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Ted Rall: Tajikistan Expert?

Posted by Vadim | in Domestic Affairs, Development | on June 29th, 2007
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Ted Rall is a guy who travels around Central Asia and writes articles about the region. The last time he wrote an article about president Rahmon The rise of Tajikmanbashi. I dont know why, but he is giving information which is far from the truth. Well, not that far, but you can feel […]

Oil restrictions in Iran may hurt Tajikistan

Posted by Vadim | in International Affairs, International Aid, Foreign Policy, Economy | on June 28th, 2007
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The other day I was reporting that Iran in recent years has become the major foreign investor in Tajikistan and it has plans to make huge investments, especially in hydroenergy sector.
Tajik boy said in response:
In any case the investments are good and I am glad someone is committed to re-build Tajikistan.
Indeed, the Iranian investments […]

Rahmon’s “Reforms” Continued

When I quipped that Tajikistan President Rahmon was turning into a “Tajik-bashi” some time ago, citing several rather odd reforms of his, readers responded by detailing some of the logic behind those reforms not covered in the Western mainstream media. I still wasn’t completely convinced, but it was at least a better explanation […]

Tajik Air: First step to safe flights

Posted by Vadim | in International Aid, Development | on June 21st, 2007
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Finally, the state owned enterprise Tajik Air has acquired for lease one Boeing 737-200 (rus). Today this plane is going to do its first flight with Tajik Air logo on it from Dushanbe to Khujand. Later it will make voyages to Tehran (Iran), Samara, Ekaterenburg (Russia) and Almaty (Kazakhstan). It is the first […]

Explosions: who is the target?

Posted by Vadim | in Security | on June 19th, 2007
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On Saturday all the world information agencies reported on explosions in Dushanbe outside Tajikistans Supreme Court, which is located in the protected area. The explosions did not injure anyone but smashed the windows of the nearby buildings. It was probably the third fact in the series of explosions near the administrative buildings which took […]

Kyrgyz of Pamir learn Tajik

Posted by Vadim | in Education, Domestic Affairs | on June 16th, 2007
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A group of Kyrgyz of the Murgab region in Gorno-Badakhshan are striving to acquire Tajik at the UCA School of Professional and Continuing Education. Pamir Media reports that more than 30 people from Murgab have moved to the second level of the Tajik language course. It is reported that the […]

The army of drug-smugglers

Posted by Vadim | in Crime and Corruption | on June 14th, 2007
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Here is a translation of Khursheds article from russian-tajik blog.
In the beginning of June the information agencies reported on detainment of former warlords of United Tajik Opposition Fahrulloi Fahriddin with a big batch of heroin in the outskirts of Dushanbe. He is more known as Eshoni Daroz. It its well known that the radical […]

Why Iran invests in Tajikistan?

Posted by Vadim | in International Affairs, Business, Education, Development | on June 14th, 2007
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Experts say that the last visit of president of Tajikistan to Iran gave a new impulse to Iranian-Tajik relations. However not many of them understand, why has Iran accelerated its economic cooperation with Tajikistan in recent years, if it did not pay much attention to its sister-country fifteen years after it got independence.
The two […]

More women drive cars

Posted by Vadim | in Gender equality, Tradition | on June 10th, 2007
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Translation from tajik-tajik blog.
The number of women who drive cars in Tajikistan is constantly increasing and according to statistics it already constitutes 30% of all drivers. It is not unusual to see a woman driving car in Europe but in Tajikistan it is an unusual phenomenon. In past it was considered that driving cars […]

Melting glaciers of Tajikistan

Posted by Vadim | in Environment | on June 9th, 2007
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According to meteorologists the global climate change is already affecting the livelihoods of many people in Tajiksitan who are forced to leave their native places because of natural disasters. Although Im skeptic about all the scary stories of ecologists the last three articles from different sources which have appeared this week in WWW need […]

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