’s special interview with Turaj Atobaki, professor of Leden University in the Netherlands. The leading Iranian scientist, professor of the University of Leden in the Netherlands, researcher of the social history of the Middle East and Central Asia, professor Turaj Atobaki, was a guest of Radio Ozodi. At the beginning of the 1990s, he visited Tajikistan a lot and organized clubs. He says that the period of cooperation between Iran and Tajikistan can be divided into three stages, one of which coincided with the period of the civil war and the other with reconciliation between the government forces and the…

Dozens of Tajik and Uzbek immigrants have been deported to their countries following an operation or raid against foreigners in Kazakhstan. On October 6, the Almaty police announced the arrest of 48 citizens of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. According to the Almaty police, they were people who violated immigration laws in Kazakhstan. These immigrants have been deprived of their right to work and deported to their homeland.The authorities of Almaty said that the emigrants were forcibly taken to the border of Uzbekistan by bus. In this country, day and night, the “Illegal” campaign is underway with the aim of detecting illegal immigrants. According to…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that about 50 relatives of government opponents have been detained and interrogated in Tajikistan. “Some have been released, but the majority are still behind bars,” said the statement of this organization, published on October 6.   We are talking about a group of asylum seekers and opponents who demonstrated on September 28-29 during Emomali Rahmon’s visit to Berlin. According to Human Rights Watch, one day after throwing eggs at the car of the Tajik president in Germany, on September 30, the Tajik authorities started arresting the relatives of German protesters and prominent opposition figures, detaining and…