He served in Afghanistan, the Tajik SSR and Czechoslovakia before the break-up of the Soviet Union. But by this point he regarded Ukraine as his home. After Ukraine gained independence in 1991 ...

On January 16, Uzbekistan Airways announced it would be opening a new route to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, in the coming spring. That may seem like a run-of-the-mill commercial ...

As Farangis Najibullah reported for RFE/RL this week, in Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon sent parliament a list of new names for several towns and districts. The new names follow a trend in ...

Rural store in the Tajik SSR. It turned out that although Moscow and Leningrad were more expensive than Riga and Tashkent, there were more goods there, including those in short supply. So ...

A young Tajik carpenter has made a full-size wooden version of the iconic Soviet T-34 tank in time for the annual celebrations to mark the end of World War Two in Europe this week. Muhammadsharif ...

The archive’s holdings include bound notebooks, notecards, and loose-leaf papers documenting Soviet folklore collecting expeditions in the Tajik SSR and contiguous Persian-speaking regions from ...

Tajikistan's parliament approved a bill to ban the hijab on Friday, June 21. The decision follows years of restrictions on religious attire, with President Emomali Rahmon referring to the hijab as ...

The media in Central Asia has been intrigued by the story that a group of Muslim clerics in southern Tajikistan have spent their congregations' weekly donations on fixing a statue of Lenin ...

Umed Bobozoda, Tajikistan's human rights commissioner, voiced serious concerns over the mistreatment of Tajik migrants in Russia. In a letter to his Russian counterpart, Tatyana Moskalkova ...

More than 6,000 miles from his native Tajikistan, where he faced censorship and the threat of imprisonment, linguist and historian Barakatullo Ashurov has completed what he regards as a very ...

Tajikistan gained independence when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, but the loss of Soviet subsidies meant a drastic fall in the money available to the government to pay for schools and hospitals ...