High-school and university students are getting more and more excited about the upcoming examination period. Exams and tests usually start at end of May or early June. For some people it is going to be a period of sleepless nights but for others just a period of money-spending.
Today it is not a big secret […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recently President Emomali Rahmon met with the representatives of Tajik expat community in Russia (rus). It happened one day before the CIS summit in Moscow. When I watched this meeting on TV, I had an impression that people who were invited to this meeting were carefully selected. They spent more time on praising the […]
While I was busy with the report on harsh winter in Tajiksitan, Ian at Beyond the River made some good reports on the awkward gunfight, which occurred several weeks ago in Garm, 230 kilometers east from the capital Dushanbe. As a result of the gunfight (Fergana.ru) between the two departments subordinate to the Ministry […]
Recently in Kulyab region broke out a fight between 40 Chinese workers and 50 local men. Many people were injured on both sides but no one of them complained to police just to avoid more problems. IWPR makes a good report on that.
The Chinese involved in fight were part of a team of 300 […]
Salaries of employees of recently established State Financial and Corruption Control Agency constitute 100-300 USD. The head of the agency Sherhon Salimov said about this during the recent press-conference in Dushanbe, reports IA Regnum.Our salaries do not satisfy us, reported Salimov. According to him, his salary constitutes 300 USD a month. Currently the government […]
Khurshed Aminov on the Russian blog reported today that several policemen (militiamen) entered into the room of Tajik students in one of university dormitories and beat them up. Kurshed says, fortunately those representatives of law enforcement bodies were punished.
However the story with those militiamen has a continuation. Kommersant reports
Yesterday, Sergei Komkov (Head of […]
Here is a translation of Khursheds article from russian-tajik blog.
In the beginning of June the information agencies reported on detainment of former warlords of United Tajik Opposition Fahrulloi Fahriddin with a big batch of heroin in the outskirts of Dushanbe. He is more known as Eshoni Daroz. It its well known that the radical […]
