Iran News Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has told Iran it can’t join. The statement was made by the Russian Foreign Minister at the group’s meeting in the Tadjik capital Dushanbe.
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | yesterday
DUSHANBE, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang ...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | yesterday
The SCO development is given priority in Russia’s foreign policy, this is our strategic permanent course. -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov; statement made at Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Dushanbe, on July 25, 2008 The nations are moving ever more closely to a nuclear confrontation between the Communist Bloc and the remnants of the Free World, but few citizens are taking serious...
Brian's Study Breaks (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Popular discontent with Tajikistan's government may be growing : "But several protests have been held recently in the capital, Dushanbe, as well as in cities like Kulob, Panjakent, and Khorog. In one case, the appointment of a local official prompted a rally. "'People are not afraid of the government's retaliation anymore,' says 22-year-old Safar, from the eastern Badakhshan region. 'What else can...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Text of report by privately-owned Tajik news agency Asia-Plus website Dushanbe, 21 July: Situation in the Norak reservoir is critical, the water level is 10.2 m lower than it was on the same day last year.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Tajik journalists and media-rights groups have rejected a draft Code of Conduct for Journalists and a so-called Professional Oath of the Journalist at a roundtable in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. The meeting was organized by the Tajik Foreign Ministry and the Tajik NGO Information and Communication. The draft documents would have required journalists to take an [...]
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
An accusation of official involvement in cross-border terrorism has inflamed tensions between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, two unevenly matched rivals for regional influence whose entrenched leaders have long jostled for the political high ground. Relations between Dushanbe and Tashkent have been fraught by border skirmishes, espionage scandals, back-biting since independence in 1991. But the suggestion...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
DUSHANBE, July 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Supreme Court of Tajikistan has postponed a trial of two suspects in the murder of Russian TV reporter Ilyas Shurpayev until July 22, a defense lawyer said on Fri...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
In 1998 Tajikistan was in the early stages of a very fragile peace after years of a deadly civil war. There was still fighting in the outskirts of Dushanbe and parts of the country were inaccessible to the government and to most foreigners. The future of the government of President Rakhmon (then Rakhmonov) seemed at best uncertain. The country'??s economy was in a severe recession, Tajik GDP having...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
DUSHANBE, July 15 (RIA Novosti) - A woman in north Tajikistan has given birth to quadruplets, all of them boys, a local doctor said on Tuesday. The newborn babies, weighing between 1.2 kgs (2.6 lbs) t...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, July 9 (UPI) — Officials from Tajikistan and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded discussions Wednesday aimed at preventing torture.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
DUSHANBE, July 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Afghan interior minister told a news conference in Tajikistan on Wednesday that international troops would start withdrawing from Afghanistan this October. NATO is...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Source: Reuters DUSHANBE, July 9 (Reuters) - Militants who carried out this week's suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital received their training at camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan's interior ...
Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
BY KONSTANTIN PARSHIN The drought that some portions of Central Asia are experiencing these days infused a sense of added urgency into a recent international conference on water management issues held in Dushanbe.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The anti-fortunetelling legislation in post-Soviet Tajikistan appears to a number of people here as a striking case of misplaced concerns.
