Mahmudjon Rahmatzoda is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Tajik Service.
Tajik officials are demanding that hundreds of students be conscripted into military service or face expulsion from their universities, several students and officials claim. Many Tajiks try to avoid serving in the military, which is notorious for hazing that has led to deaths or severe injuries.
RFE/RL has uncovered details about several Tajik terrorist suspects arrested last week in Germany for allegedly planning Islamic State attacks.
A small Tajik boy who contracted polio and could hardly walk has turned into a man who impresses everyone with his strength as he gets around everywhere on his hands.
Tajikistan will officially open a new French theme park in the southern city of Kulob next week, but not everyone is happy. The $4 million project has sparked debates about authorities’ priorities.
A bounty is out on a mysterious poet who uses the pen to lash out at fellow villagers and their daily routines.
Tajik authorities have attempted to place a homeless mother in an unregistered mosque after she pleaded with authorities to provide her shelter. Local residents, however, are not exactly rolling out the welcome wagon.
A Tajik bride's family watches in shock as authorities seize its wedding spread for violating new restrictions on wedding splendor.
Two Tajik pensioners are on a quest to fight their country's corruption and other wrongdoings by writing complaint letters. Thousands of them.
Tired of correcting his subordinates' grammar and spelling mistakes, a Tajik mayor has sent them back to class.
Two of Salom Yunusov's sons died as soldiers -- one in honor while serving his country, Tajikistan, and another who brought shame to the family when he was killed while fighting as a militant in Syria.
A formerly homeless Tajik mother of two is at the center of a struggle between the government and citizens who pray in unregistered mosques that the state fears could be hotbeds of extremism. Savsan Jonova recently moved into a former prayer house that the authorities confiscated from residents of the southern city of Kulob -- and her neighbors are not happy.
