Tajikistan News

Dushanbe - Tajikistan's president on Tuesday urged his people to donate money to charity rather than perform the annual hajj pilgrimage amid a severe economic crisis in the overwhelmingly Muslim state.

Azerbaijan, Baku, July 3 /Trend News E. Ostapenko/

A regional conference on Strengthening of cooperation in railway border passages in Central Asia ended in Balkanabat, Turkmenistan on Jul. 2.

Did you feel it? Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

During his meeting with regional administrators of Sughd province in Khujand at the end of last week, President Emomali Rahmon called on people wanting to make Hajj this year to use their funds intended for Hajj for charity, the presidential press service told Asia-Plus news agency.

The scene reminds me of the one in Apocalypse Now where captain Willard and his men encounter a surreal encampment on the Mekong river; an ephemeral outpost that marks the last stop before they reach Kurtz.

A brutal civil war rarely discussed outside of the former-Soviet Union, the civil war that occurred in Tajikistan claimed up to 100,000 casualties over the course of five years.

In August 2007, the presidents of Afghanistan and Tajikistan walked side by side with the U.S. commerce secretary across a new $37 million concrete bridge that the Army Corps of Engineers designed to link two of Central Asia's poorest countries.

Azerbaijan, Baku, June 25/ Trend News, V.Zhavoronkova /

The policy of China in Central Asia is aimed for a result in a long-term period, and in this, it differs from the policy of Russia and America, said a European expert on Central Asia, Alexander Rar

Police in the central Asian republic of Tajikistan have arrested around 40 followers of an alleged Islamist fundamentalist, a spokesman for the interior ministry said Wednesday.

Uzbekistan has increased natural-gas supplies to Tajikistan, allowing Tojiktransgaz to resume gas supplies to the Dushanbe cement plant.

Police in Dushanbe have detained the alleged leader of the banned Salafi movement, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.

Tajikistan says the alleged leader of a banned Islamic movement and dozens of followers have been arrested on charges of inciting religious hatred.

Tajik law enforcement detained 43 supporters of the Islamic movement Salafia on Tuesday evening, and these people will be indicted for fuelling inter-religious discord, a source with the Tajik National Security Committee told Interfax on Wednesday.

President Obama announced 7 new ambassadors today: James B. Foley, Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia Kenneth E. Gross, Jr.

The burial of a Tajik Army officer in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province has increased speculation about an anti-rebel operation in the eastern part of the country, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.

Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund , issued the following statement today in Dushanbe at the conclusion of his visit to the Republic of Tajikistan: "This is my first visit to the Republic of Tajikistan.

The Central Election Commission on reported Friday that at least 12 international observers have been accredited to monitor presidential election in Kyrgyzstan.

IWPR's Tajikistan radio editor Zebo Tajibaeva looks at the effects that continuing regional disputes over energy and gas are having on the country.

A former Interior Minister of Tajikistan committed suicide as attempts were made to arrest him, official sources say.

Mikhail Bushuyev, Deutsche Welle

There are many talks about fortification of Uzbek-Kyrgyz border. But there is no work underway in practice. German experts Beate Eschment spoke about the situation.