[Right Scoop via FOX] It was announced today that the Biden administration will help Tajikistan secure its border with Afghanistan, which is not sitting well with many in the US:
FOX NEWS — The United States is helping Tajikistan secure a portion of its border with Afghanistan to help combat security threats in the region since the U.S. troop withdrawal from Kabul Monday, despite the ongoing crisis at the U.S. border that’s seeing thousands of migrants pour into the country every day.
The U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe has launched a project to construct new facilities for a Border Service detachment along the Tajik-Afghan-Uzbek border, allowing Tajikistan’s border troops to deploy more quickly in response to threats in the region, the embassy said in a press release Wednesday.
"The United States and Tajikistan enjoy strong security cooperation, and this border detachment project is just another example of our shared commitment to the security and sovereignty of Tajikistan and Central Asia," Ambassador John Pommersheim said in a statement.
The project is scheduled to break ground in early 2022. When completed, the new facility will provide housing for Tajikistan’s border troops and their family members, the release said.
Border agents have spoken out about this calling it a slap in the face:
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[Korrespondent] In the annexed Crimea in Simferopol, near the building of the Russian FSB, more than 40 people were detained trying to find out the whereabouts of five Crimean Tatars taken away by security forces. This was announced by the Crimean Solidarity on Saturday, September 4.
"Near the FSB building on Franko Street in Simferopol, 40 people were detained. Among them are both men and women," the message on the Facebook page says.
In addition, two civilian journalists, Ayder Kadyrov and Nuri Abdurashitov, working for the Crimean Solidarity and Grani.ru were detained.
The chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov said on Facebook that among the detainees were the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Kurultay of the Crimean Tatar people and a member of the Mejlis Lemmar Yunusov.
Earlier on Saturday, it became known that after searches in Crimea, five Crimean Tatars were taken away in an unknown direction : Eldar Odamanov, Nariman Dzhelyalov, Aziz Akhtemov, Asan Akhtemov and Shevket Useinov.
Relatives and lawyers are making attempts to find the missing, but to date, the whereabouts of none of the detainees is known.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expressed a strong protest in connection with the next illegal searches and detentions in Crimea.
And President Vladimir Zelensky regards the searches and detentions in Crimea as a reaction of the Russian Federation to the start of the Crimean platform. He demanded the release of the detainees.
Looks like Putin's federal government is cleaning house in a prelude to the September 19th Duma elections.
[REGNUM] The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev dismissed three generals from the Ministry of Internal Affairs at once. Russian State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein (United Russia) linked the personnel reshuffle with the recent arrest of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kamchatka Territory, Mikhail Kiselyov, who is accused of accepting a bribe.
"In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they decided to 'tighten the screws,'" the deputy wrote on August 10 in his telegram channel.
Thus, the deputy head of the Moscow MIA Department, Lieutenant-General Andrey Ponorets, the head of the MIA Administration of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow, Police Major General Yuri Demin, and the Deputy Head of the Department of Civil Service and Personnel (DGSK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Major General Vitaly Krasnov, were dismissed from the post.
According to Khinshtein, Ponorets and Demin in 2017 vouched for Kiselev when he was included in the federal personnel reserve.
"True, it is not clear whether only these generals are responsible for Kiselev's advancement?" - said the deputy.
As reported by IA REGNUM , the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev on Tuesday, August 3, introduced the new chief to the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Kamchatka. Ivan Kokukhin was appointed to this position by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin
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[Right Scoop via FOX] It was announced today that the Biden administration will help Tajikistan secure its border with Afghanistan, which is not sitting well with many in the US:
