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President and his migrants (updated)

Posted by Vadim | in Migration, Crime and Corruption | on February 29th, 2008
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Recently President Emomali Rahmon met with the representatives of Tajik expat community in Russia (rus). It happened one day before the CIS summit in Moscow. When I watched this meeting on TV, I had an impression that people who were invited to this meeting were carefully selected. They spent more time on praising the […]

Awkward gunfights in Tajikistan

Posted by Vadim | in Politics, Crime and Corruption, Domestic Affairs | on February 26th, 2008
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While I was busy with the report on harsh winter in Tajiksitan, Ian at Beyond the River made some good reports on the awkward gunfight, which occurred several weeks ago in Garm, 230 kilometers east from the capital Dushanbe. As a result of the gunfight (Fergana.ru) between the two departments subordinate to the Ministry […]

Why would the international community care about the crisis in Tajikistan?

Posted by Vadim | in Disaster | on February 18th, 2008
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Photo from World Bank Photo Collection.
This is the question that I have been thinking about since the time when the Tajik government officially admitted its impotence to cope with the energy crisis that we have in our country and appealed to international community for help to survive the coldest winter in five decades (by […]

Long way to BarCamp

Posted by Vadim | in Blogosphere | on February 16th, 2008
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Last week I had a chance to attend an exciting event – BarCamp Baltics, which took place in Riga (Latvia). I was invited to this un-conference as one of Tajik bloggers. Because of the hassle with visa obtainment I had no desire to go to Riga, but taking into consideration that there might not […]

Regional Cooperation vs. Ambitions

Posted by Chester | in International Affairs, Economy | on February 8th, 2008
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In today’s world cooperation is a key to development and there is no other way to combat poverty, health etc. as well as new era challenges related to environmental problems, international terrorism, human trafficking and so on and so forth. In the end of January, 2007 a two-day conference was held in Dushanbe to […]

Tajikistan: Is Global Integration Possible?

Posted by Tajik Boy | in International Affairs, Tradition, Oddities, Foreign Policy | on February 6th, 2008
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One of the most interesting phenomena in Tajikistan the general public’s perception of the world. The sad fact is that we have been cut from the rest of the world for more than 70 years and now that we have the freedom to go on and explore, we find ourselves in the mental prison […]

Who are we?

Posted by Chester | in History | on February 1st, 2008
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I usually come across rather interesting information when I just surf on the internet with no purpose. This time I found a couple of sources that explain the etymology of the word “Tajik”.
I remember when I was at high-school we were often told that Tajik meant crowned; consequently, Tajik nation was a crowned nation. […]