Border Guard Service of Russia wishes to suspend Russian-Tajikistan railway route

Central Asia and Eastern EuropeBorder Guard Service of Russia wishes to suspend Russian-Tajikistan railway route

Moscow: Border Guard Service of Russia wishes to suspend Russian-Tajikistan railway route claiming that this route has some security issues.  A report has been sent to the Ministry of Transport and Railways, reports Dispatch News Desk (DND) wire news agency. 

During the visiting session of the State Border Committee headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin at a railway station in the Astrakhan region Aksai been inspected train Dushanbe – Moscow. Experts have called it “a channel for drug delivery.”

“It worries us, the situation with drugs. Urgent need to suspend rail service with Tajikistan,” – said the deputy head of the FSB Border Service of the Russian Federation Vladimir Mochalov.

According to him, the complexity of the controls is that the citizens of Tajikistan is still allowed to enter the territory of the Russian national passports. National papers Tajiks do not have sufficient security level and can not be read by the Russian automatic monitoring systems, said V.Mochalov.

Rogozin said on the eve of that in 2013. People who come to Russia from the CIS, will be required to have a passport when crossing the border. In his opinion, should be stopped from entering the Russian Federation according to the documents, not subject to identification. First of all it concerns the rail link with Tajikistan.

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