In the republican conference on regulation of national traditions and customs the president of Tajikstan Emomali Rahmon criticized many things in everyday life of the Tajiks. Besides proposing a ban on lavish weddings and funerals Rahmon laid structures on clergies for being out of date (rus). Although Ataman Rakin and some other visitors of […]
Everything started with golden teeth last year. During the visit to one of rural schools Emomali Rahmon met a teacher with golden teeth which caused a bit of irritation of him and he decided to ban wearing of golden teeth throughout the country. For some reasons this decision of him was not transformed into […]
Recently, I was surprised to see my post - about the annual address of the President to the Parliament - published on Oasis website which took it from the other website SNGnews.ru, and thankfully both of them made a reference to our website. The funniest thing here is that I started writing that post […]
Yesterday, theTajik intelligence officials reported on detainment of teenagers who were trained in a terrorist camp. However, the report did not clarify what country they were trained in and what terrorist organization did recruit them. The information agency Regnum (rus) took an interview from Nozirjon Buriev, the Head of the Information Center of State […]
“A new party for Tajik migrant workers abroad could become a serious domestic political force even though most of its prospective voters are in Russia,” - reports NBCentralAsia. They argue that this political party could become a backbone of the new opposition. This is to some extent true because the Islamic Revival Party after […]
A Tajik university held a conference to compare Rumi and Goethe and their views on East and the West. Called “Dialogue among Cultures”, the event was held in Khujand on Wednesday and Thursday last week.
There has always been some controversy over where Rumi, or Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, actually belongs. Was he born in Balkh […]
While the officials report that the economy of the country is developing at a fast pace and soon, about 5 years from now we are going to have a totally different country, the ordinary population is suffering of malnutrition. Ive read an article where an eleven years old boy from Vahdat district, 27 km […]
It is interesting to hear that the Tajik government is to establish a position of Ombudsman who is going to protect the rights of Tajik citizens. Emomali Rahmon made this public in his annual address to the Parliament on April 30. NBCental Asia reports that Rahmon said that “as a democratic institution, this structure […]
