Overview

• Negotiations moved from a private meeting to an expanded format with full delegations in Dushanbe.
• The sides plan to sign about 15 documents plus a joint statement on deepening strategic partnership and alliance ties.
• The package spans trade, migration, information technology, transport, education and healthcare, with energy specifically noted by Putin.
• Moscow says the work proceeds under the 1993 Treaty of Friendship, building on a protocol from Tajikistan’s April 23 visit to Moscow.
• Russia brought a delegation of more than 20 senior officials and state-company heads, and Putin said both teams came well prepared.