Speaking at a round table on 2 July in Dushanbe, Akbarali Sattorov, chairman of the Tajik Union of Journalists, said that the media community of Tajikistan is going to approach to the government with an appeal to support the Tajik media in the period of financial crisis. Sattorov also stressed the necessity of creating an anti-crisis journalistic headquarters.

Many newspapers in Khatlon province are published irregularly, mainly on the eve of important national events or celebrations. Most of the printing outlets in Khatlon belong to the government, and the authorities have stopped funding them.

The situation in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast is similar. For example, the Bomi Jakhon newspaper has not been published since last year.
The round table in Dushanbe was organized by the Tajik Union of Journalists and the NGO “Tajik Assistance Foundation”.

NANSMIT Monitoring Service