Situation in Tajikistan: civil unrest; danger of presence of Russian military border services.




Video chronicle: The military on the Russian-Tajik border move along the river in armored vehicles.
Border tower, outpost.
Sign with the inscription: "The state border of the USSR is sacred and inviolable." A helicopter in the sky gives a signal with identification flares.
Border guards.
A house with a bullet-hole in the roof.
There are traces of shells and bullets on the walls.
A tank.
Caught violators.
Wire fences along the border.
The question is raised about the advisability of the withdrawal of Russian border services from Tajikistan.
The participants in the discussion point to the difficult situation that has developed on the border and in Tajikistan itself.
They consider the reasons that preceded this: in particular, a change in leadership, ideology and regime in the country, the struggle for power between clans.
The question of the influence of Islamic fundamentalism is raised.
Video chronicle: Military actions on the border, filmed from a helicopter.
Mosque.
Muslims perform namaz.
Use of artillery, tanks, shooting from trenches.
Sirodjidin Nasretdinov talks about the contribution of the Russian people, who played a major role in the development of Tajikistan during the existence of the Soviet Union.
About attitudes towards Russians in Tajikistan.
Anatoly Adamashin advocates the presence of Russian troops on the border, points to the positive dynamics of the development of the situation in the region.
Adamishin Anatoly - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Nasretdinov Sirodjidin - Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Tajikistan in Moscow. Migranyan Andranik - political scientist. Atovullo Dodojon - Editor-in-chief of the independent newspaper "Charogi Ruz"
17.09.1993