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A panhandling president is unaccountable to his Western benefactors.

The increases have reversed a demographic decline that the territory has seen since the pandemic and war with Azerbaijan.

Salaries were always horribly low but living costs have soared since the pandemic began.

Middle-class Afghans with the means to navigate Tajikistan’s bureaucracy see the country as a springboard to the West.

China has delivered 300,000 doses of vaccine, but will the public want them?

The government appears to be taking active measures to cover up the new outbreak.

The group's alleged leader was an Egyptian national teaching Arabic at a local state-run university.

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

Authorities have not made any attempt to explain the abnormally high number of deaths last year.

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan are taking triumphalist stances on coronavirus.

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

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

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.