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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
Zarif Tbilisi

Iranians report arbitrary ban at Georgian border

In recent years the Caucasus country has become a magnet for Iranian students, business owners, and dissidents. But now many report they’re not being allowed to enter.
Giorgi Lomsadze Sep 24, 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
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
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
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

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