Abdullo Ashurov is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Tajik Service.
Tajik men will be able to legally avoid serving their mandatory two-year stint in the country's armed forces by paying a fee to the Defense Ministry.
Tajikistan's Council of Islamic Ulema has given its blessing to anti-impotence drugs for men after concluding that they can help strengthen marriages.
On the heels of a deadly terrorist attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, Tajikistan's interior minister has penned a play about a fictional mother who goes to Syria to search for her IS-fighter son.
Five Tajik shopkeepers at a Kemerovo shopping mall sprang into action when the complex caught fire on March 25.
Emomali Rahmon furthers his cult of personality by creating a gold "democracy" medal emblazoned with his own image.
No books enter Tajikistan, and no books leave -- not without official permission anyway. That's the message being sent by officials in a move widely seen as aimed at preventing the dissemination of religious and extremist material.
Authorities in a religiously conservative Tajik village have set up a band to play music at wedding parties -- and made it compulsory for hosts to hire the group.
