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Dushanbe and Moscow sign a Digmai tailings protocol and target 2.5 times the trade by 2030

The 22nd session of the Russia-Tajikistan intergovernmental commission in Dushanbe, chaired by Prime Minister Kohir Rasulzoda and Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, signed a protocol amending the Rosatom roadmap on the Digmai tailings and set a goal of multiplying trade 2.5 times by 2030 from $2.47 billion last year, Avesta and TASS reported on Thursday. Rahmon received Khusnullin, and oil-product supplies were among the subjects.

By CAW Staff1 October 2026
The cracked grey crust of a dry tailings pond with a single survey stake and an amber ribbon.

The commission's one named document is a protocol about surveys and a feasibility study, with no sum beside it. It amends the roadmap between the state corporation Rosatom and Tajikistan's Ministry of Industry and New Technologies and covers pre-project radiation surveys of the Digmai tailings and an updated feasibility study of their rehabilitation, Avesta reported at 16:31 Dushanbe time.

TASS's account, carried by Alta, gives the numbers. Trade exceeded $2.47 billion in 2025 and reached almost $1.68 billion in January to August 2026, 16.4% more than a year earlier, Russia holds about 23% of Tajikistan's foreign trade, and the goal set at the session is to multiply the volume 2.5 times by 2030. The projects named are a school for gifted children and the construction of the Mayakovsky theatre in Dushanbe, and a smart-city, AI and cybersecurity line.

The commission's one named document is a protocol about surveys and a feasibility study, with no sum beside it.

Rahmon received Khusnullin in the morning. The 2 discussed industry, energy, infrastructure, agriculture and the digital economy, transport and logistics links, joint ventures, investment projects, oil-product supplies to Tajikistan and large infrastructure projects, Interfax reported at 10:53 Moscow time. "We highly value Tajik-Russian relations of strategic partnership and alliance," the president said in the agency's account.

The same morning Rahmon's government session ordered fuel and food reserves for the winter of 2026 to 2027 and the completion of the cotton, fruit and vegetable harvest, Avesta reported at 10:56. Russia's producers' diesel export ban runs to 31 October under resolution 1252, with intergovernmental balances as the exception, and Dushanbe's pump price for diesel fell 6% in September as Russian deliveries tripled, while petrol rose 7.4%.

What changes next: the protocol's survey work on Digmai has no date in either account, and the commission's own protocol, with any migration or customs line, is unpublished. Trade at 2.5 times the 2025 figure would be about $6.2 billion a year by 2030, CAW's arithmetic from TASS's base.

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