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Tajikistan: New legislation

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 @ 12:17 UTC

by Ben Paarmann

Countries:: Tajikistan
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Development, Economics

At neweurasia, Madina lists several of the new laws and regulations that were stipulated by the Tajik government recently. Many of them are absurd and remind Madina of an 18th-century caliphate.

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