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American Troops, Bukhara Uzbekistan & Afghan War
... as launching pads for the 30,000 additional troops heading to the Afghanistan war, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have had high level US diplomatic and military visits. In 2005 the US Air Force was thrown out of ... Comment?
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His Majesty Receives Tajik Minister
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Bandar Seri Begawan - His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam, granted an audience to Hamrokhon Zafri, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Tajikistan at Istana Nurul lman yesterday. Comment?
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Tajiks Fear First Swine-Flu Death
A woman suffering from swine-flu-like symptoms has died in northern Tajikistan in what could be the country's first reported death from the H1N1 virus, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports. Comment?
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'SMS Divorces' Cut Tajik Migrants' Matrimonial Ties To Home
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Aziza Kobilova, a 25-year-old housewife in eastern Tajikistan's Rasht region, recently received notice that her marriage of four years was over. Comment?
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Practice Leaves Tajik Women To Pick Up The Pieces
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Aziza Kobilova, a 25-year-old housewife in eastern Tajikistan's Rasht region, recently received notice that her marriage of four years was over. Comment?
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HIV Infection On The Rise In Eastern Europe, Central Asia
... HIV diagnoses are also rising in other countries, including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, which now has the largest number of cases in Central Asia. Injecting drug use remains the primary route of ... Comment?
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Tajik Wrongly Imprisoned In Russia Finds Justice In Strasbourg
... so we are sure that this victory is final." After being freed from Russian prison in 2007, Nazarov returned to Tajikistan. Today he is married and has a young daughter. But in search of justice and the restoration of his honor, Nazarov plans to take ... Comment?
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Point of view: China's imbalanced trade with Central Asia
... and if a small portion of this will be directed to Central Asia the economies of the poorest countries such as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan will change overnight. China is often talking about the Great Silk Road that is passing through Central Asia ... Comment?
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Tajik Wrongly Jailed In Russia Finds Justice In Strasbourg
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... this victory is final." Not An Uncommon Story After being freed from Russian prison in 2007, Nazarov returned to Tajikistan. Today he is married and has a young daughter. But in search of justice and the restoration of his honor, Nazarov plans to ... Comment?
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Dictator-lit: The Tajiks in the Mirror of History
Historically spurious and spiritually confused, Emomalii Rahmon's presidential history of Tajikistan plays fast and loose with notions of national identiity, but it could have been far, far worse ... A new dignified post-Soviet identity? a a Tajik family begs under a picture of president Emomalii Rahmon. Comment?
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Kyrgyzstan: Allow Rights Monitors into Country
... be denied entry or deported in 2009. Bakhrieva, the former head of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law in Tajikistan, had been invited to Kyrgyzstan as an independent expert by the Kyrgyz ombudsman's office. In September, she provided advice ... Comment?
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Power ranges - Central Asia struggles to meet energy demands
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Remains of a water pipeline near Rogun, a town 120 km east of the capital, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 12 February 2006. Comment?
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Afghan marijuana smuggler stopped near Tajik border
... accident involving a 19-year-old Afghan drug smuggler took place late on Wednesday. An investigation is underway. Tajikistan is a major smuggling route for heroin from neighboring Afghanistan, the world's largest heroin producer. An estimated 90% of ... Comment?
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Female Ex-Cons Struggle to Find Jobs in Tajikistan
... IWPR. "At least here I can work - " I sew bedsheets for hotels in the workshop." This is Roza's second stretch in Tajikistan's only prison for women, located some 70 kilometres from the capital Dushanbe. After spending six years locked up for drug ... Comment?
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Tajikistan: Alternating Currents
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Tashkent says it will stop transmitting electricity to Tajikistan this winter. So Dushanbe may withhold water from Uzbekistana s cotton fields next summer. Comment?
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Uzbekistan withdraws from Central Asian power grid
... conditions for a more stable and reliable operation of the national energy systems," Uzbekistan's Ambassador to Tajikistan Shoislam Shokasymov said in Dushanbe. Shokasymov pointed out the Soviet Union-era Central Asian power grid is "outdated and ... Comment?
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Tajikistan envoy offers hope to beleaguered b...
Tajikistan has a total population of seven million and every house has two to three bicycles. Comment?
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Uzbekistan Withdrawing From Regional Power Grid
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... with its three Central Asian neighbors. The move could leave Uzbekistan's impoverished neighbors, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, facing severe electricity shortages during the winter months. Khusrav Ghoibov, a top official at the Tajik Foreign Ministry, ... Comment?
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Central Asia, Eastern Europe Scarred By AIDS
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... HIV diagnoses are also rising in other countries, including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, which now has the largest number of cases in Central Asia. Injecting drug use remains the primary route of ... Comment?
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Tajikistan: Dushanbe May Stop Water Flow as Uzbekistan Pulls Plug on Power
For more than a decade Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have had a rocky relationship. But now, following an announcement by Tashkent that it is withdrawing from the Central Asian electricity grid, bilateral ties may take a dangerous nosedive. Comment?
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