Russia allocates more than 413 million rubles for anti-drug program in Tajikistan
Russia will allocate more than 413 million rubles (approximately 5.46 $ million) to support a three-year program aimed at combating drug trafficking in Tajikistan between 2026 and 2028.
The agreement was signed between Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President.
According to the Russian Embassy in Dushanbe, the signing ceremony was held remotely. The document had previously been signed in Moscow by Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and in Dushanbe by DCA Director Zafar Samad.
Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Semyon Grigoriyev also took part in the ceremony.
The agreement provides for a comprehensive assistance program designed to strengthen the Tajik anti-drug agency’s material and technical resources, enhance its institutional capacity, improve mechanisms for combating drug-related crime, and expand practical cooperation between the relevant agencies of the two countries.
The three-year initiative marks the next phase of Russian-Tajik cooperation in the fields of security and the fight against the illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their precursors.
The previous cooperation program, which covered 2023–2025, received approximately 250 million rubles in Russian funding.
Tajikistan’s law enforcement and security agencies seized 5,280 kilograms of narcotics in 2025, an increase of 898.8 kilograms, or 21%, compared with 2024.
Of the total amount seized, 2,742 kilograms were intercepted along the Tajik-Afghan border, up from 1,824 kilograms a year earlier.
Seizures of psychotropic substances also rose sharply, reaching 253.4 kilograms—nearly double the 2024 figure. Methamphetamine accounted for 247 kilograms, or 97%, of the total. Compared with the previous year, methamphetamine seizures increased by 141 kilograms, or 2.3 times.
Authorities also reported a significant rise in armed confrontations with drug traffickers along the Afghan border.
In 2025, security forces engaged in 17 armed clashes, compared with six incidents in 2024. During those operations, 10 Afghan nationals identified as drug traffickers were killed, up from three the previous year.
Over the course of the year, Tajik law enforcement agencies dismantled 44 criminal groups involved in drug trafficking, comprising 88 individuals. In comparison, 32 such groups were dismantled in 2024.
The Drug Control Agency investigated 132 criminal cases involving 180 defendants and referred them to court, compared with 84 cases in the previous year.
Russia will allocate more than 413 million rubles (approximately 5.46 $ million) to support a three-year program aimed at combating drug trafficking in Tajikistan between 2026 and 2028.
The agreement was signed between Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Tajikistan’s Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President.
According to the Russian Embassy in Dushanbe, the signing ceremony was held remotely. The document had previously been signed in Moscow by Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev and in Dushanbe by DCA Director Zafar Samad.
Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Semyon Grigoriyev also took part in the ceremony.
The agreement provides for a comprehensive assistance program designed to strengthen the Tajik anti-drug agency’s material and technical resources, enhance its institutional capacity, improve mechanisms for combating drug-related crime, and expand practical cooperation between the relevant agencies of the two countries.
The three-year initiative marks the next phase of Russian-Tajik cooperation in the fields of security and the fight against the illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their precursors.
The previous cooperation program, which covered 2023–2025, received approximately 250 million rubles in Russian funding.
Tajikistan’s law enforcement and security agencies seized 5,280 kilograms of narcotics in 2025, an increase of 898.8 kilograms, or 21%, compared with 2024.
Of the total amount seized, 2,742 kilograms were intercepted along the Tajik-Afghan border, up from 1,824 kilograms a year earlier.
Seizures of psychotropic substances also rose sharply, reaching 253.4 kilograms—nearly double the 2024 figure. Methamphetamine accounted for 247 kilograms, or 97%, of the total. Compared with the previous year, methamphetamine seizures increased by 141 kilograms, or 2.3 times.
Authorities also reported a significant rise in armed confrontations with drug traffickers along the Afghan border.
In 2025, security forces engaged in 17 armed clashes, compared with six incidents in 2024. During those operations, 10 Afghan nationals identified as drug traffickers were killed, up from three the previous year.
Over the course of the year, Tajik law enforcement agencies dismantled 44 criminal groups involved in drug trafficking, comprising 88 individuals. In comparison, 32 such groups were dismantled in 2024.
The Drug Control Agency investigated 132 criminal cases involving 180 defendants and referred them to court, compared with 84 cases in the previous year.
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