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full screen Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in Dushanbe in June 2022. File photo. Photo: Alexander Shcherbak/Sputnik/Kremlin Via AP/TT
Several people in Tajikistan are said to have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in last week’s terrorist attack in Moscow.
Nine people have been arrested, according to consistent sources in international media and state-run channels in Russia.
The arrests are said to have taken place in a suburb of the capital Dushanbe and the suspicions are said to consist of having “contacts” with the main suspected terrorists or the extremist movement IS.
The four main suspects in custody in Moscow are originally from Tajikistan, a heavily governed and traditionally pro-Russia country in Central Asia. Many of its residents have emigrated to work in Russia. IS has long been reported to also recruit many Tajiks.