The British Ambassador to Tajikistan Graeme Loten has criticized the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) for their apathy towards the populations hardship during the past winter. The IRPT did not follow the pattern set by other opposition parties to taunt Rahmons administration for power shortage that caused newborn deaths and winter havoc in […]
Another rally in Khorog (the administrative center of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region) to be organized by Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT), led by Rahmatullo Zoirov, one of the main opponents of the current president. As the Russian proverb says дурная привычка заразна - an ill habit is foul. In our case it is […]
The disintegrated Tajik opposition is hoping to restrict the powers of the president. Recently, the parties not represented in the parliament the Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Party released a joint statement On the crisis situation in Tajikistan and ways to come out of it. Probably it was a […]
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 […]
Today president Rahmon sent a telegram of condolence to president Musharaff of Pakistan upon the death of Benazir Bhutto.
As it was reported by AsiaPlus, president Rahmon underlined in his telegram that this vile act one more time proved that terrorism does not have national or religious implications but rather it is a shameful phenomenon […]
Yesterday Tajiksitan celebrated Constitution Day. Also, last year, on that date Emomali Rahmon was reelected for his first 7 year term according to the new amended constitution. IA Regnum conducted a poll amongst the political experts on the successes and failures of President Rahmon during the past year.
According to the experts, one of the […]
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 […]
“A new party for Tajik migrant workers abroad could become a serious domestic political force even though most of its prospective voters are in Russia,” - reports NBCentralAsia. They argue that this political party could become a backbone of the new opposition. This is to some extent true because the Islamic Revival Party after […]
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 […]
This is the translation of the post on Russian-Tajik blog. I will try to translate the comments on the English-Tajik blog and post them on the Russian blog and visa versa. I will try to make a dialogue betwen the English and Russian speaking audience. Please, those who speak both languages try to leave […]
