The lower chamber of Tajikistan's parliament has approved amendments to the laws on presidential and parliamentary elections -- lowering the eligibility age from 35 to 30 for the presidency and legislative posts in parliament's upper chamber.
A senior U.S. diplomat is visiting Kyrgyzstan.
More than 30 alleged militants who were pardoned by Tajik authorities after returning home from Iraq and Syria have gone back to the region to rejoin the extremist group Islamic State (IS), police say.
Tajikistan's Supreme Court has put the leader of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT) on trial in absentia.
Four Tajik citizens have been killed in an apartment fire in the town of Krasnogorsk, near Moscow.
She left Tajik prison with a dream and a business plan. Now Atmiya Azimova runs a successful factory that provides a second chance to fellow women ex-cons.
Top Tajik officials have been warned that they can get in trouble if their wives don't take part in volunteer work.
Amnesty International is urging Tajik authorities to "immediately and unconditionally" release prominent journalist Hairullo Mirsaidov, who has been in pretrial detention for more than a month.
A help center for HIV-positive women in the Tajik capital says it has helped several couples to meet, marry, and start a family life.
Tajikistan law enforcement sources told RFE/RL on January 22 that a Tajik student at Russia' Federal Security Service (FSB) Academy has been detained for allegedly attempting to join the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
A Roma man has given hope to his fellow residents in Tajikstan, helping to provide an education to children that he was never able to have himself. (RFE/RL's Tajik Service)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told a meeting on Central Asia and Afghanistan that addressing "inequality, exclusion, and discrimination" is crucial to stemming terrorism and extremism.
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