Tajikistan presses Russia to probe assault on train

MOSCOW. Oct 29 (Interfax) - Tajikistan's embassy in Moscow has sent a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry, demanding an investigation into an assault by a group of unidentified individuals on a Tajikistan-bound train, an embassy spokesman said on Tuesday.

"There has never been anything like this in the practice of Russian-Tajik relations before," the spokesman, Muhammad Egamzod, told Interfax.