Yesterday the main state TV channels were broadcasting the opening ceremony of a US made Tajik-Afghan bridge. Usually, I dont watch this kind of ceremony where presidents and other high officials talk too much but this time I made myself watch it. I have already talked about this bridge and there were some good […]
So, I’m usually not for posting about conspiracies, but this one here caught my attention. I got sent an email with a link to this page (Webpark.ru). It contains quite a lot of pictures, such as the one posted above.
What you can see are photos taken in March 2005. They show a crashed Antonov-24, flying […]
One could find common features in most of the important events taking place in Tajikistans life. Most of the policy changes are done through either prohibition of something, displacement of officials or criminalization of some types of activities.
Just in the last couple of months we were witnesses of some decrees that forbade having the […]
The video of Russian nationalists posted in the Internet on Sunday, which shows the execution of a Tajik and Dagistani, shocked everyone. It was the first time when the Russian neo-Nazis made public such a material. These days it is the most discussed topic in the Russian blogosphere according to the rating of […]
The other day I was talking about the popularity of Chinese minivans in Tajikistan (rus), especially in the capital of the country. I made a translation of some excerpts in my roundup.
There are many Chinese companies which produce these small vans but people in Dushanbe have found a general name for all of them […]
Can you imagine that in Dushanbe one kilo of flesh-meat in the supermarkets costs 22 somoni (about 6,4 USD) and in the local markets meat with bones costs 14 somoni (about 4 USD)? Also, one bag of flour (50 kilos) costs 75 somoni (about 21 USD).
Even during the harshest economic crisis Tajiks always have […]
