A new season of quarterly press conferences will start on 11 October. The President’s Office reminds that the ministries and other government bodies will present information on the outcomes of the third quarter at press conferences.

The Saint Petersburg city interior department disproved a report of the Russian media on a public affray, which was presented as an alleged fight between Tajik labor migrants and local residents in Priozers district of Leningrad province, Russian Federation.

Six feature films have been translated into Tajik language during the third quarter of 2007 by the State Committee on Radio and Television under the Tajik government 2007.

National Association of Independent Mass Media (NANSMIT), the Union of Tajik Journalists, Bureau on Human Rights and Legality, the Memorial Fund of Tajik Journalists, the Tajik Media Alliance, and the Public Unit «Khoma» came up with an initiative to reform the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan «On Printing and Other Mass Media».

Representatives of various media were not allowed to attend a public meeting held on 16 October in Khatlon province.

Representatives of various media were not allowed to attend a public meeting held on 16 October in Khatlon province.

A press conference scheduled for 16 October 2007 in Vose district was cancelled due to another public meeting in Kurgan-Tube city attended by the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon

Tajik Press Review, 4 October 2007

Tajik politicians complain that the popular Russian TV show “Nasha Russia” (“Our Russia”) defames the national dignity of Tajiks. Among the characters of the TV serial are two Tajik labor migrants have become an object of derision.

Mirek Topolanek, Prime Minister of Czech Republic insists on strengthening of international pressure on Russia.