So, I’m usually not for posting about conspiracies, but this one here caught my attention. I got sent an email with a link to this page (Webpark.ru). It contains quite a lot of pictures, such as the one posted above.
What you can see are photos taken in March 2005. They show a crashed Antonov-24, flying […]

A Tajik university held a conference to compare Rumi and Goethe and their views on East and the West. Called “Dialogue among Cultures”, the event was held in Khujand on Wednesday and Thursday last week.
There has always been some controversy over where Rumi, or Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, actually belongs. Was he born in Balkh […]

Originally posted on Global Voices
Once Turkmenistan’s former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, or Turkmenbashi (”Father of all Turkmens”), died last December, the other Central Asian strongmen stood suddenly deprived of the “ne plus ultra of Central Asian dictators.” As such, Ian of Beyond The River says…
…the other leaders could always point to him when poked in […]

After successfully overcoming endless mountain passes and military checkpoints, our Soviet minibus finally starts to descend into the Wakhan Valley in Eastern Tajikistan. For about three days, our driver Valerij had skilfully manoeuvred us from Osh in Kyrgyzstan to here – and although probably one of the most dangerous roads in the world, rarely […]