The cotton harvest is both a source for revenue and agony. This being said that revenue only for some people and agony only for others, both do not know about each other. This is what happening in Tajikistan at present day. Local officials in the areas, where cotton is grown, force local people to […]
The increase in price for food is becoming the main problem in Tajikistan. Unbelievable, I have been living in Dushanbe for about two months and I can feel the increase in prices in such a short period of time. It makes me nervous. The political parties in Tajikistan are already raising concerns about the […]
Editor’s note: This post is part of neweurasia’s cross-blog survey on humour in Central Asia.
To be honest first time when I decided to write about Afandi or Khoja Nasriddin I didnt know that there is too much information about this stage character in the Internet. To my surprise I found that Wikipedia has […]
Today I found an excellent website Tajik Artists. You can visit the site and view the beautiful works of twelve Tajik artists. I have never seen anything like this in Tajikistan. Thanks to Fabiola Agudelo - I have no more information about him her - this website was set up. The project was […]
Yesterday when I arrived from Bishkek at Dushanbe airport I saw an unpleasant scene: a Kyrgyz guy who came by the same plane asked a Tajik guy (airport personnel) for a light (matches, lighter), while having a cigarette in his mouth. That was the main mistake during the Holy Ramadan that one can make when […]
It is no surprise that CA countries are young. It would not be too much of a problem if one thing was not also true. We are quite inexperienced in self-governance.
Lets face it people, for the past 70 years under the soviet rule we have been told how to live our lives (for […]
The new president of France Nicolas Sarkozy showed a friendly gesture to his colleague George Bush by deciding to redeploy his 6 Mirages from Dushanbe to Afghanistan.
Cmdr. Christophe Prazuck said the planes, based in Dushanbe, are to be transferred to Kandahar, in the troubled south of Afghanistan. Three of the planes designed to […]
