CPT expected to print 40,000 copies of its official newspaper on the eve of the parliamentary electi

DUSHANBE, February 3, 2015, Asia-Plus — The Communist Party of Tajikistan (CPT) is expected to print 40,000 copies of its Russian-language newspaper

Communist Tadzhikistana

(Communist of Tajikistan) on the eve of the 2015 parliamentary election scheduled for March 1.

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Communist Tadzhikistana

has not been published regularly for financial reasons and it its last edition with circulation of a 5,000 was published two months ago,” CPT Secretary Ismoil Talbakov, who is also deputy of the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower house of parliament), told Asia-plus in an interview.

According to him, the newspaper’s pre-election edition will contain the part program and materials about candidates nominated by the party to the parliament.

Talbakov also noted that the CPT had printed 5,000 agitation posters and 3,000 booklets for the upcoming parliamentary elections.  

Founded in 1918, the Communist Party of Tajikistan was registered in 1991.  According to some sources, the party now has more than 45,000 members.  Shodi Shabdolov is leader of the party.