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Tajikistan’s foreign minister on April 12 hit out at Russia’s apparent torturing of the mostly Tajik suspects in last month’s terrorist attack on an outer Moscow concert hall that took the lives of more than 140 people. Sirojiddin Muhriddin (above), speaking in Minsk at a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), also criticised what he described as a media campaign to slander Tajiks. His comments came amid more reports that Tajikistan—the economy of which is heavily reliant on remittances sent home by migrant workers employed in Russia—is seriously concerned by the number of Ta…

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