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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
Anka drones are produced by the Ankara-based Turkish Aerospace Industries. (Photo: Turkish Aerospace website)

Kyrgyzstan buys new batch of Turkish-made drones

An official has identified the new purchases as Aksungur and Anka UAVs.
Ayzirek Imanaliyeva Jan 18, 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
Jabbar

Islamic State claims Tajik behind attack on Chinese in Kabul

In response, Beijing urged its nationals to leave Afghanistan. Then a Chinese firm signed a big new oil deal in the country’s north.
Lucas Webber 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
Kulob

Tajikistan: Apparent jail torture death sparks rare show of dissent

Video footage shows Abdukakhkhor Rozikov's body covered in bruising.
Jan 4, 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
Ulfathonim Mamadshoeva with her grandchildren (Facebook)

Tajikistan: Respected journalist sentenced to 21 years in prison

Mamadshoeva is just one among a countless number of Pamiris subjected to arbitrary trials in recent months.
Dec 12, 2022
Jamoliddin Nuraliyev, the former deputy head of the National Bank, in a selfie taken at Niagara Falls and posted to Facebook on November 29. (Photo: Jamoliddin Nuraliyev Facebook account)

Tajikistan: Banking sector enlivened by presidential son-in-law’s exit

Nuraliyev's time at the National Bank was dominated by a series of restrictions.
Dec 6, 2022
Chinese and Kyrgyz troops

China stepping up military cooperation with Tajikistan

The countries have agreed to systematize defense cooperation.
Nov 22, 2022
Tajik Defense Minister Colonel General Sherali Mirzo, left, seen alongside the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, Major-General Mohammad Bagheri, at a ceremony in May to mark the opening of an Ababil-2 production facility in Dushanbe. (Photo: Press TV)

Tajikistan denies it is delivering Iran-designed drones to Russia

Dushanbe apparently began producing Iranian drones under license earlier this year.
Oct 31, 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
Abdusattor Pirmukhammadzoda in a video uploaded to YouTube in June 2022. (Photo: YouTube screengrab)

Tajikistan: Journalist’s smuggled letter sheds light on torture

Pirmukhammadzoda says he has no hope in the justice system and expects to receive a lengthy sentence.
Oct 25, 2022

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