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 […]
It is no surprise that CA countries are young. It would not be too much of a problem if one thing was not also true. We are quite inexperienced in self-governance.
Let’s face it people, for the past 70 years under the soviet rule we have been told how to live our lives (for […]
What follows is one part of a cross-blog initiative that commemorates the 1991 Moscow coup and evaluates the years in between.
Early Years of Independence
The fall of Soviet Union lead to two major changes in Tajikistan. Following the 1991 coup in Russia, Tajikistan declared independence September of 1991 and plunged into a civil war.
Early years […]
It is hard to underestimate Russia’s role in helping secular Tajiks combat radical Islamic movements in Tajikistan and in providing comfort against Taleban invasion from Afghanistan. However, Russia’s latest actions (meetings in Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan and confrontations with Ukraine/ Georgia) raise a question for many Tajiks whether Russia is friend or foe in the long run. […]
Here is a piece of news that surfaced recently on Russian media regarding a problem that almost all Tajiks living in Russia face.
The strange thing is that neither Tajik nor Russian governments have paid enough attention to these blatant racial attacks. Perhaps the best example of such negligence is demonstrated by […]
The US ambassador to Tajikistan Richard E. Hoagland sees Tajikistan as a remarkable success story. In this article he goes on to a great detail to describe his observations and share his thoughts about the economic development of the country for the past three years. It is quite a pleasant surprise to learn […]
According to this post, a number of Tajik educators arrived in the US for an eight-day study tour at the Center for Economic Education at Fort Hays State University. The aim of the program is to show how economic education is delivered in the US.
Mahbouba Avezova, executive director of the Foundations […]
I recently came across a site about Tajikistan and decided to share a link with you. The author of the site (Peter Flindell) is a photographer so it has some breathtaking pictures of Tajikistan. The photos are followed by short stories about the events and the context in which the pictures were taken. […]
Iran has signed a trilateral agreement with Tajikistan and Afghanistan for the construction of Sangtuda-2 power plant in Tajikistan and the distribution of electricity from Tajikistan to Iran (via Afghanistan). The power plant is supposed to provide additional 1bln kWt/h of electricity generation capacity to Tajikistan and will mainly be financed […]
The problem of HIV/AIDS has been a relatively new one in Tajikistan. Closed borders have kept the country and its people isolated from HIV/AIDS during soviet rule. Such isolation has been a blessing, but it became a curse in recent years since it led to a knowledge vacuum that took its toll on the […]
