DUSHANBE, March 5, 2012, Asia-Plus — Vladimir Putin, who has reportedly won a landslide victory in Russia’s presidential election on March 4, will now “turn his eyes towards Tajikistan” in order to solve the problems of the deployment of Russian military base here and the use of the Ayni airfield, Tajik journalist Nourali Davlat told Asia-Plus in an interview on March 5.
According to him, the Kremlin will also try to return Russian border guards to the Tajik-Afghan border. “Dmitry Medvedev failed to tackle this problem,” Davlat said.
“Moscow has lost everything in Europe and the Kremlin’s nuclear truncheon is not frightful to the West any more, because all riches of Russian top people and oligarchs are now in the Old World or across the water. Moreover, their offsprings now live or study there,” said the journalist. “Therefore, they will not destroy their capital and their relatives.”
Davlat considers that Putin will use every tool to reach goals in Tajikistan. “One of such tools is Tajik labor migrants working in Russia,” the journalists said, noting that more than 1.5 million Tajik labor migrants are currently working in the Russian Federation.
Using this factor, the Kremlin will bring the Tajik government to terms sooner or later, the journalist stressed.
