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Rally in Khorog

Posted by Vadim | in Crime and Corruption, Human Rights, Domestic Affairs | on March 17th, 2008
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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 […]

Tajik Journalists – Hostages Of Publishers

Posted by Vadim | in Employment, Human Rights, Media | on November 18th, 2007
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This is a translation of Roma’s post from the Russian-Tajik neweurasia blog.
Journalist is an interesting profession, but extremely unappreciative in Tajikistan. The government is not putting that much pressure on journalists as the editors and publishers do.
There is a long range of evidences which can prove how hard is it to be a […]

Everybody to cotton-fields!

Posted by Vadim | in Human Rights, Oddities, Economy, Domestic Affairs | on September 30th, 2007
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The cotton harvest is both a source for revenue and agony. This being said that revenue only for some people and agony only for others, both do not know about each other. This is what happening in Tajikistan at present day. Local officials in the areas, where cotton is grown, force local people to […]

Independent Ombudsman In Tajikistan

Posted by Vadim | in Politics, Human Rights | on May 14th, 2007

It is interesting to hear that the Tajik government is to establish a position of Ombudsman who is going to protect the rights of Tajik citizens. Emomali Rahmon made this public in his annual address to the Parliament on April 30. NBCental Asia reports that Rahmon said that “as a democratic institution, this structure […]

“Why women accept the system of male dominance?”

Posted by Gulru | in Gender equality, Human Rights | on March 20th, 2007
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“Why do many women accept the system of male dominance?” asked one of my professors from the United States. Even though, in Tajikistan, it is widely spread that males have more authority than females, this question had never came up to my mind before.
Indeed, even though women fought/fighting for gender equality, there are […]

People in Dushanbe Protest against Corrupt Judiciary and Household Evictions

Posted by Alexander | in Crime and Corruption, Human Rights, Domestic Affairs | on January 30th, 2007
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35 people gathered yesterday in front of the Supreme Court in Dushanbe to protest against “unfair court rulings and corrupt judiciary” in the country. Protestors held placards with the names of “corrupt judges” and demanded that the head of the Supreme Court had a meeting with them. Participants of the public rally announced to […]

Mercenary marriages in Tajikistan

Posted by Vadim | in Human Rights, Domestic Affairs | on January 14th, 2007
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Yesterday I watched a news program on TV channel “Mir”. This channel covers all the CIS countries. All the news programs are made of small reports from the CIS countries. Usually, the news programs are very positive. I like watching these programs when I have a delirious mood.
The report on Tajikistan was […]

Life in Tajik jails

Posted by Vadim | in Human Rights, Health, Domestic Affairs | on December 18th, 2006
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Here is the translation of the post that I’ve placed on Tajik-Russian blog. All the sources are in Russian
Recently I’ve heard a story about one guy, who was put in jail for drug-smuggling, and after a year he died of tuberculosis. He was not even thirty years old and he had a little kid. […]

Tajikistan Blocks Access to Web Sites in the Run-Up to Presidential Election

Posted by Alexander | in Human Rights, Media, Domestic Affairs | on October 9th, 2006
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Tajik Government has finally understood that strict censorship of print media and total control over television and radio outlets is not enough to completely stifle the freedom of speech in the country. Last week, the Communications Ministry launched an unexpected attack against a number of Web sites, the last bastions of freedom of speech […]

Tajik airlines: complaints of passengers

Posted by Vadim | in Human Rights, Oddities | on August 5th, 2006
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Translation of the inscription
We fly to far and near abroad.
Our motto: flight safety and service on the high level
Our goal: promotion of integration of our country with the rest of the world.
Tajik airlines, which is owned by the state, inherited the planes after the collapse of […]

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