This photo is taken from the Flickr collection of Babasteve.

The main event in the history of Tajikistan is going to happen in the nearest future when the Tajik citizens will again elect their president and again everybody knows the results of the elections. It is interesting that the Tajik blogosphere keeps silent about this event but only tajikistan.neweurasia.net keeps reporting.

Alexander Sadikov probably is now the best expert in the Tajik blogosphere in terms of the upcoming presidential elections. He wrote many posts this month in this direction. However, the last time he wrote about the Tajik-Uzbek relations, arguing that the Tajikistan’s ambitious energy projects cause tensions with Uzbekistan. This is a really interesting post about the Tajik-Uzbek relations and how the water resources of Tajikistan can become a reason of conflict with its neighbors.

I’ve posted a post about the presidential candidates who were interviewed by the Asia Plus journalist about their advantages before Rahmonov. I made a translation of some excerpts from Russian to English and made some comments. None of candidates gave a clear answer to the question about what makes them better than Rahmonov. Probably, the main reason is that all of them are afraid to criticize their main opponent.

Sean S. Roberts wrote a good post about the Islamic Renaissance Party. He argues that the reason for the IRP’s decision not to participate in the forthcoming elections is the deal which is made with the Tajik government. But he assumes that the main reason can be a crafty policy of Muhiddin Kabiri, the new leader of IRP. He thinks that Kabiri is aware that the people of Tajikistan will eventually be ready in the long-run for an alternative to the corruption that is now widespread in the country and IRP will be the best alternative.

With the help of Technorati I’ve surfed through the Tajik blogosphere and found some other blogs which mainly contain the travel stories and some other posts on different issues.

Adrienne shares with us some beautiful pictures from Tajikistan. She traveled through Pamirs and to Dushanbe. These pictures are accompanied by thorough description.

Peter and his friend traveled from Osh to Dushanbe also through Pamirs. He gives some beautiful pictures and tells us a fascinating story about how exciting it was to travel by motorbikes through this mountainous region.

Ekhglobetrotter has opened a new blog on Tajikistan and in her first post says that finally she created a blog to describe life in Tajikistan and provide a sign of life from the other side of the world. I hope she will write some interesting stories so I can add in my next round up.

Elizabeth in her blog “Dans le meilleur des mondes possibles” is one of the most active bloggers in Tajik blogosphere. She usually posts very good stories about Tajikistan life. Recently she gave a birth to her baby. I sincerely congratulate her and hope that soon we will read her new fascinating stories about Tajikistan.

The author of Me-go reports that the US Aid goods are properly recycled in Tajikistan and gives some photos. He says that it is nice to see that his tax dollars are at work in this part of the world.

The National Bank of Tajikistan has minted two jubilee coins dedicated to the Year of Aryan Civilization at the St. Petersburg mint.

You can also look at beautiful pictures placed in the Tajik Photo Gallery and Pamirs Photo Gallery.