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2018-07-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Tajikistan, Russia begin joint anti-Taliban military drills near Afghan border

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#1 December 09, 2010
Russian border guards are up for returning to the Tajik-Afghan border if Tajikistan were to ask them to come back. According to Maksim Peshkov, director of the CIS department at the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russia's ex-ambassador to Tajikistan, the return of the Russian Border Guards Service to safeguard Tajikistan's southern borders has been discussed between the two countries' authorities.

Russian border guards were stationed alongside the Tajik border until 2006, when the task of guarding the border was handed over to their Tajik counterparts. A small group of Russian experts still remain there as consultants to the Tajik border services. Tajikistan shares a 1,200 kilometer border with Afghanistan, which is considered a major transit route for Afghan opium to Central Asia, and on to Russia and Europe.

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