06 June 2004 19:34
Tajik Social Democrats to publish paper
The Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan is to launch a weekly beginning from June, the Tajik newspaper Vecherniy
Dushanbe reported on 4 June.
Quoting the deputy leader of the party, Shokirjon Hakimov, the report said the newspaper will be called "Social
Democrat" and come out in two languages - Tajik and Russian.
"The launching of the newspaper is in the first instance a tactical move made as part of the party's
strategy for the forthcoming (2005) parliamentary elections," the paper quoted Hakimov as saying.
(The report ran to about 120 words)
[Vecherniy Dushanbe] |
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