Despite the common historical and cultural heritage of Tajiks and Iranians, Tajiks love Russia more than Iran. IRNA reports that according to the recent poll conducted and published by Weekly View, shows that 33 percent of those questioned consider Iran as one of Tajikistan’s main strategic partners.
The English of IRNA is a bit difficult […]
The solution of energy crisis in Tajikistan can not be handled without negative influence on the impoverished population. Recently the head of Barki Tojik (electricity monopolist) announced that there was made a proposal to the government to double the price for electricity. According to him this will make the hydropower sector more attractive for […]
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) youre a governmental official, or (2) youre a former governmental official, or (3) youre a businessman who avoids paying taxes, or (4) youre an entertainment star, or finally (5) youre a drug-smuggler. If youre 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 […]
In Tajikistan each textile (cloth) has a name of a popular person. Previously, I heard about this interesting phenomenon in Tajikistan but didnt pay attention to it as long as I did not see the names of Putin and Bin Laden. I read about this in an article today(rus).
While American companies produce toilet papers […]
Yesterday two Tajik nationals, suspected of killing Ilyas Shurpaev - a reporter of Russian TV company Channel One were detained in Dushanbe by the local police.
Television reporter Ilyas Shurpayev was found dead March 21 in a rented Moscow apartment with a belt around his neck and multiple knife wounds.
Although the implication of these […]
Another rally in Khorog (the administrative center of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region) to be organized by Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT), led by Rahmatullo Zoirov, one of the main opponents of the current president. As the Russian proverb says дурная привычка заразна - an ill habit is foul. In our case it is […]
Today about three hundred people came out to the streets of Khorog to protest against the despotism of law enforcement authorities, reports AsiaPlus (rus). They demand to have punished all the corrupted representatives of these authorities.
According to the participants of the rally, on 14th of March in Roshtkala district of Gorno-Badakhshan Region two public […]
