Today, on my way to work I was listening to BBC Radio in marshrutka. It was a road show by Anora Sarkorova (famous Tajik journalist on BBC Russia) who was reporting on problems that Tajik passengers have when they cross Russian and Uzbek borders by train. She was interviewing the passengers of the ill-fated […]

Tajikistan is moving ahead towards what can be the country’s first genuinely free and fair presidential election. For Emomali Rakhmonov, who on September 23 was unanimously nominated by the ruling People’s Democratic Party to seek another term in the office, the election scheduled for November 6 is a mere formality.
Tajikistan is no different from […]

Recently BBCRussian.com published an article, titled “Tajiks are asked to put their golden teeth on the shelf” (Таджиков попросили положить золотые зубы на полку). The title of the article seems weird but it caused lots of discussions in the web. Many Russian websites just copy pasted the article without mentioning the source and the […]

The issue of personality cult has never been discussed in Tajikistan that much as it is discussed today. Recently there appeared several articles in the Internet which have become part of this discussion. In previous years Rahmonov publicly said that he is against the personality cult and gave orders to remove all his portraits […]