Women in Tajikistan are being advised by the government to dress more "Tajik-style" and not wear either revealing Western ...

Neither Western monitors, nor media, were allowed to observe a poll characterized by the lack of genuine opposition in a ...

Just weeks after a four-day border war in 2022, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon couldn't shake hands. Now, as they prepare to put a border dispute behind them, they are ...

"In Tajikistan, women have always faced pressure ... and Islamists in a civil war that killed tens of thousands of people in the 1990s. The authorities have since tried to strengthen a divided ...