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Russia will spend up to $200 million to modernise Tajikistan’s army by 2025 in exchange for maintaining a military base in the strategically important country.

Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rakhmon has promised that, in the autumn, his parliament will ratify an agreement to extend the term of a Russian military base there. Dushanbe had been dragging its feet over the ratification in the hope of getting help with re-equipping its army ahead of the NATO coalition forces’ pullout from neighbouring Afghanistan, according to an expert.
Vladimir Putin has asked defence minister Sergei Shoigu to assess the risks stemming from the coalition forces’ pullout from Afghanistan (scheduled for late 2014
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