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Tajik teacher

Tajikistan: Teachers leaving for Russia and not looking back

Salaries were always horribly low but living costs have soared since the pandemic began.
Nov 10, 2021
Afghan Tajik border

Afghan refugees hope Tajikistan is just a pit stop

Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.
Kamila Ibragimova Oct 15, 2021
Bromide bros (Tajikistan presidential administration)

Turkmenistan: Trading places

That Central Asia's presidents seemed to enjoy themselves together was itself a breakthrough. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.
Akhal-Teke: A Turkmenistan Bulletin Aug 10, 2021
Tajik authorities have said members of the public failing to wear a mask has been a likely driver of the new outbreak. (Photo: Presidential administration)

Tajikistan: COVID-19 crisis escalates, forcing government to drop denials

China has delivered 300,000 doses of vaccine, but will the public want them?
Kamila Ibragimova Jun 21, 2021
No patient, no problem: President Rahmon, left, has declared victory over COVID-19. (Photo: Presidential administration)

Tajikistan: COVID strikes again, despite official denials

The government appears to be taking active measures to cover up the new outbreak.
Kamila Ibragimova May 26, 2021
Dushanbe central mosque. (Photo: Flickr / Creative Commons)

Tajikistan: Huge Muslim Brotherhood trial ends with lengthy prison sentences

The group's alleged leader was an Egyptian national teaching Arabic at a local state-run university.
Apr 12, 2021
The last photo published on Rahmon’s Flickr page.

Tajikistan president pulls disappearing act over holiday season

What makes Rahmon’s disappearance all very odd is that he is a particular devotee of the Nowruz spring equinox feast.
Mar 23, 2021
Dushanbe

Tajikistan’s excess mortality data belie COVID-19 denialism

Authorities have not made any attempt to explain the abnormally high number of deaths last year.
Feb 23, 2021
Tajik PM Kohir Rasulzoda and Russian deputy PM Alexei Overchuk at a signing ceremony in Moscow this week. (Photo: Tajik Foreign Ministry)

Russia using crisis in Tajikistan to advance EAEU agenda?

Dushanbe is desperate to resume flights to Russian cities.
Feb 12, 2021
Kazakhstan is developing its own QazCovid-in vaccine. (Photo: Kazakhstan government website)

Central Asia vaccination plans underwhelm, but governments look unruffled

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan are taking triumphalist stances on coronavirus.
Jan 14, 2021
Laborers in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd Province

Tajikistan: Even Russia feels pain as pandemic wreaks havoc on migration lifeline

Food prices have jumped this year and there are few jobs, but out-of-work migrants can’t get to where they are desperately needed.
Dec 17, 2020
Pre-fight advertising from Tajik gambling company Formula 55.

UFC Khabib’s last outing too hot for Tajikistan?

The authorities are spooked by the idea that a crowd could form.
Chris Rickleton Oct 26, 2020
USAID/EU aid to Abkhazia

Abkhazia calls for volunteers to help with COVID outbreak

Many in the territory blame the rising numbers of coronavirus cases on the authorities’ decision to open up to Russian tourists.
Joshua Kucera Aug 19, 2020
No matter how you slice it, Ukraine’s population remains a mystery. (president.gov.ua)

Ukraine’s census attempt crashes and burns yet again

Independent Ukraine has held only one census, almost 20 years ago.
Mariya Chukhnova Aug 12, 2020
Abkhazia booth

Russian tourists flood into newly reopened Abkhazia

The territory's public health officials have warned against opening up to tourism, and the arrival of tourists has coincided with a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
Joshua Kucera Aug 11, 2020

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