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updated Fri. March 8, 2024
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Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
March 21, 2018
KUWAIT CITY, March 20: A loan agreement was signed today in Dushanbe between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, whereby the fund will provide a loan in the amount of 7.5 million Kuwaiti Dinars (equivalent to about $25.5 million), to the Republic of Tajikistan, to participateÃâà...
Xinhua
March 21, 2018
KUWAIT CITY, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Kuwait has struck a loan agreement with Tajikistan worth 7.5 million Kuwaiti dinars (25.5 million U.S. dollars) to repair roads in the central Asian nation, the Kuwait News Agency said Tuesday. The Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) hopes the projectÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 21, 2018
Nowruz, the festival of the spring equinox, a ritual celebration of renewal, has for many years in Tajikistan and elsewhere in Central Asia presented an much-loved occasion for piling up food, dancing, singing and partying all week long. Vashan, a village of around 1,500 people tucked behind a crop of hillsÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 20, 2018
On March 15, the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and the speaker of Turkmenistan's parliament gathered in Astana for the first Central Asian summit since 1999. It was a ... From Columbia University in New York City, Alex Cooley, the director of the Harriman Institute, took part.
Caspian News
March 20, 2018
The Caspian region's Kazakhstan is teaming up with a neighboring Central Asian country, Tajikistan, to fight against what is a perceived common threat in the region, namely religious extremism. During the official visit of Tajikistani President Emomali Rahmon to Astana on March 14, Kazakhstan's MinistryÃâà...
Tri-City Herald
March 16, 2018
An independent think tank says China's military is ramping up its security presence in Tajikistan with troop deployments amid fears that militants based in nearby Afghanistan could strike at western China. The International Crisis Group said in a report Wednesday that China has deployed soldiers and builtÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 16, 2018
The political goings-on in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, usually don't attract attention in Ghafurov, a small, bustling town in northern Tajikistan. One notable exception, however, are the deals signed during the landmark visit to Dushanbe by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev last week. “If they deliver whatÃâà...
AzerNews
March 15, 2018
On March 9-10, 2018, at the invitation of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev paid a state visit to the Republic of Tajikistan, said a message from Uzbek embassy in Baku. During the fruitful talks held in an open, friendlyÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 9, 2018
In the boldest signal of bilateral amity to date, Uzbekistan's president announced during a seminal visit to Tajikistan on March 9 that he intends to support the major hydropower project that has been a source of tension between the two nations. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev told his Tajik counterpartÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 6, 2018
Sherova, a former state worker in the southern Tajik town of Kulob, says the turning point in her life came after her only son -- a migrant worker in Russia -- went to Syria ... Apart from occasional visits from her two daughters, who had married and moved to other towns, Sherova had little contact with others.
The Jamestown Foundation
March 6, 2018
This has been the result of the loss of familial ties by those who moved from villages into the rapidly growing cities as well as the communication ... The rise of Salafists and Wahhabists in major Tajikistani cities and among Tajik diasporas in Russian cities like Moscow have long been a concern for officialsÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 5, 2018
Sadurdinov is among a growing number of Tajik political refugees to find Poland an unwelcoming haven. He arrived in September 2017 through a border crossing near the Belarusian city of Brest. That crossing presents a natural approach point for Tajiks making their way across Russia and Belarus towardÃâà...
CNN
March 4, 2018
A bumpy 90-minute drive later, we were nearing our destination, and began to recognize the small Afghan villages that lay across the Panj River. ... This was one of many special moments from my two recent trips to Central Asia, where I photographed scenes of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan's stunning naturalÃâà...
EurasiaNet
March 1, 2018
One was west of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, near the town of Tursunzoda. Another was around two hours south of the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, and entered Tajikistan's northern Sughd region. There are now crossing points up and down the border, linking sections of the shared Ferghana Valley and areasÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 26, 2018
They left Tajikistan as a family of six, but only one would live to tell the tale of how they lived -- and most of them died -- in Iraq after joining the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. "Ten-year-old Maryam is the only surviving member of my son's family," Muhammadrahim Shoev, a farmer from a village locatedÃâà...
EurasiaNet
December 31, 1999
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during Mirziyoyev's state visit to Tajikistan. ... Residents of Tajik towns and villages near the border are already gleefully reporting the result of cheaper Uzbek imports arriving since several border crossings reopened earlier in theÃâà...
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