MercyCorps in Tajikistan had somber news on Aug. 11 about the food crisis in Tajikistan:
more than 60 percent of households are down to only one warm meal a day. An extreme winter damaged harvests and neighboring Kazakhstan has suspended wheat exports — shutting off Tajikistan’s primary supply of grain.
Vadim has written about the crisis […]

Tajik banker Mulloyor Yorov wants to establish a Fund (rus) in the name of the first ever Tajik Olympic medalist Rasul Boqiev, who recently secured a bronze medal for Tajikistan in judo.
Obviously, it is good reason to be proud of him as a citizen of Tajikistan, but the Olympic Games are not over yet, […]

The first ever medal of Tajikistan in Olympics was secured by Tajik judoka Rasoul Boqiev. This medal puts Tajikistan on 34th rank among the others. It is a bronze but I’m really proud of Rasul. Here is a brief report by AsiaPlus.
Judoka Rasoul Boqiyev won the first bronze medal in the -73 kg category […]

President Rahmon left China August 8th after attending the opening ceremonies in Beijing.  Hopefully he got the chance to cheer on Dzakhon Kurbanov to overwhelming and  surprising victory over the world boxing champion, Abbos Atoev.  Rahmon did apparently find time to talk about geopolitics, according to the official Tajik presidential website:
Emomali Rahmon, and the […]

The summer is not over yet, but one can hear more and more about the upcoming energy crisis and all its consequences in Tajikistan. The memory about the last severely cold winter is still fresh in the minds of people. They expect one more winter which is going to be according to weather forecasters […]

I last reported on the possibility that the two men in Kashgar crossed the Tajik border before carrying out their attack on border guards in the city.  Porfiriy, at The New Dominion, has translated state news sources indicating that the attackers were local PRC citizens:
 Xinhua Network, Urumqi, 5 August - Reporters have learned from […]

News is beginning to spread of an attack in Kashgar, Xinjiang province of China that resulted in the deaths of 16 Chinese Border patrol officers. Some sources are reporting that two attackers crossed over from Tajikistan, but the NYT and AFP aren’t yet making that assumption. The AP on the other hand […]

The murder of a Russian television journalist Ilyas Shurpaev, which happen in March of this year in Moscow, has been fully investigated and last week the suspects were sentenced by a Supreme Court of Tajikistan to 21 years of imprisonment in a colony with a strict regime. Earlier this year I was reporting about […]

Picture from Rose Davies
The day before yesterday our sportsmen departed to Beijing for Olympic Games. Shannon has already reported on that but I’ll talk more about the sportsmen and their preparations for the games. For the first time in the history of independent Tajikistan, 14 sportsmen are going to participate in this major sports […]

Judging by the deserted stands at the Tajikistan/Turkmenistan football match in the AFC Challenge Cup opening round, all eyes are already focused on the Beijing Olympics as the ultimate sporting and political event of the year. As with many other delegations, the Tajik Olympic team left for Beijing today. Fourteen athletes qualified:
Dilshod Nazarov […]