Four foreign cyclists have been killed and three others injured in southern Tajikistan after being hit by a car that fled the scene afterward.
This week’s Majlis podcast was dedicated to the increasingly horrific human rights situation in Tajikistan.
Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee have called on Tajikistan to lift “a politically motivated travel ban” and allow the critically ill son of an opposition member to receive medical treatment abroad.
Uzbekistan has admitted it sheltered one of Tajikistan's most-wanted criminals for almost 20 years. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Russian author and former Soviet dissident Vladimir Voinovich has died at age 85, Russian state media, his family, and friends are reporting.
The family of a 5-year-old girl who was murdered in Russia returned to Tajikistan this week for her funeral. The girl's parents were labor migrants working abroad, and the case has caused outrage among Tajiks.
Four Russian police officers in the city of Serpukhov near Moscow have been fired over their failure in 2017 to arrest a man who is now the chief suspect in the July 22 rape and killing of a 5-year-old Tajik girl.
Tajikistan is demanding that Russia conduct a painstaking probe and impose "severe punishment" on the killer of a five-year-old Tajik girl authorities say was raped and stabbed to death in a city near Moscow earlier this week.
U.S. officials traveled to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from July 20 to July 23 to discuss economic and security cooperation with representatives from the five Central Asian republics.
The foreign ministers of countries in Central Asian say they have agreed to increase cooperation against international terrorism and religious extremism after a meeting in the Kyrgyz resort city of Cholpon-Ata.
Two media watchdogs have condemned a 12-year prison sentence against Tajik journalist Hairullo Mirsaidov and called for his immediate release, saying the charges against him for alleged financial crimes were politically motivated.
Maria the camel chose Croatia to beat England in the semifinal of soccer's World Cup earlier this week. Now she has set her sights on the final against France. Which bowl did she choose?
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