{"id":41659,"date":"2022-05-18T01:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=41659"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:17:13","slug":"common-aerial-defence-between-russia-and-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tajikistan\/common-aerial-defence-between-russia-and-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Common aerial defence between Russia and Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On April 27 of this year, the Russian Minister of Defence announced the creation of a joint aerial defence system between Russia and Tajikistan. This decision is driven by the deterioration of the situation of its neighbouring countries, such as Afghanistan.<\/strong><strong>This article was originally published on Novastan\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/fr\/tadjikistan\/une-defense-aerienne-commune-entre-la-russie-et-le-tadjikistan\/\">French website<\/a> on 4 May 2021.<\/strong>\n\nThe military cooperation between Russia and Tajikistan is growing stronger. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergei_Shoigu\">Sergei Shoigu<\/a>, Russia\u2019s Minister of Defence, announced on April 27 that an aerial defence system shared between Russia and Tajikistan is in the making. The decision was taken in Dushanbe, on the occasion of meetings with his Tajik counterpart, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sherali_Mirzo\">Sherali Mirzo<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hp-newsletter col-span-3 lg:col-span-1 flex flex-col bg-primary-100 border-t-8 border-secondary-500 rounded-lg justify-center items-center lg:items-stretch px-6 py-6 gap-4 box-border\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"flex\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"enveloppe\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"far fa-envelope text-5xl text-secondary-300\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"formulaire_nl\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"font-bold text-xl block\">The whole of Central Asia in your inbox\n<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our free weekly newsletter\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<form class=\"flex w-3\/4 lg:w-full\" action=\"https:\/\/us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=6a15a2256d412b041fdec39e8&amp;id=d479236523\" method=\"post\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" target=\"_blank\" novalidate=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<input class=\"flex-grow py-2 px-3 border border-primary-300 rounded-l\" type=\"email\" placeholder=\"Email\" name=\"EMAIL\" id=\"mce-EMAIL\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"bg-secondary-500 py-2 px-3 text-white rounded-r-md border border-secondary-500\" type=\"submit\" value=\"\" name=\"subscribe\">Register<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/form>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"underline text-secondary-700\">Click here for the latest issue\n<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><!-- newsletter -->\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nAs <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/armiya-i-opk\/11251545\">TASS, the Russian press agency reported<\/a>, Sergei Shoigu elucidated on the aims and reasons of such an endeavour. He declared: <em>\u201cIn order to increase the reliability of the protection of our state\u2019s airspace, we came up with an agreement regarding the creation of a regional joint aerial defence system between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan\u201d<\/em>, before putting forward the signature of this agreement at the end of the meeting.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A security issue for Tajikistan <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThe growing threat of the situation in Afghanistan pushed to the realisation of such a project. The Russian Minister of Defence explained that <em>\u201cIn the midst of the degradation of Afghanistan\u2019s condition, we plan on repelling any possible threats\u201d<\/em>. He then added, <em>\u201cWe pay increased attention to a bilateral communication regarding defence, as well as to the functioning of the Russian 201st military base.\u201d. <\/em>The 201st military base is the main Russian installation on Tajik\u2019s soil.\n\n<strong>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tajikistan\/hardening-positions-on-afghanistan-following-summit-in-dushanbe\/\">Hardening Positions on Afghanistan following Summit in Dushanbe<\/a><\/strong>\n\nTajikistan should not only be worried about the Afghan threat, since the country also has thorny relations with Kyrgyzstan. Deadly struggles between Tajiks and Kyrgyz groups are all too common,<a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tajikistan\/what-are-the-underlying-reasons-for-the-deadly-kyrgyz-tajik-border-clashes\/\"> the latest, dating from the 28th of April<\/a>, claimed over 30 Kyrgyz and 10 Tajik lives. This is a twofold challenge for Tajikistan: the country has everything to gain by reinforcing its security.\n\nThe Russian Minister of Defence also stated that Russia and Tajikistan are working on the <em>\u201cquestions of practical interactions during exercises\u201d. <\/em>Indeed, from April 19 to 23, Russian and Tajik troops carried out a large-scale, joint military exercise, as reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/armiya-i-opk\/11251545\">TASS<\/a>.