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26.02.2024
Tajikistan, Uzbekistan install water-monitoring stations on border

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have inaugurated a pair of upgraded flow-monitoring stations on transboundary canals in a measure designed to lay the ground for improved collective water resource management in the region. … Successful dialogue in this kind of format is increasingly seen as indispensable to ensure that Central Asia is spared the gravest consequences of a looming water shortage crisis.

Source: EurasiaNet
05.01.2024
Tajikistan's media landscape in its 'worse state' since independence, watchdog says

The media landscape in Tajikistan is in its "worst state” since the Central Asian nation’s civil war in the 1990s as the country’s authoritarian president, Emomali Rahmon, establishes himself as an “absolute power with no tolerance for dissent,” a media watchdog said.

Source: RFE/RL
02.09.2023
Tajikistan resumes border relations with Afghanistan in a sign of thawing tensions

The administration of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region on September 2 said border cooperation with Afghanistan has resumed in several districts on the orders of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon after three years of closures, a sign of a potential normalization of relations between two countries. 

Source: RFE/RL
23.08.2023
Gorno-Badakhshan not in welcoming mood for Tajik president on first visit since bloody clampdown

Rahmon’s unannounced visit from August 15-18 marked his first to the region since at least 34 people were killed in Dushanbe’s brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in Khorugh and the nearby Rushon district in May 2022, with several activists also being arrested and sentenced to long prison terms.

Source: RFE/RL
13.06.2022
Amid unrest in GBAO region, Tajik authorities report killing of two ‘criminal leaders’

Authorities in Tajikistan said two “criminal leaders” have been killed in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), the latest in a series of arrests and killings in the Central Asian republic’s restive east following recent anti-government protests.

Source: RFE/RL
18.05.2022
Tajikistan launches ‘anti-terror operation’ in restive region

Tajikistan has launched an “anti-terror operation” in a restive region that borders Afghanistan and China and has long been a flashpoint of tensions, police said on Wednesday.

Source: The Defense Post
28.01.2022
Tajikistan says two dead after clashes with Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan said Friday that two of its citizens were killed and 10 injured during overnight clashes at its contested border with Kyrgyzstan, where a ceasefire is now in place.

Source: The Defense Post
22.09.2021
Tajikistan begins release of thousands of prisoners under mass amnesty

Tajikistan has begun releasing the first group of prisoners under a mass amnesty affecting some 16,000 people. Tajik lawmakers earlier this month approved an amnesty law proposed by President Emomali Rahmon to mark the former Soviet republic's 30th anniversary of independence on September 9.

Source: RFE/RL
10.10.2020
Tajik election sees autocratic leader Rahmon set to extend rule

Voters in Tajikistan cast ballots in a presidential election on October 11 that is expected to extend authoritarian President Emomali Rahmon’s rule over the impoverished Central Asian nation for another seven years.

Source: RFE/RL
14.09.2020
President Rahmon, four other men registered as presidential candidates

[…] In Tajikistan's last presidential election, in 2013, Rahmon was reelected by a landslide, with 84 percent of the vote. None of the five presidential elections won by Rahmon has been deemed free and fair by Western election observers.

Source: RFE/RL