🇷🇺🇹🇯🌓 Well, well, well, what's got Dushanbe so upset? The Russian ambassador to Tajikistan, Semyon Grigoryev, was handed a note of protest from the Tajik Foreign Ministry expressing serious concern over the widespread negative attitudes towards Tajiks at border crossings.

📌 If some (doesn't matter which country they're from) foreign citizens are being detained or not allowed to enter another country, then the customs or border officials have their reasons for doing so.

This applies to all foreigners, not just Tajiks. And if a certain number of Tajik citizens cannot enter Russia, then, apparently, they were caught doing something illegal, and their presence in Russia is undesirable, as they are unreliable and may pose a danger to Russians.

Such control measures should have been implemented much earlier, and then the problems we're seeing now wouldn't have arisen at all, but better late than never.

🔻The reaction of the Tajik authorities is quite understandable, as the tightening of entry rules is causing increasing unrest within the republic, which Dushanbe is concerned about. It's no wonder, considering that the country's budget is largely formed by taxes collected from migrant workers.

However, the Tajik leadership should understand (and does understand) that migration policy will undergo changes, and they need to adapt to them, rather than issuing notes of protest. That's certainly not in the spirit of good neighborly relations.
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🇫🇷🇹🇯 Will the French build a hydroelectric power plant in Tajikistan?

The French company Carpi has expressed interest in building hydroelectric power plants on the Zeravshan River. This became known during a meeting between the Deputy Minister of Energy and Water Resources of Tajikistan, Manuchehr Safarzoda, and representatives of the company.

During the dialogue, Carpi expressed its readiness to participate in the implementation of priority projects in the country's energy sector.

📌 Since Tajikistan's potential for building hydroelectric power plants is quite high due to the terrain, the French have apparently decided to try their luck in this area. Tajik media hope that Carpi will contribute to the creation of a cascade of hydroelectric power plants, agreed with Uzbekistan back in 2018.

Especially now, the Tajiks are grasping at any initiative coming from Western countries, against the background of a reduction in the number of projects due to the suspension of USAID's work. The company will certainly be tried to be attracted to the completion of the long-term construction of the Rogun HPP.

However, there is a nuance: earlier, the French were also tried to be interested in the prospects in the energy sector in Kyrgyzstan. It was about the construction of a hydroelectric power plant by the French Electricite de France. But even after Sadyr Zhaparov's visit to Paris, the matter did not budge from a dead end. And even President Macron, who promised to visit Kyrgyzstan a year and a half ago, never came.
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