“Russia remains our leading trade and economic partner; over the five months of this year, mutual trade has grown by almost 50%,” the head of Tajikistan said, TASS quoted him as saying.
Rahmon added that almost 80 regions of Russia have business and other ties with Tajikistan.
Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Igor Lyakin-Frolov said that bilateral relations between Moscow and Dushanbe are on such a rise, which has never been before: trade in 2021 amounted to $1.3 billion, which is a record high, and the volume of direct investment in its turn, reached $1.7 billion.
On June 28, the Russian leader arrived in Dushanbe, where he is holding a meeting with Emomali Rahmon.