Tajikistan News

DUSHANBE . Latofat lives in the northern Tajik city of Kairakkum, some 370 kilometers north of the capital, Dushanbe.

Elections this week in two of Central Asia's five ex-Soviet republics illustrate how leaders in the region are responding to the eastward wave of democracy that began in Eastern Europe 15 years ago and recently ...

Four opposition parties of Tajikistan - the Democratic Party, the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Islamic Revival Party - have demanded annulment of results of the February 27 parliamentary ...

Russian border guards will pass the Moscow unit s stretch of the Tajik-Afghan frontier to Tajik soldiers before April s end, formalities starting, April 1, reports Tajikistan s State Frontier Guard Committee.

The latest issue of Film International, covering autumn of 2004 and winter of 2005 has hit the newsstands, according to 'Iran News'. The issue carries news on developments in Iranian cinema, film productions ...

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Tajikistan's election campaign is under way, with six political parties vying for seats in the lower house of parliament.

Bolivia, Fiji, Guyana, South Africa and Tajikistan are in the news this week. Two weeks of strikes and roadblocks have greeted the decision by the government to cut subsidies on gasoline, thereby increasing the ...

Tajikistan's state ballet has had to ask one its male dancers to take the lead role in a production of Snow Queen because there are no women who can dance the part.

As Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan prepare for parliamentary elections on 27 February, information wars are heating up in both countries.

Two nuns from a monastery in Tashkent died in the fire in the Orthodox Maria Magdalena Church in the Tajik city of Khudzhande on Monday morning.

Russia and Iran signed multimillion-dollar deals with Tajikistan on Wednesday to jointly build two power stations -- an investment long sought by the impoverished Central Asian nation.

French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie arrived Thursday in Afghanistan, where she will see in the New Year with a contingent of troops from her own country.

PESHAWAR: He talks like a hardcore Islamic militant, but sounds like a little boy lost.

The Russian Aluminium (RUSAL) Company and Tajikistan's Ministry of Energy are to sign an agreement here on Tuesday with the German Lahmayer Company on the elaboration of a feasibility study for the construction ...

For some 1 billion Muslims around the world this weekend brings the celebration of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration of breaking the fast, which marks the end of Ramadan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says terror attacks in Iraq are aimed at President Bush, not coalition forces.

Visiting Armenian officials discuss cooperation with Chinese colleagues Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan 27 Sep 04 A delegation led by Armenian President Robert Kocharyan left for China on a state visit on ...

After Tajikistan declared independence in September 1991, production and national revenue dropped, and the military and political conflict that ensued caused tremendous damage to the national economy, throwing ...

A new report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) states that millions of children in former Socialist countries are living in severe poverty.

KHATAMI PAYS TRIBUTE TO MEMORIAL OF IRAN S FIRST RULING EMPIRE IN TAJIKISTAN IRNA web site, Tehran, 12 Sep 04 Dushanbe, 12 Sept: Iranian President Seyyed Mohammad Khatami here on Sunday (12 September) paid ...

Landmines remain a concern in Tajikistan, where more than 330 people have been injured or killed by these weapons over the past 10 years.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will attend the Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Dushanbe in Tajikistan on September 14 and will later tour South Asian countries including India, ...

London, UK, February 2: Hizb ut-Tahrir, the well known non-violent Islamic political party, denies any involvement whatsoever in Monday's car bomb in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

A leader of Tajikistan's main Islamic opposition party has been jailed for 16 years for allegedly organizing a criminal group, officials said Tuesday.

Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced three men to between eight and 11 years of hard labour for running a pyramid scheme that saw thousands of Tajik women lose their savings and mortgage their ...

The trial has begun in Tajikistan of the head of a jewellery company, Jamshed Siahev, accused of cheating millions of dollars out of would be investors.

The security chiefs of six former Soviet republics said they intended to fight against drug trafficking from Afghanistan at a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (DKB) in the Tajik ...

Three men accused of operating a Tajik financial pyramid scheme that involved 56,000 investors and more than US$41 million have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 11 years, a defense attorney ...