By empty (12/7/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan\'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed a note to the Russian Embassy in Dushanbe on 6 December expressing concern over a 5 December report on Russia\'s state-controlled Rossiya network, Tajik TV reported. Calling the report part of \"an intentional anti-Tajik campaign in the Russian media,\" the note disputed the television report\'s suggestion that the transfer of the Tajik-Afghan border to Tajik jurisdiction will harm drug interdiction efforts. Tajik television also reported on 6 December that Aleksandr Kondratev, spokesman for Russia\'s Federal Border Service in Tajikistan, stated that the Rossiya report misrepresented the state of cooperation between Russian and Tajik border guards.
Tajikistan\'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs conveyed a note to the Russian Embassy in Dushanbe on 6 December expressing concern over a 5 December report on Russia\'s state-controlled Rossiya network, Tajik TV reported. Calling the report part of \"an intentional anti-Tajik campaign in the Russian media,\" the note disputed the television report\'s suggestion that the transfer of the Tajik-Afghan border to Tajik jurisdiction will harm drug interdiction efforts. Tajik television also reported on 6 December that Aleksandr Kondratev, spokesman for Russia\'s Federal Border Service in Tajikistan, stated that the Rossiya report misrepresented the state of cooperation between Russian and Tajik border guards. Kondratev asked that the journalists responsible for the report be stripped of their accreditation and said that the Federal Security Service will make a special statement to the Rossiya network. (RFE/RL)