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Tajikistan: Is Moscow Getting Ready to Punish Dushanbe?

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Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rakhmon, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin

Tajikistan: Is Moscow Getting Ready to Punish Dushanbe?

Eurasianet.org, April 30, 2013

Russian politicians and state-controlled media outlets have been taking lots of potshots at Tajikistan lately. Some observers believe the barrage of verbal darts may be a precursor to retaliatory measures by the Kremlin for Dushanbe’s delay in ratifying a military basing agreement.

Two of Russia’s leading nationalist gadflies — vice premier Dmitry Rogozin and the State Duma’s vice speaker and Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky – have led the chorus of criticism of Tajikistan. Both have played up the need for Russia to introduce a visa regime for Central Asian labor migrants, especially those from Tajikistan. A series of small demonstrations in cities on April 14 echoed the call for stricter migration controls for labor migrants.

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Revival of extremism in Eurasia

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Abu Usman Adil (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) 2 Abu Usman Adil, former Amir of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, killed in an American drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal belt in agust 2012

Revival of extremism in Eurasia

Rusia & India Report, March 15, 2013 Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, specially for RIR
Though Central Asian states continue to uphold secular politics, the efforts of radicals to strengthen their constituency is undoubtedly a bigger concern for Russia.

Recent developments suggest that extremist organisations like the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and Hizb ut-Tahrir are attempting to proliferate in Central Asia and Russia, and spread radicalism in Eurasia. They adopt many novel ways like converting the youth in prisons to extremist propaganda or influencing migrant workers in Russia and Kazakhstan in the teachings of Islamic extremism. These organisations evolved in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, but later shifted their bases to areas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Though the Central Asian states continue to uphold the secular nature of politics an enact laws to defend it, the efforts of the radical organisations to strengthen their constituency is undoubtedly a bigger concern for the countries of Eurasia including Russia.

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