Hopes that new legislation will help change culture of impunity. (more…)
Both sides say they can support each other in building new post-conflict realities. (more…)
Tajiks welcome the start of a new year with mass festivities. Navruz , which signals the arrival of spring, is marked in Tajikistan with three days of games, celebrations and traditional food. (more…)
Kyrgystan’s membership of a Moscow-led trading bloc has softened the blow for its citizens, but Uzbeks and Tajiks are clearly suffering. (more…)
Legal representatives of government opponents find themselves in trouble. (more…)
Tajikistan is hugely dependent on the funds sent home by its expat workforce, but as the Russian economy sheds low-skilled labour, experts are calling for better training so that those travelling abroad have more to offer. (more…)
Fewer jobs and a worsening exchange rate hits households supported by expats in Russia. Families of the many Tajik migrant workers who have had to return home due to economic problems in Russia are now worrying about how they will get through the coming winter.
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Law passed two years ago yet to translate into societal change. Although Tajikistan passed specific legislation to deal with domestic violence in 2012, the problem remains widespread. (more…)
How worried should Central Asian leaders be about the rising strength of insurgents in Afghanistan’s north? (more…)
School psychologists seen as crucial to identifying and heading off suicide risks. Experts in northern Tajikistan are alarmed at the rising suicide rate among young people. In the most recent case, a second-year university student in the provincial centre Khujand hanged herself. (more…)