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A facile and naïve plan being discussed in Washington risks backfiring on Iran’s minority Christians.

The authorities are spooked by the idea that a crowd could form.

While it would be wrong to start pointing fingers and formulating conspiracy theories, clearly the risks are many and real.

Chinese personnel, whose presence Dushanbe denies, forbid reporters from filming.

Independent Ukraine has held only one census, almost 20 years ago.

The government’s lack of capacity helps explain the about-face.

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.

A state TV program accuses reporters of working in league with would-be extremists.

It’s open season on journalists in Tajikistan and officials aren’t shy about blaming the victims.

With supply chains disrupted, patients with chronic needs are unable to find key medicines.

Government troops are rumored to have been dispatched to quell the trouble.

President Rahmon has kept a low profile, leaving his son to take the lead.

Questions will be asked why this announcement came so late.

The World Health Organization is refusing to answer questions while it appears to support the government’s increasingly dubious claims.

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.”