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Tajikistan

Polls, Politics, and Polygamy

by Mark

The preliminary tallying is now done in Tajikistan’s parliamentary elections that were held Sunday. To no one’s great surprise the incumbent People’s Democratic Party headed by president Imomali Rakhmon’s has secured a healthy majority (71.7%) of the votes. The Islamic Renaissance Party came in second with a paltry 7.7 percent although they are keen on [...]

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Tajikistan’s Unlikely Street Protests

by Christian Bleuer

About a week ago I was asked if I would be following Tajikistan’s parliamentary elections. I didn’t see the point, as the outcome was known before the actual election. But others paid more attention to the actual process and this week we have the even more predictable international reaction to the government’s solid win. The [...]

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Tajikistan’s Islamic Triangle: Acute or Obtuse Analysis?

by Mark

Digging around the archives of Asia-Plus the other day (probably Tajikistan’s best, albeit embattled news outlet). I found an informative discussion related to the existence of an “Islamic Triangle” in Tajikistan.
The dialogue featured input from three Tajik political scientists about the trifecta of the Rasht Valley, Isfara districts, Kuhistoni Maschoh (not to be confused [...]

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Roghun Rage

by Asher Kohn

Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have been feuding over energy rights, gas rights, and other natural resources for a bit now. Over the weekend, though, things took another step in the direction towards weird. Shots were almost fired, reportedly, over a cow.
By its actions, the Tajik side severely violated generally accepted international norms and bilateral agreements to [...]

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A variation on the “angry Muslims” theme

by Christian Bleuer

Hi, my name is Christian Bleuer. You may know me from such blogs as Ghosts of Alexander and The Complex Terrain Lab. I’m now too busy to keep up with my own blog, and I want to write more on north of the Amu Darya issues. So I thought Registan.net would be a nice home [...]

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NYT Promotes Tourism in Tajikistan

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Last week The New York Times published an article by Andy Isaacson who related his interesting and detailed observations from touring Tajikistan, focusing especially on the Pamir Mountains, the “Roof of the World.” I am sure every Tajik citizen will take pride when reading it. For example:
“East meeting West, North meeting South: since [...]

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Rahmon Reminisces About His Days in Samarkand with Karimov

by Nathan Hamm

One would think that all Central Asian presidents would know better than to be frank and open around a group of journalists. Either Emomali Rahmon forgot this, was drunk, or meant for his short diatribe against Islom Karimov the other day to make it out to the public.
First the Russian:
«К Каримову я очень хорошо [...]

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Look Out Kid, It’s Something You Did

by Asher Kohn

Let’s try something different today. A big part of some folks’ frustration with getting involved in Central Asian happenings is that they have a difficult time jumping in to the deep-end of the subject matter that gets covered here. To remedy that, I’m going to try to explain some trends in energy policies within Central [...]

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Militants in the Valley

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The map shows Isfara [Исфара] and the “A” is Vorukh, both cities in Tajikistan, though one is in an enclave inside Kyrgyzstan.  The area is part of Central Asia’s most densely populated zone, the Fergana Valley.
Last week there was a shootout in the Fergana Valley.  The Valley is one of the most complex geographic/political divisions [...]

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Another late post…

by michaelhancock

…but better late than never. This one hails from Tajikistan. The main reason it caught my eye is rather academic. There is a paper that I am finishing for a class last semester, and that paper is on language and alphabet changes in Central Asia. It’s more exact than that, but [...]

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