Tajik women can wear whatever outfit they want, as long as it doesn't include a miniskirt, a hijab, flat shoes, short sleeves, plunging necklines, synthetic materials....
Ten-year-old Maryam, the only member of her family to have survived an attack on the Islamic State group, has been welcomed back to Tajikistan with open arms.
The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is warning that violations of press freedom are no longer the practice of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships.
Reports say an Islamic State commander has been killed in northwestern Afghanistan, marking a rare bit of good news for Central Asians battling the spread of that militant group's brand of extremism. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.)
Tajik authorities have concluded that a recent case of mass fainting at a village school was caused by hysteria, ruling out poisoning.
Executions and death sentences continued to drop globally in 2017 after hitting record-high levels in previous years, with Iran and Pakistan remaining among the world’s top five executioners, Amnesty International said on April 12.
Contempt shown by governments for independent institutions and civil society, attacks on the political opposition and independent media, as well as an incessant push to blend the ruling party with the state, are becoming the new normal in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia, U.S.-based democracy monitor Freedom House warns in its latest report.
Authorities in Tajikistan have lodged a formal request for Turkey to extradite two Tajik opposition politicians who were detained in Istanbul on March 19.
Tajikistan's foreign minister says Dushanbe is expecting a Russian delegation to attend an international conference on water resources in Central Asia that it is hosting in June.
What are the causes of the continued friction along the Kyrgyz-Tajik frontier and what possible solutions are there to these problems?
Four members of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan were reportedly sentenced to prison earlier this week. Leaders of the party have been imprisoned already but these recent incarcerations involved average members of the party who remained in Tajikistan. It is an ominous sign as there are tens of thousands of such people still in the country.
The governors of Kyrgyzstan's southern Batken district and adjacent Isfara district of Tajikistan are scheduled to meet on April 4 following a clash between Kyrgyz and Tajik residents in an area close to a disputed segment of the border between the two Central Asian nations.
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