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 […]
In Tajikistan each textile (cloth) has a name of a popular person. Previously, I heard about this interesting phenomenon in Tajikistan but didn’t 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 […]
Recently, I was arguing that Tajik migrants have become a powerful tool in Russia’s hands against Tajikistan. Tajikistan would never get in direct conflict with Russia and labor migration would be one of the main reasons for that. The contradictions over construction of Rogun power station could easily become a strong reason for further […]
Experts say that the last visit of president of Tajikistan to Iran gave a new impulse to Iranian-Tajik relations. However not many of them understand, why has Iran accelerated its economic cooperation with Tajikistan in recent years, if it did not pay much attention to its sister-country fifteen years after it got independence.
The two […]
James Hill at New York Times reports that thanks to funding from US state budget the Italian company Rizzani de Eccher is nearly to complete construction of strategically important bridge across Panj river which will connect Tajikistan and Afghanistan, ‘offering the promise of economic development’ in this region.
Some experts say that the bridge […]
Poverty usually puts up people to a crime. One of the most widely-spread forms of crime in Tajikistan is drug trafficking. However, the creativity of people apt to crimes is not limited to drug-trafficking. The steeling of telephone cables right from the poles is another way of surviving for impoverished people. Obviously, after the […]
The Ayni-Penjikent road along the Zerafshan river is a fantastically scenic route. After another three to four hour drive, interrupted at some point by a traffic police officer soliciting “choypuli”, we arrived in Penjikent.
The town has certainly changed since the 1990s. It looks more abandoned now. Driving along the major street that used to […]
According to the results of the survey conducted in Tajikistan by International Financial Corporation this summer, the entrepreneurs undergo regular inspections by different governmental agencies. The frequency of inspections varies from 6 to 21 times a month depending on the region.
Most of the time the inspections are conducted by tax inspection (91%), fire inspection […]
