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 […]
This post is part of the crossblog survey “2007 in retrospect”. You can also vote for the most important event of 2007 in our online poll.
This year was full of many interesting events in our life which had a great influence. However, I think 2007 will be remembered in the history of our […]
On October 27 there was a concert of a new music band “Overtime” at Bactria Culture Centre (NGO that deals with culture in Tajikistan). The band presented cover versions of such groups and singers as Sting, Beatles, Eagles, Joe Cocker, Elvis Presley. About 50 people came to the concert. The soloist was Kirill Kambarom […]
Today the head of a department responsible for enforcement of the famous law “On regulation of traditions and customs” in Tajikistan, Abdunabi Kholikov reported on the outputs of the department’s activities. He reported that during the past three months there were organized 892 weddings more than in the previous quarter and the number of circumcisions […]
Editor’s note: This post is part of neweurasia’s cross-blog survey on humour in Central Asia.
To be honest first time when I decided to write about Afandi or Khoja Nasriddin I didn’t know that there is too much information about this stage character in the Internet. To my surprise I found that Wikipedia has […]
Nowadays all of Tajik society is obsessed with “social reforms” on the regulation of traditions and customs, says st_george (rus). It looks like a great competition. Obviously, the governmental officials and those who head the key organizations in the country are the first who want to gain the lead in the competition in order […]
When I quipped that Tajikistan President Rahmon was turning into a “Tajik-bashi” some time ago, citing several rather odd reforms of his, readers responded by detailing some of the logic behind those reforms not covered in the Western mainstream media. I still wasn’t completely convinced, but it was at least a better explanation […]
Firuz at Tajik-language blog wrote an article about the hip hop culture in Tajikistan. In Tajikistan hip hop is a new phenomenon and in comparison to other countries of former Soviet Union Tajikistan is probably the only country among them where this culture is the least developed. However, the Tajik hip-hop singers believe that […]
Tajikistan is hoping to set international value on the jubilee of the great Persian (Tajik) poet. Yesterday during the regular meeting of the government was revised the action-plan of preparation works dedicated to 1150 anniversary of the founder of classic Persian (Tajik) literature Abuabdullo Rudaki. President Emomali Rahmon ordered to give another brush […]
In the republican conference on regulation of national traditions and customs the president of Tajikstan Emomali Rahmon criticized many things in everyday life of the Tajiks. Besides proposing a ban on lavish weddings and funerals Rahmon laid structures on clergies for being “out of date” (rus). Although Ataman Rakin and some other visitors of […]
