Author: Padidah

The terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall in March 2024, which left 140 people dead, has sparked a crackdown on central Asian workers living in Russia, and put the relationship between the region and Russia under increasing strain. The four suspected gunmen under arrest are all citizens of Tajikistan, a central Asian nation that was once part of the Soviet Union. Following the Crocus City attack, Russian police started rounding up and deporting workers who are originally from Tajikistan, as well as from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The attack, which Russia has blamed on Ukraine, also sparked massive police raids, document checks of migrants…

Berlin (2/3 – 62.50). Lt. Gen. Alfons Mais says the €100 billion committed by the government last year is insufficient. Meanwhile, an association representing soldiers says the Bundeswehr turnaround needs to speed up. Germany would have to spend more money on its armed forces if it wants it fully equipped, army chief Lieutenant General Alfons Mais said on Sunday. He told the German news agency, dpa, the €100 billion ($107 billion) to speed up the modernization of the armed forces promised by Chancellor Olaf Scholz after Russia invaded Ukraine was not enough. Mais, caused a stir last year when he criticized what he described…

Dushanbe 25/2 (35.71). The social networking activity of “influencer” Ismoil Mahmadzoir is causing a stir within the country’s political and security corridors. His grandfather President Emomali Rahmon is planning his succession, which has triggered quiet maneuvering within elite factions, including Mahmadzoir’s relatives. Nobody is clear about how becomes the next president of Tajikistan. The daughters jockeying for the top job besides the grandson.Video of a bland speech by Tajikistan’s long-time President Emomali Rahmon was posted late last month on Instagram by Buzkashi_1111, a handle created by Ismoil Mahmadzoir, the 25-year-old son of Firuza Emomali, one of the president’s daughters, who…

Friends who are old faces and friends in high places: Kazakhstan’s former leader Nursultan Nazarbaev has proven in recent months that he still has both. Does that mean the 83-year-old is mulling a political comeback? Kazakh officials loyal to his successor, Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, are keen to dispel the notion. But the very fact that they are feeling the need to comment on the idea is indicative of the interest — and, in some quarters, alarm — sparked by the ex-president’s recent return to the national news cycle.The first week of January will mark the second anniversary of the Bloody January…

After the implementation of a government decision in October, hundreds of sales vehicles manufactured until 2013 were stuck at the customs stations of Tajikistan. The traders say that they had a plan to make a profit, but they have been wandering for about three months. “Hyundai Avanta”, “Sonata”, “Porter”… The temporary station attached to the Customs Office in the city of Bustan, Sughd region, is full of “old” foreign vehicles day and night. Cars brought from abroad by businessman Ismailjon Normatov are also there. On December 7, he said: “12 of my cars are lying at the station. Types of “Hyundai-Avanta”, “Sonata”, “Porter”…

The employees of the United Nations office in Dushanbe, like their colleagues around the world, observed a moment of silence in memory of 101 employees of this organization and other victims of the war between Israel and Hamas. On November 13, the UN flag was flown at half-mast in UN offices all over the world, and the employees of this organization mourned. The UN office in Dushanbe wrote on its Facebook page that “we pay tribute to the courage, bravery and dedication of our colleagues who tragically lost their lives in the Gaza Strip.” 101 staff members of the UN…

Abdujalil Hoshimov, popular actor and singer “Shashmakom” died at the age of 79. Furqat Saidzoda, a famous Tajik singer, reported on this on his Facebook page and wrote that Abdujalili Hoshimov passed away in Buston (formerly Chkalovsky). The cause of Abdujalil Hoshimov’s death is not clear. Some of the melodies and songs performed by him, such as “Nasri Uzzol”, “Talqinchai Iraq Bukhara”, “Mustazad Navo”, “Talqini Bayot”, “Ufari Ushshaq”, “Don’t lose friends”, “Good news of the taste of hope”, “Tajikistan” and others are kept in the golden treasury of Radio Tajikistan. Abdujalil Hoshimov was born in 1944 in the village of Histevarz, Bobojon…

London (05/11 – 44.44) Benjamin Wey, a Chinese-American financier, founder of Fintech Holdings and a history of legal trouble, is suing Sri Lanka for $250 million. Wey claims that he was assured by Sri Lanka’s central bank governor that the country would repay a $250 million bond. However, Sri Lanka defaulted on the bond in April 2022. Wey is seeking to collect the full amount of the bond, plus interest. He has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit is a major setback for Sri Lanka, which is already facing a severe…

Toronto, Alaska (16/11 – 50) Our lives are being maneuvered and we are being manipulated by unelected, insidious forces, toward objectives not necessarily in the people’s interest. Now that the so-called “pandemic”, declared by the mysterious self-appointed World Health Organization, and followed obediently by governments everywhere, has been decreed “finished”, we should devote a moment to introspection, considering who is running the show and for whose benefit, as governments gaily abdicated their vested responsibility to govern. Pandemic is over? I hope they told those killer viruses who destroyed the population of Europe and North America. What? Oh, just 1% mortality?…

The quality of the internet has been severely compromised by restrictions placed on the market. The first step to solving a problem is admitting that it exists. Telecommunications regulators in Tajikistan have taken a surprising step in that direction by reportedly admitting this week that a staggering 95 percent of the country’s territory is covered by only outdated 2G mobile connections. This situation is in no small part due to the State Communications Service itself. In addition to regulating the sector, the service and the people running it are also major market players, albeit in highly nebulous ways that would be unthinkable…