Just 14 minutes ago, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Khorugh, Nohijai Şuƣnon, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. The tremor was recorded after midnight on Monday 25 January 2021 at 12:01 am local …
Tajikistan Wants To Take Away Children Of Convicted Sex Workers. Then Give Us Alternatives, They Say.
In an effort to rein in prostitution, Tajikistan has drafted legislation to punish pimps and brothel owners by terminating their parental rights. Critics say the way to reduce prostitution is to …
Last Jew in Tajikistani city dies after community thrived there for centuries
Jura Abaev was the last living member of the Bukharan community in Khujand, a city that was a longtime center of Jewish presence in the region …
For centuries, Jews thrived in Khujand, Tajikistan. Now the city’s last Jew has died.
For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central Asia. But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews in …
Lawyer Gets Jail Term After Posting About Injustice In The Tajik Justice System
In Tajikistan, there are many red lines not written in the laws. A lawyer has crossed one of those lines and is now headed to prison.
Tajikistan: Authorities somehow find more room for internet censorship
Anybody who imagined authorities in Tajikistan had run out of ways to censor the internet needs to think again …
Success of Tajik woman agri-entrepreneur ‘demonstrates value of Green Economy Financing Facility’
Shamsihol Sultonova, who owns a farm in the Shahritus region of Tajikistan —has been highlighted to demonstrate the value of the Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF), backed by the European Bank …
Older People Not Spared in Tajikistan’s Crackdown
Doniyor Nabiev was just trying to help people in need. The 80-year-old man from the Rudaki region of Tajikistan had been sharing his retirement savings with the local families of political prisoners.
Tajikistan: Fresh grapes available almost year-round
Over the last twenty years, plant breeders of the Institute of Horticulture, Viticulture, and Vegetable Growing of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Tajikistan have created a wide …
Tajikistan starts work on training centre for rescuers
Tajikistan has launched work on a new training centre for rescue workers from Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan. Rustam Nazarzoda, the head of Tajikistan’s Emergency Committee, said the …