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US Senator to Tajikistan President: End Your Government’s Use of Transnational Repression

Posted byby Marie Corrie
December 6, 2023
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2 min

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently sent a letter to the President of Tajikistan, Emomali...

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Counter Terrorism

Al-Qaida/Taliban-Linked Media Campaign Frames Islamic State Khurasan as Foreign, Tajik Group

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
October 24, 2023
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4 min

Ever since the Taliban seized power in Kabul two years ago, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has had a fractious relationship with its immediate...

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News

‘Egg Protest’ Revenge? Tajikistan Cuts Electricity to Family Homes of Exiled Activists

Posted byby Marie Corrie
October 22, 2023
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3 min

Tajikistan’s authoritarian government has been accused of using electricity as leverage against its political opponents after officials allegedly cut off power to the family...

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Politics

Kazakhstan’s Major Government Reshuffles Explained

Posted byby Marie Corrie
September 10, 2023
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7 min

Kazakhstan has witnessed significant government reshuffles this week, a few days after President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered his address to the nation on September 1....

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Internal Security

The Tyranny of Fear in Tajikistan

Posted byby Geoffrey Wallace
August 16, 2023
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8 min

On July 4, a group of 10 U.N. experts – including special rapporteurs whose mandates cover human rights defenders, religious freedom, judges and lawyers,...

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News

Tajikistan Closes Down Five NGOs In Gorno-Badakhshan

Posted byby Marie Corrie
August 9, 2023
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1 min

Five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region have been closed down over the past six months due to what authorities claim are links...

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Opinion

Prigozhin Mutiny Further Distances Central Asia from Russia

Posted byby Michael Becker
July 11, 2023
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3 min

Even before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it was clear that the Central Asian states were beginning to distance themselves from Russia’s proprietorial attitude...

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News

Tajikistan pleads poverty, spends money on unneeded luxuries

Posted byby Michael Becker
April 28, 2023
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5 min

The government of Tajikistan is so cash-starved that it can barely afford to feed its people or provide them with drinking water. It does,...

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Politics

Tajikistan Under Rahmon’s Rule

Posted byby Marie Corrie
April 8, 2023
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3 min

Declared itself an independent sovereign nation on 9 September 1991 from the Soviet Union, today Tajikistan is a constitutional republic ruled by President Emomali...

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Alikhan Smailov Re-Elected as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan

Posted byby Marie Corrie
March 31, 2023
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2 min

ASTANA – Alikhan Smailov was re-elected as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s decree on March 30, the Akorda press service reported....