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Polygamous marriages can grant women some financial stability, but no legal protection if they are abandoned.

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Video footage shows Abdukakhkhor Rozikov's body covered in bruising.

Tajikistan has struggled for over a decade to raise funds for the world's tallest dam, leaving its population freezing each winter and skimping on basic social services.

Mamadshoeva is just one among a countless number of Pamiris subjected to arbitrary trials in recent months.

Nuraliyev's time at the National Bank was dominated by a series of restrictions.

Pirmukhammadzoda says he has no hope in the justice system and expects to receive a lengthy sentence.

Rahmon indicates that he wants more money and attention from Moscow.

While the decision isn’t likely to have a practical effect on people’s freedom to travel, it does signal a potential shift in Brussels’s approach to Georgia’s breakaway territories.

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

A man who tried against all odds to build a successful business on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border was killed in fighting last month. Matisa Nadyrov told Eurasianet of his dreams just a few months ago.

Rights activists insist Central Asian laborers are being conned.

A largely Tajik village in Kyrgyzstan has been dragged into a diplomatic row since the latest fighting with neighboring Tajikistan.

The surprise trip comes amid a period of geopolitical turmoil in the region, as Russia is getting set to annex several parts of Ukraine.

Kyrgyz villagers believe Tajikistan is trying to make life so miserable and unbearable that they will up sticks and move away, ultimately ceding the land by default.