\n\nIn total, 50,000 soldiers have been mobilized, and administrative heads of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khatlon_Region\">Khatlon region<\/a> (south-east of Tajikistan) took part in the operation. The latter aimed at reproducing the collapse of a border where a hypothetical enemy would invade Tajikistan, hence reflecting the country&#8217;s concerns regarding its security.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Russian-Tajik military cooperation <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\nSergei Shoigu has also declared that Russia is ready to increase the number of Tajik soldiers within Russian Military Universities and is expecting the participation of Tajik\u2019s military contingent during strategic manoeuvres West-2021. The name of the operation, coined by Russian general <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valery_Gerasimov\">Valery Gerasimov<\/a>, designates the large-scale Russian-Belarusian military exercises scheduled for September 2021, as reported by the Russian journal <a href=\"https:\/\/rg.ru\/2021\/03\/31\/v-genshtabe-nazvali-cel-griadushchih-rossijsko-belorusskih-uchenij-zapad-2021.html\">Rossiskaya Gazeta<\/a>.\n\nIn keeping with the military partnership with Tajikistan, Russia provides the latter with weapons and equipment as well as free training for the students enrolled in Russian military universities, as detailed by Sergue\u00ef Cho\u00efgou. \u201c<em>Over 5% of Tajik soldiers are currently being trained in Russia, and up to a thousand are being trained each year at the 20th Russian military base. We are expecting to increase the number of recruits\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>An old-established Russian involvement<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThis is actually not the first proposal for a military partnership between Russia and Tajikistan. On September 12, 2020, a decree enacting the creation of a joint military aerial defence system had already been agreed upon by <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emomali_Rahmon\">Emomali Rahmon<\/a>, President of Tajikistan, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/asiaplustj.info\/en\/news\/tajikistan\/security\/20200922\/tajikistan-and-russia-to-create-a-joint-air-defense-system\">Asia Plus, an independent Tajik media.<\/a> Unlike the agreement announced on the 27th of April, this one is part of the unified air defence system of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States\">Commonwealth of Independent States<\/a>, of which all Central Asian countries are members.\n\n<strong>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tajikistan\/central-asia-and-russia-an-ever-changing-relationship\/\">Central Asia and Russia: an ever-changing relationship<\/a><\/strong>\n\nRussia&#8217;s involvement in Central Asia&#8217;s military sector is expanding. On 26 May 2020, Russia offered Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan the role of a mediator to resolve the frontier dispute. Russia also <a href=\"https:\/\/tengrinews.kz\/kazakhstan_news\/kazahstan-rossiya-podpisali-dogovor-voennom-sotrudnichestve-417291\/\">signed an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; military cooperation agreement<\/a> with Kazakhstan in October 2020.\n\nYet, <a href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tajikistan\/chinas-military-expansion-in-tajikistan\/\">Russia is competing with China<\/a> in the development of Tajikistan. The Middle Empire operates several gold mines on Tajik\u2019s soil, which benefits both countries, although <a href=\"https:\/\/fergana.site\/articles\/118341\/\">the ledge is running out<\/a>. Besides this, the construction of a Chinese airport on Tajik\u2019 border was initiated in April 2020. It was also revealed, in 2019, that China has a secret military base in the country.\n\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Leonard Dillies\nEditor of Novastan<\/strong>\n<p><em>For more news and analysis from Central Asia, follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Novastan_Eng\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Novastan.org\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/novastan\">Telegram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/fondation-novastan\/\">Linkedin<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/novastanorg\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 27 of this year, the Russian Minister of Defence announced the creation of a joint aerial defence system between Russia and Tajikistan. This decision is driven by the deterioration of the situation of its neighbouring countries, such as Afghanistan.This article was originally published on Novastan\u2019s&nbsp;French website on 4 May 2021. The military cooperation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1199,"featured_media":41662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[406,4555,4522,3982,3979],"coauthors":[4193],"class_list":["post-41659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tajikistan","tag-afghanistan","tag-defence","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-tajikistan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45811,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41659\/revisions\/45811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41659"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=41659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}