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Search | 18 Articles

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
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
former Turkmen Interior Minister Isgender Mulikov

The modern-day struggle sessions of Central Asia

The apology or recantation is uploaded to social media. Often, there is a pretense of the repentance being voluntary. But that is not always the case.
Jun 25, 2020
Who's behind you?: A media trainer sharing tricks of the trade at a USAID-funded training seminar in 2019. (Photo: USAID)

Tajikistan intensifies and broadens war on journalists

A state TV program accuses reporters of working in league with would-be extremists.
Jun 24, 2020
Coronavirus truth-tellers being gagged (president.tj)

Tajikistan: COVID-19 outbreak offers cover for fresh assault on free press

It’s open season on journalists in Tajikistan and officials aren’t shy about blaming the victims.
Jun 12, 2020
Plenty of supplies for a photo op with the president (presidential administration)

Tajikistan: Coronavirus panic puts sufferers of other illnesses in grave danger

With supply chains disrupted, patients with chronic needs are unable to find key medicines.
May 29, 2020
Where the son don't shine: Rustam Emomali, right, examining premises of a new hospital. (Photo: Mayor's office)

Tajikistan: Has the president’s son already taken over?

President Rahmon has kept a low profile, leaving his son to take the lead.
May 5, 2020
Doctor-in-chief: Rahmon has not been seen since April 17.

Tajikistan finally confirms its first 15 coronavirus cases

Questions will be asked why this announcement came so late.
Apr 30, 2020
WHO representative Galina Perfiliyeva has refused to answer local journalists’ questions. (Photo: USAID)

WHO role in Tajikistan’s coronavirus-free narrative under scrutiny

The World Health Organization is refusing to answer questions while it appears to support the government’s increasingly dubious claims.
Apr 24, 2020
President Emomali Rahmon and his son meeting constituents in Dushanbe on April 6. (Presidential press service)

Tajikistan's nonchalance on coronavirus shows cracks

Critics are exasperated by the government’s passivity, warning that the reforms needed for Tajikistan to weather this moment should have been adopted “the day before yesterday.”
Apr 6, 2020
(Photo: FC Istiklol)

Tajikistan provides solace to soccer junkies

The Central Asian dictatorship insists it has no cases of coronavirus. So the beautiful game must go on.
Paul Bartlett Apr 2, 2020
Many schoolchildren and university students were forced to dance for the president this weekend (president.tj)

Tajikistan: Feast in the time of coronavirus

The president is bullish that his country will dodge the pandemic and spent the weekend glad-handing the public.
Mar 23, 2020
Senior Tajik officials demonstrate social distancing in Dushanbe on March 18. (presidential administration)

Tajikistan braces for grim times as oil, COVID-19 assail Russian economy

As the government pretends everything is normal, families are in a state of deepening anxiety over a perfect storm that could plunge the country into an unusually severe crisis.
Mar 18, 2020
Short shelf life: Staple goods running short in Tajikistan. (Social media)

Tajikistan: Authorities spark COVID-19 panic by urging calm

Mosques have been shuttered and shoppers are stockpiling food.
Mar 4, 2020
At-Bashi

Chinese business briefing: Corona cursed

Central Asia claims zero cases of coronavirus, but the economic symptoms are everywhere. This and more in our monthly briefing on Chinese business in the region.
Niva Yau Mar 4, 2020

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