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6 August 2008

Tajikistan: Olympics Blogwatch

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Sport

One of the major events in the world of sports is going to happen in Beijing during the coming month. Almost all the countries are proudly sending their sportsmen to...

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22 May 2008

Tajikistan: The power of gossip

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Politics, Economics & Business

Recently, the Uzbek website UzMetronom disseminated information about possible murder of Hasan Sadulloev, the bother-in-law of Tajik President Rahmon. Hasan is considered to be one of the wealthiest and powerful...

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14 May 2008

Tajikistan: Poor country's most expensive trial

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Development, Environment

The poorest country in Central Asia, Tajikistan initiated the most expensive trial in the history of British legal proceedings. Tajikistan will pay 120 million USD for the legal fees which...

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3 May 2008

Tajikistan: Electricity in Exchange of Salaries

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Environment, Politics

The mayor of Dushanbe and Chairman of the Tajik Parliament's Upper Chamber Mamadsaid Ubaidulloev proposed a strange way to raise funds for construction of Rogun hydropower station - one of...

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2 May 2008

Global: The price of food, the cost of despair

Written by John Liebhardt · Development, Environment

The crisis of skyrocketing food prices is affecting all economic groups in every corner of the world. Every day, it seems, high-priced food sends another country lurching through some crisis:...

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23 April 2008

Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan: Lenin's Birthday

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Governance, History

On April 22, Vladimir Lenin would have turned 138 - and quite a few Russophone bloggers still remember the date.

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16 April 2008

Tajikistan: Unjust Distribution of Wealth

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Labor, Politics

It is almost impossible to have a profitable business in Tajikistan if you follow all rules and regulations set by the state. People bitterly joke that the easiest way to...

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27 March 2008

Tajikistan: Politicized Navruz

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Freedom of Speech, Governance

Navruz is one of the main celebrations for Tajiks. This time — more than ever — it means end of one of the harshest winter in several decades. People could...

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13 March 2008

Tajikistan: Hunger to Replace Cold and Darkness

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Development, Environment

Tajikistan is a small country with big problems. The nation, particularly the rural population, is still suffering from energy crisis, but yet another crisis is going to embrace it very...

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25 February 2008

Tajikistan: Energy Crisis Is Not Enough to Lose Patience

Written by Vadim Sadonshoev · Development, Environment

The continuing energy crisis is, probably, the worst problem that Tajikistan ever faced since the end of civil war. Neweurasia reports that most of the population is barely surviving this...

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Updates about Tajikistan

28 June 2011

English

Tomyris says that Urinboy Usmonov, longtime local journalist for BBC Central Asian Service, was arrested in Tajikistan for suspicion membership in the Islamic Movement Hizb ut-Tahrir.

• Adil Nurmakov

26 April 2011

English

Christya Riedel writes about gender issues in Tajikistan and about difficulties that women are facing there - rules for weddings, violence, denied property rights after a divorce.

• Adil Nurmakov

1 April 2011

English

Christya Riedel reports that Russia has increased tariffs on oil and oil products exported to Tajikistan, putting the country's farmers at risk as they prepare for the spring planting season. Tajikistan receives 92.5% oil products from Russia.

• Adil Nurmakov

22 March 2011

English

TajikVoice reports that the Tajik President’s son Rustam Emomali, 23, was appointed to a newly created government post within the Customs Agency to tackle contraband and customs violations.

• Adil Nurmakov

7 March 2011

English

In an unexpected move, Tajikistan’s Supreme Court has commuted the sentences of 29 convicts originally sentenced on terrorism charges — and the decision, one of only two of its kind in the last five years, is very fishy, reports neweurasia’s Alpharabius. “But whatever the intention, the decision reeks of hypocrisy,” he writes.

• Adil Nurmakov

28 February 2011

English

Alpharabius reports on the plethora of new laws curtailing Islamic religious practice and the slew of house demolitions that all seem to point toward a government that’s simultaneously nervous and ambitious amidst rumored constitutional reform.

• Adil Nurmakov

14 February 2011

English

Nathan Hamm writes that one of the most notorious Tajik opposition commanders Ali Bedaki, who was reportedly killed in combat operations, as been noticed on a YouTube video that shows him being interrogated in the back of a vehicle. The Tajikistan government claims the video is a fake, but the insurgent's former comrade says it is not.

• Adil Nurmakov

English

Christya Riedel reports that Hikmatullo Saifullozoda, a 60 year old editor of the opposition newspaper Najot and a prominent member of the Tajikistan opposition, was brutally beaten by unidentified perpetrators near his home in the capital city Dushanbe.

• Adil Nurmakov

3 February 2011

Politics

Russia oppositional weekly Novaya Gazeta that also serves as an official partner of Wikileaks in the country reported on diplomatic cables from Tajikistan outlining a dirty geopolitical game that Russia allegedly plays in that post-Soviet republic.

• Vadim Isakov

15 January 2011

English

Alpharabius draws a bottomline under the last ear's historical multimillion lawsuit that had been brought against three newspapers in the Tajikistan’s Supreme Court. One of the publications has disappeared from the market, while the two others became less brave and more self-censored.

• Adil Nurmakov

Comments on "Tajikistan"

Tajikistan: Where Size Matters

Who and when? Unsupported? They haven't been very good at getting the message out if this is true...
Just to let you know that some six months ago another nation's flagpole surpassed the size of Tajikistan's and they...
The flagpole is not 500m high, probably 500ft, but apart from that, spot on!

This must not be forgotten that USSR Pressure in Kabul 'negotiated with Taliban and left Kabul to Col., Gen., Najubullah..
The “siloviki is there for Balance of Power ' because at Kabul The Western Alliance and especially Washington has no...
Tajikistan must learn a lesson from other countries like Pakistan Argentina and Turkey where ruling regimes depended on USA Aid...

for me, confy in my arm chair front of chimney what can I do, but cry...
You've have to cross some bad times, take care of yourself.. for me in France i'm relatively secure; may be...
The citizens of Kyrgyzstan are courageously standing up for their democratic freedoms with most likely more than 100 dead: