November 1                   - President Emomali Rahmon and His Highness the Aga Khan, founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), inaugurated the Dushanbe Serena Hotel.

November 1-2                - Mr. Nikolai Bordyuzha, Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), visited Tajikistan.  The CSTO secretary-general held talks with a number of high-ranking Tajik officials to discuss cooperation within the framework of the Organization and other issues being of mutual interest.

November 1-5                - A group of members of the Bundestag (Germany’s lower house of parliament), led by Ms. Angelika Graf, member of the Bundestag and deputy spokeswoman on human rights and humanitarian aid for the Social Democratic group in the Bundestag, visited Tajikistan.

November 2                   - The lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of the Tajik parliament approved the national budget for 2012.  The revenue part of the national budget for 2012 will stand at 10.16 billion somoni (equivalent to more than 2.1 billion U.S. dollars) and the expenditure part is expected to stand at 10.34 billion somoni (some 2.2 billion U.S. dollars);

- The Sughd regional court sentenced three people convicted of membership in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) to jail terms ranging from eight to nine years.  The judge ordered that the three men should be placed in a maximum security prison after finding them guilty of establishing and participating in a criminal group.

November 3                   - The Coalition of NGOs Against Torture called on the government to investigate the death of a suspect allegedly tortured in police detention.  The Coalition said that on October 19, police in Dushanbe''s Shohmansour district arrested Bahromiddin Shodiyev on suspicion of theft.  The following day, he was taken comatose to a hospital, where he underwent surgery.  Shodiyev died 10 days later in hospital of his injuries.

November 4                   - The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovic, met in Dushanbe with Tajik authorities and she offered them assistance and expertise of her Office to promote media pluralism and reform legislation.  During her visit Mijatović met with Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi, Interior Minister Abdurahim Qahhorov, members of the Parliament Olim Salimzoda and Akramsho Felaliyev, the Head of the Committee for TV and Radio-broadcasting the Government of Tajikistan Asadullo Rahmonov, the Head of Tajik Communication Service Beg Zuhurov, media non-governmental organizations and journalists.

November 4-5                - The 5th international education fair was held in Dushanbe.

November 5                   - Three Tajik nationals were killed as a fire broke out at a chemical plant in the Russian city of Podolsk.

November 6                  - Tajikistan marked Qurbon (Festival of Sacrifice), or Eid al-Adha in Arabic;

- Tajikistan marked Constitution Day.

November 7                   - Two residents of the Kuhistoni Mastchoh district in Sughd province and their livestock were killed by an avalanche in the Obburbon area.

November 8                   - The Qurghon Teppa city court sentenced two pilots working for Rolkan Investment Ltd to 8 ½ years in prison for border violations and smuggling.  Russian Vladimir Sadovnichiy and Estonian national Aleksey Rudenko were sentenced to 10 1/2 years each but that the sentences were reduced under an amnesty.  They were detained after landing at the Qurghon Teppa airport in March with their two aircraft on a flight from Afghanistan, where they had been doing humanitarian work, bound for Russia.  After a spare engine was found on one of the planes, the pilots were accused of smuggling and the two aircraft were seized.

November 9                   - The Supreme Court sentenced 28 people to jail for supporting a terrorist group that was behind the September 19, 2010 attack on military convoy in the Kamarob Gorge in the Rasht district in which at least 26 soldiers were killed in an ambush.  Seven defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment and twenty-one others received sentences ranging from two to 30 years.

November 10                 - Prosecutor-General Sherkhon Salimzoda revealed at a news conference in Dushanbe the two pilots working for Rolkan Investment Ltd  ignored warnings from Tajikistan''s air traffic controllers and entered Tajik airspace illegally.  Salimzoda said Sadovnichiy asked Tajik air traffic controllers seven times for permission to enter Tajikistan''s airspace and was refused every time. He said Sadovnichiy then asked for permission for an emergency landing, even at the risk the planes would be impounded.  Salimzoda said that before the two planes took off, Afghan government officials informed Tajikistan that they had false registration numbers and were not registered in any country. They also did not have log books or air safety certificates.  According to him, the investigation established that the two aircraft were removed in 2008 from the list of aircraft registered in Georgia and since then have been based in Afghanistan.  He said that according to Afghan aviation authorities, the planes have not been inspected for the past three years and are no longer licensed to fly.

November 11                 Two pilots convicted in Tajikistan filed appeal against verdict passed on them by the Qurghon Teppa city court.

November 12-16            - The fourth regional forum titled “Digital Youth of Central Asia (DYCA)” took place in Dushanbe.

November 13                 - Azam Ziyoev, 42, the last of the 25 convicts who escaped last year from a high-security prison in Dushanbe, was captured in the Panj district, Khatlon province.   Azam Ziyoev, a brother of slain former Emergency Situations Minister Mirzo Ziyoev.  

November 15                 - One person was killed and two others were injured as a rockfall occurred in the Vanj district, Gorno Badakhshan.  The tragedy took place in the Khekhik-Khumroghi area;

- The Khatlon prosecutor’s officially challenged the Qurghon Teppa city court’s verdict passed on two pilots working with Rolkan Investment Ltd, calling for the sentence to be reduced.

November 18                 - Tajik Foreign Minister Hamrokhon Zarifi and U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan Ken Gross signed the “Joint Action Plan between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Tajikistan on Combating Smuggling of Nuclear and Radioactive Materials.”  The agreement expresses the commitment of the two governments to collaborate on enhancing Tajikistan''s capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond effectively to attempts to smuggle nuclear or radioactive materials.

November 22                 - The appeals commission of the Khatlon regional court reviewed the sentences passed on Russian pilot Vladimir Sadovnichiy and his Estonian colleague Aleksey Rudenko by the Qurghon Teppa city court n November 8.   The appeals commission overturned the November 8 verdict.  In a ruling handed down at the Khatlon regional court, the sentences, in accordance with a recent Tajik amnesty, were reduced to two years, six months and ten days.  With the subtraction of two years under the amnesty, and six months for time served, the immediate release of the pilots was secured and Sadovnichiy and Rudenko were released in the courtroom.

November 24                 - Tajikistan marked National Flag Day.

November 25                 - Military exercises were conducted in three garrisons of the Russian military base in Tajikistan.  The exercises, comprising units from the garrisons, included simulated combat operation against terrorists aiming to wreck the holding of the forthcoming elections as well as attempting to commit terrorist acts and taking hostages.  In all, more than 150 military personnel along with some 20 armored vehicles were involved in the exercises.  

November 28                 - The amnesty declared on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Tajikistan’s was completed and more than 4,300, including 196 women and 153 minors, were released under this amnesty and some 5,000 other prisoners had their prison terms cut.