The first issue of a new Tajik weekly “Konun va Jomea” (Law and Society) is published by the Ministry of Interior in Tajik and Russian languages

According to the resolution of the Tajik government issued in November 2007, the new weekly newspaper’s editing board is included in the staff of the Interior Ministry.

The first issue of “Konun and Jomea” is dedicated to the 83-rd anniversary of Tajikistan’s police. The issue also contains official information from the national government and a statement by the Ministry of Interior concerning the recent incident in Rasht valley of Tajikistan resulted in the death of Oleg Zakharchenko, commander of the Ministry’s special reaction brigade.

The weekly also contains a special “fiction page”, and a legal consultancy column for readers.

The newspapers will be published by the State printing house “Sharki Ozod”; the weekly number of copies will be 7,5 thousand.

Chief editor of the new weekly is lieutenant colonel Islom Nozimov. A well known Tajik journalist Tilloi Nekkadam also performs editorial functions in the newspaper.

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