Russian propaganda has made a gift to the director of the Lenin State Farm in the Dangara District by publishing data on Russia’s investments in its “fraternal” post-imperial countries. Kazakhstan ranks first, Uzbekistan second, followed by Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Photo: Internet Tajikistan is not included in the table. Why? Despite Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan not […]
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Russian propaganda has made a gift to the director of the Lenin State Farm in the Dangara District by publishing data on Russia’s investments in its “fraternal” post-imperial countries. Kazakhstan ranks first, Uzbekistan second, followed by Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.
Photo: Internet
Tajikistan is not included in the table. Why? Despite Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan not being fully-fledged members of the CIS, they do not belong to the CSTO, which is essentially why the post-imperial organization was created – as an alternative to NATO. Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan also do not belong to the peculiar organization of the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC), which is supposed to regulate trade and adhere to Russian customs rules.
Armenia is also not a member of EurAsEC, but it has a privileged position; it is the custodian of Russian imperialism in the Caucasus, and its territory hosts the only Russian military base in the Caucasus, in Gyumri, which the Kremlin needs to counter NATO’s advance in Georgia and to contain NATO at the border with Turkey.
Tajikistan has a Russian military base that is very active; it was the organizer of the war in 1992, which resulted in the deaths of 150,000 people. However, it seems that Russia is satisfied with the fact that the Kremlin has established a personal dictatorship there under Emomali Sharifovich, who acts as a controller, a boss over the zone.
In return, the Kremlin has allowed him to be the sole owner of the territory seized with Russia’s help – to change laws and the Constitution at his discretion, to periodically disregard these very laws, to call himself a leader and various dictatorial epithets without any right to do so, to perform the Hajj, and to deal with believers who do not believe in him.
The situation in which Tajikistan’s economy finds itself resembles a criminal pool, where everything is subordinate to the boss; all economically viable and profitable remaining enterprises belong to Emomali Sharifovich’s family, his relatives, or close associates. According to data from the international human rights organization Transparency International, in the “fight against corruption” for 2020, Tajikistan ranked alongside Mozambique, Nigeria, Madagascar, Cameroon, and Iran, taking 149th place with 25 points out of a possible 100.
When everything in the country is literally being embezzled, even Russia is afraid to invest in such an “economy,” let alone other, more developed countries that are used to counting money rather than losing it to bribes and kickbacks.
The future of Tajikistan’s economy is bleak as long as Emomali Sharifovich’s family remains in power; its development requires educated specialists and economic freedom.
Recently, the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), established by Russia, in which Tajikistan has been a full member since June 2009, having invested $500,000 in the Bank’s capital, reported figures on investment projects. Six EDB projects in Tajikistan amount to only $51.4 million, which is 0.5% of the bank’s total investment volume. Seven projects of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development are worth only $215 million, or 4% of the total volume.
Tajikistan has found itself in a vicious circle from which neither Emomali Sharifovich nor his partners can escape – it would be good to stop stealing and bring legislation in line with international law, but who would then feed a family that knows how to do nothing else?
Photo: Internet