Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Excerpt from report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia- Plus website Dushanbe, 10 October: Participants in the third interparliamentary conference of Central Asian countries and Azerbaijan adopted a joint resolution in Dushanbe today.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan's supreme court has found a former rebel warlord guilty of murdering a BBC journalist in 1995 and jailed him for 15 years, a court spokesman said on Tuesday.
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Robert Fisk, on Democracy Now!, on the insidious role of the US in the Middle East: It was a baker in Baghdad who asked me this very obvious question. He said, “Why are you”—“you” meaning Western military—“Why are you in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, French air base at Dushanbe running close as support for the British in [...]
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
As another winter of discontent looms in Tajikistan, President Imomali Rahmon’s administration is feeling heat. In response, embattled Tajik officials are lashing out against perceived enemies.
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
22 September 2008 / Asia-PLUS Daily Blitz TREATMENT CONDITIONS OF HEALTH RESORT IN GORNO BADAKHSHAN IMPROVE DUSHANBE, September 22, 2008, Asia-Plus – Pamir Media – Living and treatment conditions at the health resort Garmchashma in GBAO’s Ishkashim district have improved, the GBAO health directorate head Shodi Jamshedov said in an interview with the Khorog news agency Pamir [...]
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
DUSHANBE, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - More than 954 kg (2,101 lbs) of drugs were confiscated in Tajikistan in the course of the special operation of regional security organization members between Sep...
Unicef (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
SHARINAU, Tajikistan, 23 September 2008 – In the countryside outside Dushanbe, children in shorts and swimming suits leap into a fountain, squealing with delight. They come from a boarding school for orphans, but are spending several weeks in a summer camp where they can take a holiday from their studies and escape the heat with a swim.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Vadim reports that the mayor of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, has promised that the electricity crisis throughout the country will not hit Dushanbe this year.
tajikistan.neweurasia.net (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
During the last meeting with members of the Dushanbe legislature (Majlis), heads of local enterprises and public organizations, school principals, heads of health facilities and clerics, the mayor of Dushanbe announced that the electricity rationing throughout the country will not hit Dushanbe. Speaking at the meeting, Ubaidulloyev said that electricity rationing introduced in the country [...]
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
FOCUS IMPLEMENTS FIFTH COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PROJECT UNDER AGREEMENT BETWEEN ECHO AND AKF 15 September 2008 Asia-PLUS Daily Blitz DUSHANBE, September 15, 2008, Asia-Plus /Firdavs Murtazoyev/ — The European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) and Aga Khan Foundation UK (AKF UK) on September 12 signed an agreement to implement the fifth disaster preparedness project under...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Patrick Frost, in the wake of the Dushanbe’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization 2008 summit, analyzes the difficult situation in Tajikistan, citing energy crisis, political instability and poverty.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Some argue that in a country as poor as this, people have no option but to send children out to work. By Aslibegim Manzarshoeva in Dushanbe (RCA No. 550, 18-Sep-08)
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
By coincidence the annual SCO summit took place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, three weeks after the commencement of hostilities between Russian and Georgia, and two days after Moscow recognized the indepen...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
The trip south into the Pamirs was the real definitation of a road journey. The total trip virtually nonstop was 20 hours along very scenic but often quite frightening mountain scenary. My day started early leaving the Adventureer's Inn at 6am following by a taxi ride across town towards the airport and shared taxi stop for the Pamirs. I met a guy who looked like a 'good' driver and we decide
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
DUSHANBE, September 13 (RIA Novosti) - Two Tajik border guards were killed in a shootout with 18 Afghan militants trying to cross the border illegally, a spokesman for Tajik border guards said on Satu...
