Asia-Plus is a privately owned independent

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based in

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

History and profile

Asia-Plus news agency was established in 1995 and started its activity in English and in

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in 1996. It is privately owned and the owner is the Asia Plus Media Group. The agency is based in Dushanbe and started a weekly paper, '' Asia Plus'' in 2000. It also publishes ''Tajikistan Economic Review'', a monthly, and ''Asia-Plus Blitz'', a newsletter published in weekdays. It has an independent political leaning. It has received funds from the

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. In June 2012, the website of the agency was cut allegedly by the Tajik authorities. A month later the authorities again banned the website in addition to those of Russia’s '' RIA Novosti news agency'' and ''

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s website in Russian.

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