Author: Anoosheh

All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age of 18. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine spring conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 citizens for statutory military service, a document posted on the Kremlin’s website showed on Sunday (31 March). All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age of 18. In July Russia’s lower house of parliament voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted to 30…

Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, has confirmed that he will run in the March 2024 elections. He linked the decision to the “need of the times”, which “must be on the side of the people”. Since 2000, Putin has been the head of the government in Russia in the position of “president – prime minister – president”. How did he and other post-Soviet governors, including Tajikistan, prolong their statehood? RUSSIA December 8, 2023. State awards ceremony in the Kremlin. Artem Joga, the leader of Donetsk separatists, received an award from the Russian president and asked him to participate in the March elections. Vladimir…

A political activist asked the United Nations to investigate the behavior of the Tajik security forces in the events of 2021 and 2022 in Badakhshan Mountainous Autonomous Region. Asliddin Sherzamonov said at the conference on minorities in Geneva on December 1 that an independent international commission should be established for this purpose. Three people were killed in the 2021 incident in Roshtkala and Khorog, and at least 34 people were killed in the operations of the security forces in Rosht and Khorog in 2022 . The General Prosecutor’s Office reported the death of 29 people. The President of Tajikistan called them members of…

The official representative of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignat, is confident that Russia did not involve most of its aircraft in the special operation. According to him, Moscow uses only 300 aircraft. “Out of its one and a half thousand combat aircraft and helicopters, Russia uses <…> about 300 units,” said Yuri Ignat in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon (included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the register of individuals-foreign agents and the register of terrorists and extremists). He concluded that the Russian Federation did not use most of its aviation equipment. In Ukraine, they…

Cotton farmers in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan say that they grow cotton with great pains and expenses, but they buy its harvest at a price that does not make them much profit. Now in these three countries, farmers are gathering the last harvest of their crops. The “pain” of the cotton growers of the three countries is the low price of cotton, which does not bring them much profit. Now the price of one kilogram of cotton in Uzbekistan ranges from 6500 soums (0.53 cents) to 9500 soums (0.78 cents). Farmers say that this price does not cover their expenses. “If it…

The Maschoh district court has deprived a woman of her citizenship and imposed a large fine on her for falsifying documents. Shohidamo Akhmadova, who was a citizen of Uzbekistan in the past, got a passport after marrying a native of Tajikistan. Now this passport has questioned his life and marriage. After 12 years of marriage and living in Tajikistan, the local authorities in Mastchoh district during an investigation found out that the documents of this woman are fake and were obtained illegally. The woman’s family considers the court’s verdict unfair, saying that this was done on purpose. Shohidamo Akhmadova is a native…

Have you ever felt dissatisfied with something in your face in front of the mirror or, for example, wanted to change something in your face or body?  Now the question is for those who have already done this – they have changed the shape of their lips or eyes and eyebrows, or they have pierced their cheeks. How are you feeling? Was it the right decision? Some say that something that God has given should not be changed or that natural beauty is more beautiful. Whatever we say or don’t say, this has become a part of people’s lives, we see it every…

Amsterdam, Berlin (16/11 – 10) Diwali, a.k.a. Deepavali, is a Hindu religious celebration as well as a traditional festival, celebrated across India. Customarily known as “The Festival of Lights”, as it is festooned with arrays of colored illumination, it is held from October to November every year. Deepavali 2023 was celebrated on November 12, over a five-day period. Deepavali is the annual Hindu celebration of the triumph of light over darkness. Rarely will you visit a Hindu home during Deepavali without passing under a doorway highlighted by a beautiful, vividly-colored picture created out of flour, rice or flower petals. It…

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Tajikistan announced the arrest of a 68-year-old man on suspicion of “immorality and performing sexual acts”. According to this agency, a resident of Khujand without any medical knowledge presented himself as a “mullah and a doctor” to the people, and by offering exorcisms and “using the religious beliefs” of women, he committed shameful acts against them. The General Prosecutor’s Office said in a report on October 28 that the suspect was arrested on October 23 in the house of a resident of Khujand. According to the prosecutor’s report, he came to the woman’s house with the…

The high-ranking Russian diplomat said that 120,000 students in Tajikistan study Russian at school, and the rest learn this language as part of the educational program. Semyon Grigorev, the ambassador of Russia, expressed this point on October 6 at a conference on multilingual education in Tajikistan. In particular, he said: “In Tajikistan, 60 schools teach entirely in Russian, and 178 schools have Russian classes. In total, they cover 120,000 students.” He said that 9,000 teachers teach in Russian in Tajik schools. In Tajikistan, the Russian language has the status of the language of communication between nations. Critics criticize the more active teaching of…