Tajikistan News

Upsurge in militant activity in Central Asia will be contained, although security should be stepped up in border areas.

One of the most visible effects of depression in Tajikistan is the sight of men hanging around in groups, hoping someone will take them on for a daya s work.

The authorities in Tajikistan have been forced to impose a oeelectricity quotasa on consumers as a way of saving power in the run-up to winter.

The Republic of Tajikistan almost completed the harvesting campaign, agrarians continue harvesting grains in the mountain regions only, declared Muhammady Ormonov, the chief of the department of industrial crops and grains of the Ministry of agriculture of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has relocated next door to Tajikistan, but analysts doubt it will move back into Central Asia.

Sangtuda-1 plant director Rakhmetulla Alzhanov said Tajik state power company Barki Tojik is jeopardizing the stable delivery of electricity to domestic consumers by dragging its feet over the debt.

Russia's Rosatom state-owned corporation is starting detailed talks on the development of uranium deposits in Tajikistan, its deputy head Nikolai Spassky told the press in Dushanbe on Friday.

Azerbaijan, Baku, November 13 / Trend News, V.Zhavoronkova, E.Ostapenko /

The probability of impact of instability in Afghanistan on the Central Asian states is unlikely, but the conflict situation in the neighboring country maintains them under threat, experts say.

Tajik authorities have relocated 30 families from Tajikistan's eastern Rasht district to an area near Dushanbe because of chronic flooding, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.

11. President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon met with the Azerbaijani defense minister Safar Abiyev.

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon and Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar Abiyev discussed military and technical cooperation at a meeting in Dushanbe today, EA CA-News said.

Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Nov. 10 / Trend News H. Hasanov /

Ashur Abdurahim has been accredited as the new Tajik ambassador to Turkmenistan. He recently presented his credentials to Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow.

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 9 / Trend News M.Aliyev /

Azerbaijani Defense Minister Colonel General Safar Abiyev left for Dushanbe to attend a meeting of the CIS defense ministers, the Ministry told Trend News on Nov.9.

Some 70% of Tajikistan was left without electricity on Monday as the country's Nurek-Regar hydropower plant shut down, a power holding spokesman said, RIA Novosti reported.

After months of turbulence in relations with Russia, the Tajik leader seems to have smoothed things over and gained significant concessions.

Not so long ago, entrepreneurs opening businesses in Tajikistan would routinely complain of visits by government inspectors from myriad state agencies, each with a discerning eye for anything amiss and a voracious appetite for somoni, the local currency.

Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon has signed an amnesty measure granting freedom to some 10,000 prisoners, according to reports reaching here from Dushanbe.

When it comes to the use of child labor to help bring in Tajikistan's cotton crop, the government's heart may be in the right place.

Tajik security services seized 28 persons suspected of membership in international terrorist organizations this year, National Security Committee deputy head Abdullo Nazarov said on Monday, Interfax reported.

An IWPR report on how the authorities are targeting an Islamic missionary group they regard as subversive was praised for offering insights and opinions that questioned whether a hard-line approach is always the right one.