US Embassy in Tajikistan condemned by Tajik users for posting an anti-Russian note on Facebook
DUSHANBE, March 14 - Sangar, Talib Aliyev. The embassy post is titled "Russians risk arrest for protesting Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine" and was published on March 13, and the number of comments is about 120, most negative.
“Thousands of Russians in more than 140 cities across the country are risking their liberty to peacefully protest Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine.
“These new laws are part of Russia’s ruthless effort to suppress all dissent and make sure the population does not have access to any information that contradicts the Kremlin’s narrative about the invasion of Ukraine,” Hugh Williamson of Human Rights Watch said March 7", - said in the post.
In the comments under the post, you can see, from the demand to remove the beautiful flag of Tajikistan to the call to block the page of the embassy and the cessation of anti-Russian propaganda in Tajikistan, and in places, the actions of the United States in Afghanistan and the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also mentioned, and someone describes the United States " empire of lies.
Some Tajik users also call on the Foreign Ministry of Tajikistan to take action on such materials from the US diplomatic mission in Tajikistan.
“Dear US Embassy in Tajikistan. You write here about your activities in the Republic of Tajikistan, about your programs, visits to the Republic of Tajikistan, etc., and not about the Russian Federation! You will not send us to the Russian Federation. Your activity in RT is completely different. Or is it your task to promote hatred and hostility towards another state? What is the purpose of every time you post a negative about Russia? You are in Tajikistan, what does Russia have to do with it? Do not engage in Russophobia! Or did you also take up the resettlement program? Get on with your diplomatic work. The Russian Embassy in the Republic of Tajikistan does not post bad things about you, does it? It didn’t write how you fled Afghanistan and threw tens of millions of Afghans into the arms of terrorists, leaving them with all their weapons!”, writes one of the users.
Another described the note as "dancing on the bones", adding, "They have completely lost their conscience."
The US Embassy in Tajikistan has not yet responded to these comments. At least until the end of the preparation of this news, there was no answer.
Tajikistan and Russia are strategic partners. According to unofficial data, about 2 million Tajik citizens migrate to Russia in search of work, and the country accounts for about half of their gross domestic product ($3 to $4 billion a year).
One of the countries most affected by the war in Ukraine is Tajikistan. For example, the devaluation of the Russian ruble in Russia also affected hundreds of thousands of migrants and deprived the country's economy and population of millions of dollars.
The United States is Tajikistan's largest donor and has provided the country with about $1.5 billion in gratuitous aid since 1991.
