The department reported that the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Rudenko accepted copies of the charity letters of the appointed ambassador of the Islamic emirate Afghanistan to the Russian Federation Gul Hassan. Moscow announced the “significant prospects” of interaction with the regime in the trade and economic direction with an emphasis on projects in the field of energy, transport, agriculture, infrastructure.
“We believe that the act of official recognition of the Islamic Emirate Government Afghanistan will give impetus to the development of productive bilateral cooperation of our countries in various fields,” the report said.
The Russian propaganda agency TASS published a photo, as they say, with the flag introduced by the Taliban first posted over the embassy in Moscow.
Context
The Taliban movement was created in 1994, in 1996-2001 it was in power in Afghanistan, and controlled most of the country. After the attacks on September 11, 2001 in the United States and the Taliban refusal to give the leader of Al-Qaeda, US Ben Laden’s terrorist group, American troops were introduced to Afghanistan. The Taliban government was overthrown.
In 2021, After the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban again seized power in the country.
In April 2025, Russia excluded the Taliban from the list of terrorist groups.
