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A wedding shop in Dushanbe (David Trilling)

Tajikistan: In a world of unreliable men, polygamy offers uneasy answer

Polygamous marriages can grant women some financial stability, but no legal protection if they are abandoned.
Jan 20, 2023
Osh hospital

EurasiaChat: Healthcare is collapsing in Central Asia and doctors are being blamed

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Aigerim Toleukhanova, Alisher Khamidov Jan 17, 2023
Tajikistan is experiencing an unusually severe winter. (Photo: Tajik state news agency)

Tajikistan: Cold weather precipitates end to power rationing

The state-owned electricity provider had been suspending supplies from 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. daily.
Jan 16, 2023
Dushanbe police

Tajikistan police use public shaming to silence women

Police are enforcing an unwritten moral code that applies only to women.
Jan 11, 2023
Utility workers in Almaty, Kazakhstan, clearing away snow on the street last week. (Photo: Almaty city hall)

Harsh winter weather sweeps across Central Asia

Temperatures in Kazakhstan are slipping to below -30 degrees Celsius.
Jan 10, 2023
Roghun

Tajikistan: Families freeze while energy independence chimera remains ever distant

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.
Dec 14, 2022
Isfara

Tajikistan: Helpless Kyrgyz communities isolated and stranded by border tension

Until last year, ethnic Kyrgyz people were able to cross into neighboring Kyrgyzstan with their Tajik passports. Now they must first travel to a third country, an option few can afford.
Oct 26, 2022
Erdogan

EurasiaChat: Putin stole the show, but Turkey brought the goods

Russia and Kazakhstan are doing the dirty work for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Plus, Ukraine war brings Central Asia and Turkey closer together.
Aigerim Toleukhanova, Joanna Lillis, EurasiaChat Oct 17, 2022
Russians in Bishkek

EurasiaChat: The Russians have come

Kazakhstan reacts to fleeing Russians; worry at deescalation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border; and Xinjiang protestors in Almaty. Subscribe to EurasiaChat.
Aigerim Toleukhanova, Joanna Lillis, EurasiaChat Oct 3, 2022
Tajik men projectile

Tajik civilians take stock of their losses in conflict with Kyrgyzstan

Much of last week’s cross-border violence between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan was unleashed by the armed forces. But mobs also rampaged through villages.
Sep 21, 2022
Volunteers collect water at the Sports Palace

Kyrgyzstan: How civil society rapidly coalesced amid border conflagration

The same volunteer energies are also being used to crowdsource military kit.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Sep 19, 2022
The Central Mosque in Dushanbe. (Photo: leiris202 / Creative Commons)

Tajikistan: Authorities intensify war on Ismailis, other Muslims

The only figure that the regime deems worthy of open adulation is President Emomali Rahmon.
Sep 9, 2022
Dushanbe Luban

China expands vocational training centers to Central Asia

The Luban Workshops will spread technical skills, familiarity with Chinese equipment, and suspicion.
Jiahui Huang Sep 1, 2022
Rahmatbekova and Tabibi

Friday Night Fever: Salsa defies sedate Tajik capital

Dushanbe’s Latin dancers find meaning in something new.
Thijs Broekkamp Aug 26, 2022
Khammosh and friends

In Tajikistan, Afghan refugees fear they’re trapped in a dead end

For some Afghans trying to make a new life abroad, Tajikistan feels like a step backwards.
Thijs Broekkamp Aug 19, 2022

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