Servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan have provided humanitarian aid to residents of the village of Esambai in Roudaki district.
According to the Russian military base press center, the assistance included warm clothes and food products.
Each of families in the village has reportedly received a food pack including meat, wheat flour, juice, cereals, vegetable oil, butter and condensed milk.
Children attending school have received notebooks, felt-tip pens, ballpoint pens, play dough, colored pencils, sketchbooks and paints for drawing.
The smallest family members were pleased with sweet gifts and toys.
Members of families of servicemen and the women’s council of the base have also participated in the charity event, the military base press center said.
The Esambai village is located some 80 kilometers from Dushanbe.
The Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan is Russia's largest non-naval military facility outside the country. It was officially opened in Tajikistan in 2004 under a previous agreement, which was signed in 1993, and hosts Russia’s largest military contingent deployed abroad.
A total of some 7,000 Russian troops are now stationed at two military facilities collectively known as the 201st military base – in Dushanbe and Bokhtar (formerly Qurghon Teppa, some 100 kilometers from Dushanbe.
