EurasiaNet
Friday, August 28, 2015 - 06:50
Authorities in Tajikistan stand accused of resorting to all means possible to prevent the only vaguely credible opposition force, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, from holding a general conference.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - 07:08
Russia is planning to set up a radar installation in Azerbaijan in 2017. It would be Russia's first military installation in Azerbaijan after Baku refused to renew the lease for a previous radar system in 2012.
Monday, August 17, 2015 - 11:35
Russia has donated five air defense complexes to Kazakhstan, a (small) part of a planned joint air defense system shared between Russia and its allies.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 07:29
The Tajik security services are well known for employing heavy-handed tactics as they attempt to stamp out extremism. In recent months, some have reportedly forced men with beards under the razor, tried to ban sales of hijab, and carried on with the usual mass arrests of suspected Islamists.
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 07:06
The Pentagon will provide Uzbekistan with patrol boats and vehicles worth up to $6.2 million to help the country in its counternarcotics efforts, the U.S. embassy in Tashkent has announced. In the last few years the U.S. has eased the restrictions on military aid to Uzbekistan, most notably with the donation of more than 300 armored vehicles
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 06:43
While heavy fighting has broken out in northern Afghanistan, near the border of Tajikistan, officials in Dushanbe say they have the situation under control.
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 06:24
The China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization is holding joint exercises with special operations forces from Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan -- and they're doing it at a military base in Kyrgyzstan that the United States spent $9 million to build.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 06:38
Kazakhstan has acquired four state-of-the-art fighter jets from Russia, part of a deal that could include up to 36 of the aircraft by 2020 in what Kazakhstan media called "one of the biggest deals on the defense market in the last decade."
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 06:55
Tajikistan's new aid package would go toward communications equipment, small arms and ammunition, artillery and anti-aircraft missile systems, Kommersant reported, noting that: "The type of equipment has already been agreed upon, but deliveries have, in fact, not begun." In Tajikistan, no doubt, they're not going to believe it until they see it.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 06:31
Russia's post-Soviet security bloc is facing a wave of recent criticism that the organization is more talk than action. That accusation has long dogged the organization, but the recent burst of criticism comes at an awkward time as the crisis over Ukraine means that Russia is relying more and more on its non-Western allies.