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Microfinance institutions are making matters worse by offering people in debt even more onerous loans. Moscow-based business daily Vedomosti has reported that as many as 50,000 labor migrants living in Russia, many of them from Central Asia, may end up losing their legal residency status this year because of personal debts. In its August 2 report, the business daily cited an Uzbek diaspora activist as estimating that the number of people ending up as undocumented migrants expand by 100,000 by 2024. Under Russian law, foreign nationals are required to leave the country after the period of legal residence has expired. As Vedomosti’s…

Some 40 countries will attend a meeting in Jeddah to discuss a set of common principles to end the war in Ukraine. Saudi Arabia has kicked off a weekend summit in Jeddah, in which senior officials from some 40 countries – but not Russia – will aim to draft key principles on how to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday welcomed the wide range of countries represented in the talks that began on Saturday, including developing countries hit hard by the surge in food prices triggered by the war. “This is very important because, on issues such as…

Ukraine next week will begin negotiations with the United States of America on a bilateral agreement on the provision of security guarantees in the framework of the Joint Declaration of Support for our state. This was announced by the head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, which took place in Ivano-Frankivsk, Evropeyska Pravda reports with reference to the press service of the Presidential Office. According to him, these guarantees will be valid until Ukraine becomes a member of NATO. Yermak stressed that Ukraine is already working on bilateral agreements with…

Radio Ozodi became aware of new details of the car accident that occurred in Kulyab on the evening of August 6. Sources said that 10 people became victims of the tragedy, including three women aged 49 to 59, a 14-year-old teenager and six young people under the age of 26. Sources of Radio Ozodi reported that the car accident occurred due to the fault of the driver of the Dulan brand truck, Shukhratjon Ergashev, a 37-year-old native of the Rudaki district, who lives in Dushanbe. He himself died at the scene. The CoES in the Kulyab zone noted that “Dulan” was loaded…

Tajik athletes will participate in the largest kayaking and canoeing competition in Russia, the organizing committee stressed Athletes from Tajikistan will take part in the Cup of the Ageev brothers and Olympic champions Yuri Postrigai and Alexander Dyachenko in kayaking and canoeing.From this they told the organizing committee of the tournament.It is noted that the competition will be held from 2 to 6 August on the territory of the Rowing Canal of Moscow. Rowers from Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia will also take part in the Cup. “The distances are short this year, so the tournament suits our sprinters first of…

Trump said the support should end until the Joe Biden administration cooperates in investigating the financial relationships of the incumbent’s family. Former US President Donald Trump, who plans to run in the upcoming presidential election in 2024, called on Republican congressmen to stop authorizing additional military support for Ukraine at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. According to Sky News , Trump said the support should be withheld until the Joe Biden administration cooperates in investigating his family’s business dealings. “Congress should withhold authorization of a one-time additional payment of our depleted stockpile of…arms stockpiles to Ukraine until the FBI, Justice Department, and Internal Revenue…

Geneva, London (29/7 – 50) Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, condemned the arrest and imprisonment of journalists, bloggers and civil society activists in Tajikistan, and questioned the credibility of the evidence presented in court against them. Lawlor was on a two-week official visit to Tajikistan last December. The report prepared by her and members of the delegation on the results of this visit was published in May of this year, but only now became available to the public. The authorities of Tajikistan will have to prepare an official response to the document, which…

Based on data from the Customs Service under the Government of Tajikistan, the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan says forty-eight countries of the world provided 36,117,400 US dollars’ worth of 15,616.6 tons of humanitarian aid to Tajikistan over the first six months of this year, Azernews reports, citing Kabar. In January-June this year, among donor countries the greatest share reportedly came from China – 28.8 percent; the United States – 24.9 percent; Belgium – 12.9 percent; Russia – 6.5 percent; Kazakhstan – 4.8 percent; Turkiye – 3.5 percent; India – 3.1 percent; Denmark – 2.5 percent; Germany…

Our weekly update on recent developments in Chinese-Russian-Central Asian affairs. Tajikistan The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that China has opened a “super observation station for climate and the environment” near the Tajik city of Shahrtuz in the southeastern Khatlon region. Xinhua says the station will monitor “dust, pollutants and meteorological elements in key areas of Central Asia,” citing a Chinese expert. The station’s location near the Tajik-Afghan border suggests that the facility may have a dual purpose: it could also be used to keep an eye on Islamic militants operating in Afghanistan. The Shahrtuz facility is part a network of…

PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin suspended the work of regional recruitment centers for mercenaries in Russia for a month. Source : ” Novaya Gazeta Europe” with reference to the profile telegram channel associated with the “Wagnerites” Literally : “Due to the temporary non-participation of Wagner PMC in a special military operation and moving to the Republic of Belarus, we are temporarily suspending the work of regional recruitment centers for Wagner PMC for a period of 1 month.” Details : At the same time, call centers for employment in PMCs continue to work. What kind of vacancies are open, is not specified. According to New Europe estimates, as of June…