DUSHANBE, April 26, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- On occasion of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the Dushanbe mayor’s office has allocated some one million somoni to provide extraordinary grants to 1,499 people.

Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the Dushanbe mayor’s office, said the veterans and invalids of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the spouses of the servicemen who died in that war, veterans of the Afghan war of 1979-1989, participants in Chernobyl Cleanup Operation and families of those who died in actions for restoration of the constitutional order in Tajikistan in the 1990s would receive an extraordinary grant of 450 somoni each.

In all, 260 veterans and invalids of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 now live in the Tajik capital.  In addition to their pensions, they also receive every month 150 somoni from the city’s budget, the spokesman said.