Tajikistan

Irrigation water rate rose 150% in Tajikistan starting from January 1, 2024; the price for one cubic meter of irrigation water has increased from 0.002 somoni (€0,00017) to 0.005 somoni

The heads of ministries, agencies, provinces and cities will start holding press conferences on the results of the last six months' work on 29 January; on 4 March 2005, President Rahmon had signed a decree obliging them to hold quarterly press conferences

The Kazakh authorities sent the innovative Bark VibroLUNG medical equipment to health workers in Tajikistan after 40 Tajik specialists, including some pulmonologists, attended a special training course in Kazakhstan on how to use the device

Majlisi Milli President Rustam Emomali, who is also mayor of Dushanbe, visited the Iran House of Innovation and Technology in Tehran as part of his official visit to Iran

Two sets of equipment were handed over to the director of the Glacier Research Centre Abdulhamid Qayumov to study glaciers under real conditions

Training for 84 officers of the Tajikistan Border Guard was conducted by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe as part of the EU-funded project 'Stabilisation of Tajikistan's southern border with Afghanistan'

President Emomali Rahmon proposed the creation of a glacier study centre, recalling that his country is fast losing many glaciers, more than 1.000 in recent decades, mainly due to the increasing impact of global warming

An exhibition of thoroughbred cattle, as well as camels and ponies, was held in Khujand, capital of the northern province of Sughd

A sudden spike in petrol and liquefied natural gas prices has led to an increase in public transport fares in some regions of Tajikistan, up to a 25% rise in shared minibus taxi fares in Khorog

Tajikistan and Russia have signed an agreement worth 250 million roubles (2,5 million Euros) for the joint fight against drug trafficking for the period 2023-2025

A shortage of electricity is expected this season, as the inflow of water feeding hydroelectric power plant is much lower than last year, requiring a regulation of the use of water and energy resources by both businesses and residential customers

Nizomiddin Nasriddinov, a former activist of the opposition movement Group 24, was sentenced to 8½ years in prison on charges of making public appeals to forcibly change Tajikistan's constitutional order