Mahmadruzi Iskandarov (file photo) (RFE/RL) DUSHANBE, June 29, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- The deputy chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan, Jumaboi Niyozov, today accused the Tajik authorities of trying to keep the party's jailed leader incommunicado.
Anatoly Adamishin is a former Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom and Italy, and a former minister for cooperation with CIS countries. During Tajikistan's civil war he was first deputy foreign minister and, as such, was intimately involved in the inter-Tajik dialogue that led to the peace agreement signed in Moscow on June 26, 1997. He was reportedly one of the few Russian government officials who pushed for talks with the Tajik Islamic opposition. Adamishin, who is retired and currently works as a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, talked to RFE/RL's Tajik Service correspondent Salimjon Aioubov on June 27, the ninth anniversary of the Moscow peace agreement that ended the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war.
Amid celebrations to mark Tajikistan's Day of National Unity on June 27, RFE/RL Tajik Service correspondent Darius Rajabian spoke with former Tajik Islamic opposition leader Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda. Turajonzoda was a member of the opposition delegation to peace negotiations during that conflict. A peace deal was signed with the Russian-backed government nine years ago today, on June 27, 1997, ending five years of bloody civil war. Turajonzoda talked about some of the highlights of the negotiations.
(RFE/RL) June 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Tajikistan is celebrating its ninth annual Day of National Unity, a holiday that marks the signing of a 1997 peace deal that ended five years of civil war, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported.
Mahmadruzi Iskandarov (file photo) (RFE/RL) MOSCOW, June 23, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A Moscow lawyer for jailed Tajik opposition leader Mahmadruzi Iskandarov says she has appealed to Russian judicial authorities to help bring her client back to Russia for questioning over his alleged abduction in 2005.
June 23, 2006 -- Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka today acknowledged that the process of setting up a customs union and integrating the economies of six former Soviet republics "is not moving as quickly as it was supposed to."
Tajik Interior Ministry troops conducting exercises (file photo) (ITAR-TASS) DUSHANBE, 23 June 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Officials in Dushanbe today reacted with confusion to media reports that Tajikistan recently sent an undercover into neighboring Uzbekistan to carry out terrorist attacks.
June 22, 2006 -- Leaders of several former Soviet republics are gathering in Minsk for meetings of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community, to be held on June 23.
22 June 2006 -- A pro-government Uzbek media outlet reported today that law enforcement agencies in that country's southern Surkhandarya region recently arrested a man whom they claim Tajik authorities had smuggled across the border with a view to performing terrorist attacks in the country.
Central Asia's relations with China have been on the rise -- bilaterally and multilaterally -- for several years. But there are some who fear "creeping colonialism" by Beijing.
Dodoion Atovulloyev (file photo) (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, June 21, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Russian Interior Ministry to protect Dodojon Atovulloyev, a Moscow-based Tajik journalist who has been receiving death threats.
(RFE/RL) PRAGUE, June 21, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Reporters Without Borders has called on the Russian Interior Ministry to protect Dodojon Atovulloyev, a Moscow-based Tajik journalist who has been receiving death threats.
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