Tajik foreign minister says no accreditation for RT in Tajikistan

DUSHANBE, February 5, 2016, Asia-Plus – Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service reports that Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov said yesterday that reporters from Kremlin-funded media outlet RT , formerly known as Russia Today , have not been given permission to operate in his country. RT opened a bureau in Dushanbe in 2014, but operations ceased soon […]

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DUSHANBE, February 5, 2016, Asia-Plus –

Radio Liberty’s Tajik Service

reports that Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov said yesterday that reporters from Kremlin-funded media outlet

RT

, formerly known as

Russia Today

, have not been given permission to operate in his country.


RT

opened a bureau in Dushanbe in 2014, but operations ceased soon afterward after accreditation was refused.

Aslov did not elaborate on why accreditation was not granted.

Meanwhile, analysts say the Tajik government is concerned by the influence of Russian propaganda, although other state-funded Russian media outlets do have correspondents in Tajikistan.

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