DUSHANBE, February 20, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- 36 poling stations have bees et up in the CIS and far abroad countries to allow Tajik citizens residing abroad to vote, Muhibullo Dadajonov, head of office of the central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER), said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

According to him, eight polling stations have been set up in the Russian cities of Moscow St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Samara, Volgograd, Kemerovo, Perm, and Yekaterinburg.

“Two polling stations have been set up in the United States (at the Tajik Representative Office to the United Nations in New York and the Tajik Embassy in Washington) and two other polling stations have been set up in Afghanistan (in Kabul and Mazar-i Sharif),” said Dadajonov, “Besides, polling stations have been set up at the Tajik embassies in Almaty, Ankara, Beijing, Berlin, Bishkek, Brussels, Islamabad, Minsk, Tashkent, Tehran, etc.”

According to official data, some 1 million Tajik nationals have left the country seeking better employment opportunities or for studying.