DUSHANBE, May 5, 2014, Asia-Plus — By government’s decree all branches of Tajikistan’s Armed Forces, special services and law enforcement agencies will make shift to uniforms established for them within the next three years, Faridoun Mahmadaliyev, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), said Monday afternoon.
According to him, a ceremonial demonstration of camouflage and service uniform of officers of the MoD Central Office and General Staff of the Armed Forces of the country took place on May 4.
Tajikistan”s National Army now consists of Air and Air Defense Forces, Land Forces and Mobile Forces. The Mobile Force of Tajik Army was founded in 2005 without increase in a total strength of the country’s armed forces. Air and Air-Defense Forces were also united in 2005. Tajikistan’s armed forces also include National Guard and Security Forces (internal and border troops).
Unlike the other former Soviet states of Central Asia, Tajikistan did not form armed forces based upon former Soviet units on its territory. Instead, the Russian Ministry of Defense took control of the Dushanbe-based 201st Motor Rifle Division; actually control simply shifted from the former district headquarters in Tashkent, which was in now-independent Uzbekistan, to Moscow.
