The International Crisis Group report about the upcoming failure of Tajikistan was not a surprise for many people, since everybody knows about recent developments: energy crisis (both electricity and gas), the food crisis (the threat …

[inspic=40,leftclear,fullscreen,0] Dushanbe is going to face tougher electricity rationing. This was announced today by the electricity monopolist Barqi Tojik. Beginning from today and till undetermined period the population of Tajik capital will be supplied with eleven …

Until recently, most parts of Tajiksitan have had almost no electricity: only six hours a day. But at least what came during those six hours was steady.  Now, the situation becomes worse.
Turkmenistan cut off electricity …

Dushanbe during the night, when it has electricity. Photo made by Ravshan.
In my last post I told you about the “hatred” Tajikistanis tend to harbor toward Uzbekistan, specifically its government and foreign policy.  Tajikistan and …

The problem of electricity cut-offs in Tajikistan was not that visible till yesterday. You know why? Because all media outlets, which more or less have influence on public opinion are based in Dushanbe. “Thanks to” …

Tajiks should be nominated for the award of “The main believers in rumors”, because they believe in rumors more than any other nation. Obviously, I am exaggerating but the recent rumor about the possible powerful …

Ravshan from the Russian blog uploads a beautiful picture of blue sky in Dushanbe. He says that it seemed to him that he had never seen such a blue sky in Dushanbe.

But earlier he uploaded a picture of muddy …

Usually reports made by international organization do not give the real picture because they usually play with numbers. Dry information, which says nothing. However these numbers say a lot. The latest report of WHO says …

In continuation to my story about the number of people to face hunger during the coming winter, I have found a newly published story on Eurasianet website. It says that about 20 percent of the population in …

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find information about the appeal of UN to international donors about the food crisis in Tajikistan, but I have it in Russian from Asia Plus.  Actually, during the last time, I find myself …