AKIPRESS.COM - Russia and Tajikistan are building up new technological chains in a number of areas, including the ones related to energy and mining of rare-earth metals, CEO of the Russian state-run corporation Rosatom Alexey Likhachev said, Tass reported.

"When working with industrial plants of Tajikistan, we are building up new technological chains in a number of other areas, related to energy, instrument-making, and probably rare-earth metals mining. Tajikistan is rich in rare-earths metals," Likhachev said.

Tajikistan takes a responsible approach towards the environmental future, the Rosatom CEO said. "These are activities on decontamination, on transfer of sites either to the green condition or for industrial use. Certainly, this removes a very large burden from the population and settlements on the whole," he added.