DUSHANBE, May 14, Asia-Plus  -- The Friendship race dedicated to the 63 rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the 90th anniversary of the formation of Border Guards of the Russian Federation will arrive in Tajikistan on May 19, Asia-Plus has learned at the public relations center within the State Committee for National Security (GKNB).

By resolution adopted at a session of the council of the CIS border troops commanders the race was launched on February 15 and it is going along borders of the former Soviet Union republics.  

“On May 19, Kyrgyz border guards will hand over the Race’s symbols – cup and cartridge with handful of earth – to their Tajik and Russian colleagues at the border crossing checkpoint Qizil-Art in GBAO-‘s Murgab district,” said the source at the public relations center.  “In Tajikistan, The Friendship Race will go along the Tajik-Afghan border and will arrive in Dushanbe on May 25.” 

The Friendship Race will be finished in Moscow on May 28, which is a day to mark the formation of the Russian Border Guards, the source said.  Tajik border troops mark their professional holiday on May 28 as well.  

            We will recall that the first Friendship Race was held in the 1960s.  The cartridge with pinch of the Brest earth was carried along the border of the Soviet Union.