“More than anything, it infuriates me that people, instead of just expressing their opinion, or turning on their own brains, or analyzing the situation, or generating their own content, pound water in a mortar and pour from empty to empty,” he said .

According to him, the news about Morgenstern's Telegram channel and the US grant for Tajik bloggers "remarkably similar to each other and intertwined."

Earlier it was reported that the US State Department intends to launch in 2022 a program to develop democratic institutions and civil society in Tajikistan.

It will include several areas, including the training of bloggers and journalists.