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 […]
Today a helicopter MI-8 with eleven foreign citizens (Austria, Switzerland, Russia, France, Belgium, Germany and Britain) and a translator (citizien of Tajikistan) crashed in Tajikistan. It happened in the eastern part of the country in Gorno-Badakhshan, Shugnan district. AsiaPlus reports that one of the pilots died and the others together with passengers got injured.
“According to the preliminary […]
The latest report of The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) says that the partly solved problem with electricity in Tajikistan, which has been naturally solved - the warmer times have come - was not the main problem to face by the population this year. According to the CSM, the worse crisis is to come in […]
Photo from World Bank Photo Collection.
This is the question that I have been thinking about since the time when the Tajik government officially admitted its impotence to cope with the energy crisis that we have in our country and appealed to international community for help to survive the coldest winter in five decades (by […]
The main building of Tajik State Medical University which graduates all of the doctors in the country is totally burned. This tragedy happened today in the afternoon. The main building of the university started burning at around 2 p.m. and firefighters could not put out the fire. The whole building with all its libraries, […]
Winter in Tajikistan is not only about electricity cut-offs but also about natural disasters which cause damages, destructions, and deaths. It was reported by the leading information agencies, including Reuters. An avalanche which came from the mountains down to the main road connecting Dushanbe and Khujand, killed at least sixteen people last night.
According to […]
