http://www.rferl.org/archive/Tajikistan/latest/668/668.html RFE/RL's latest news, features, commentary, and multimedia content on Tajikistan http://www.rferl.org/img/rssLogo_RFERL.gif http://www.rferl.org/archive/Tajikistan/latest/668/668.html en-US Copyright 2010 - RFE/RL, Inc. 60 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:37:51 +0000 Pangea CMS – RFE/RL The United Nations launched an ambitious 10-year project to combat desertification in 2006. As the UN marks World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought seven years later, there is little to show for the effort. http://www.rferl.org/content/water-desertification-central-asia-un/25019469.html http://www.rferl.org/content/water-desertification-central-asia-un/25019469.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:15:11 +0000 Features internet_team@rferl.org (Eugen Tomiuc) Police in Tajikistan have found about a dozen missing children in two underground madrasahs near Dushanbe. http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-missing-children-madrasahs/25019152.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-missing-children-madrasahs/25019152.html Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:42:03 +0000 Tajikistan Tajik authorities say they are investigating how video clips showing a couple having sex ended up on the Internet. The issue is particularly sensitive since the man who admitted shooting the scene with his wife is a village imam. http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-imam-sex-video-sca/25015060.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-imam-sex-video-sca/25015060.html Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:48:37 +0000 Tajikistan internet_team@rferl.org (Mirzonabi Kholiqzod, Antoine Blua) The presidents of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan have officially inaugurated the construction of a new railway connecting the three nations. http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan-turkmenistan-tajikistan-railqay-construction/25007658.html http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan-turkmenistan-tajikistan-railqay-construction/25007658.html Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:32:22 +0000 Turkmenistan internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Turkmen Service, RFE/RL's Tajik Service) An informal summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) has taken place in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. http://www.rferl.org/content/csto-meeting-putin-rail/24999285.html http://www.rferl.org/content/csto-meeting-putin-rail/24999285.html Tue, 28 May 2013 06:34:28 +0000 Russia internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL) Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambaev says he and Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon have agreed to propose the construction of a major railroad when they meet on May 28 with other leaders in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). http://www.rferl.org/content/csto-agreements/24998315.html http://www.rferl.org/content/csto-agreements/24998315.html Mon, 27 May 2013 09:14:16 +0000 Kyrgyzstan internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service) Officials from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have confirmed that nationals from both those countries have been found recently fighting on the side of the rebels in Syria's ongoing civil war. http://www.rferl.org/content/syria-kyrgyzstan-tajikistan-rebels-fighting/24996087.html http://www.rferl.org/content/syria-kyrgyzstan-tajikistan-rebels-fighting/24996087.html Fri, 24 May 2013 10:56:01 +0000 Tajikistan internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Tajik Service, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service) In a new report, the global rights group Amnesty International documents abuses in 159 countries and territories that it says were "inflicted by those in power on those who stand in the way of their vested interests." http://www.rferl.org/content/amnesty-report-2012-human-rights-abuses/24994310.html http://www.rferl.org/content/amnesty-report-2012-human-rights-abuses/24994310.html Wed, 22 May 2013 23:01:26 +0000 Features internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL) A leading Tajik opposition figure and businessman has been been ordered held in pretrial detention for up to two months. http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-opposition-leader-detention/24993975.html http://www.rferl.org/content/tajikistan-opposition-leader-detention/24993975.html Wed, 22 May 2013 13:28:53 +0000 Tajikistan internet_team@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)