Tajik state television has ordered that intimate movie scenes be left on the cutting-room floor to ensure nothing rubs national values the wrong way.
At least five people have been killed in snow avalanches in Tajikistan this week, officials said.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging Central Asian leaders who are seeking greater regional cooperation and international investment in an effort to boost economic growth to place human rights at the top of their agenda.
Tajikistan's Council of Islamic Ulema has given its blessing to anti-impotence drugs for men after concluding that they can help strengthen marriages.
A prominent Tajik journalist has been sentenced to eight months in prison for breaching a court order and illegally leaving the country, his lawyer says.
Tajik men say they can't get a passport in a beard, seemingly a result of Tajik government efforts attributed to the fights for secularism and against extremism.
A Tajik man who was severely injured in the partial collapse of a residential complex in Russia on New Year's Eve has regained consciousness.
Members of a Tajik family killed in the partial collapse of a residential complex in Russia on New Year's Eve have been buried in Tajikistan's south.
The Muslim community in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk on January 5 bid farewell to four members of a single family who died under the rubble of a high-rise apartment building that collapsed on December 31. The remains are to be buried in their home Tajikistan. (RFE/RL)
Tajikistan's state language committee is recommending that the army stop using Russian military terms and switch to Tajik.
Faiziniso Vohidova, a lawyer in Tajikistan who for decades defended dissidents, rights activists, and opposition politicians, has died at the age of 55.
Some of the 39 people killed in the apartment-building collapse in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk on New Year's Eve have been buried.
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