I suppose that many other people visiting this blog know about a rank of their country in Human Development Report for 2007, which was recently released by UNDP. There is no surprise but Tajikistan has the lowest human development (rus) rate amongst the former Soviet countries. It ranks 117th out of 177 countries.
People live […]
Recently in Kulyab region broke out a fight between 40 Chinese workers and 50 local men. Many people were injured on both sides but no one of them complained to police just to avoid more problems. IWPR makes a good report on that.
The Chinese involved in fight were part of a team of 300 […]
A week after the bomb explosion in Dushanbe, no terrorist organization has claimed to be the organizer. This raises a reasonable question - was it really a terrorist act? Reuters has a good report on that. It reports that the Islamic Revival Party, allegedly the main opposition force in the country, has doubts regarding […]
This is a translation of Roma’s post from the Russian-Tajik neweurasia blog.
Journalist is an interesting profession, but extremely unappreciative in Tajikistan. The government is not putting that much pressure on journalists as the editors and publishers do.
There is a long range of evidences which can prove how hard is it to be a […]
Today the central area of Dushanbe again was cordoned off (rus) by law enforcement bodies because of a bomb explosion threat. There was found a suspicious box somewhere close to the ZUM (supermarket) which is located several hundred meters far from the Presidential Palace.
Yesterday there was a bomb explosion which killed one person. […]
The Communist Party of Tajikistan made a request to President Rahmon for moving the monument of Lenin from central park of Dushanbe closer to its office. This request was made on 7th of October when communists traditionally celebrate the Revolution Day.
The official commemorations were abandoned long time ago but, the members of communist party […]
Yesterday Tajiksitan celebrated Constitution Day. Also, last year, on that date Emomali Rahmon was reelected for his first 7 year term according to the new amended constitution. IA Regnum conducted a poll amongst the political experts on the successes and failures of President Rahmon during the past year.
According to the experts, one of the […]
