sent by Khorsheed Bakhshayesh
Dushanbe 
Mayor of the Tajik capital has appealed to heads and workers of all ‘managing subjects of the capital’ – irrespective of the patterns of ownership and departmental subordination – to transfer 50% of their monthly salaries in coming May and June to the Raghun Dam construction account. The appeal follows President […]

Yesterday I saw off one more friend of mine who left for the United States of America. Many young people today in Tajikistan seek opportunities to leave our country with a hope to get better education and/or earn money. A year ago I heard American consul in Tajikistan said that […]

The British Ambassador to Tajikistan Graeme Loten has criticized the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) for their apathy towards the population’s hardship during the past winter. The IRPT did not follow the pattern set by other opposition parties to taunt Rahmon’s administration for power shortage that caused newborn deaths and winter havoc in […]

Tajik media have been publishing more articles on regionalism lately. Unsurprisingly, most of them defend the unwritten ideology of the present political neopatrimonial establishment and some of them support it explicitly, like Safvat Burhanov’s article published in the latest issue of Ozodagon (Dushanbe), who calls for further preserving regionalist affiliations. According to him, regionalism […]

Usually when I talk about Tajikistan blogs at neweurasia I prefer naming/categorizing them as Tajik-Tajik blog, which means a blog about Tajikistan in Tajik language, or Tajik-English blog (this one), or Tajik-Russian. The same way of categorizing can be applied to all media outlets in Tajikistan. At first glance you can not notice a […]

If you are a wealthy person living in Tajikistan, it means that either (1) you’re a governmental official, or (2) you’re a former governmental official, or (3) you’re a businessman who avoids paying taxes, or (4) you’re an entertainment star, or finally (5) you’re a drug-smuggler. If you’re not a governmental official and […]

Here is an interesting article by IWPR about the cross-border problems that occur in Fergana valley - the region divided between three states (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). Tajikistan always had relatively good relations with its neighbor Kyrgyzstan but seems like it is not going to last any longer. There is a problem which is very […]