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More than a military alliance analogous to NATO, the bloc is a political entity. But analysts have never agreed on its exact purpose.

The militant group claimed last month that it had launched a rocket attack on Uzbekistan.

Kyrgyzstan had hoped its own acquisition of the same drones last year would give it a strategic edge over Tajikistan.

Chinese investors often get generous tax breaks in the country.

The president has given no indication he has a plan, other than to instruct the public to stockpile two years’ worth of food.

Absent information from authorities, rumors are driving wild market swings.

Tajikistan has hitched itself firmly to the Russian economy. Now it’s in deep trouble.

Sanctions on Russia are hurting savers in Tajikistan.

Emomali's hands-on management style appears designed to cast him in the role of the listening leader.

Earlier confrontations have resolved either with the killing of informal leaders or uneasy compromise.

Development of the telecommunications sector has been hindered by chronic meddling and over-regulation.

Since unrest in November, the region has been cut off from the internet. Now it appears the far-off central government is setting the stage for a fresh and more brutal crackdown.

Chorshanbiyev caused outrage in 2020 by appearing to insult Tajiks.

The embassy says it refuses to give back the cash.

The conscripts, generally Tajikistan’s poorest young men, are brutalized into service. And they are the country’s first line of defense.

At least three people have reportedly been killed by government forces to date.

More than a fifth of Tajikistan’s total population has entered Russia so far this year.

It will not be the first border facility China has built for Tajikistan.

China is subsidizing reconstruction of a road to China. Tajik officials won’t say what they’re offering in return.

Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.

The families fear they will be murdered with the government’s connivence.

Tajikistan faces its own shortages each winter.

The man complained that women and students were being forced to rehearse for parades.

Kyrgyzstan has sent a delegation to the Taliban, while neighbor Tajikistan flirts with the Afghan resistance.