Clothing, Traditional—Tajikistan
Traditional Tajik costume developed as a part of Central Asian costume, and had common style and design features with other countries in the region. Until the t...
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Gafurov, Bobojan Gafurovich
(1908–1977), Tajik politician and scholar. Bobojan Gafurovich Gafurov led the Tajikistan Soviet Socialist Republic from 1946 until 1956 as the first secretary of the...
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Kulob
(2002 est. pop. 81,000). Kulob (Kulyab), the third-largest city in southwestern Tajikistan, lies in the mountains north of the Amu Dar'ya River. The city is situated in the Yaksu River va...
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Tajikistan—Profile
(2001 est. pop. 6.6 million). The Republic of Tajikistan emerged as an independent county after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the poorest of the post-Soviet republic...
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Tajikistan—Educational System
The educational system in Tajikistan has a strong Soviet/Russian influence. During the Soviet era (1918–1991) a comprehensive educational infrastructure and...
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Tajikistan
Republic of Tajikistan
Jumhurii Tojikistan
CAPITAL: Dushanbe
FLAG: The flag consists of a broad white horizontal stripe in the center, with a red stripe at the top and a green stripe at the...
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, is bordered by Uzbekistan to the west and north, Kyrgyzstan to the north, China to the east, and Afghanistan to the south. With an area of ...
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Tajikistan
POPULATION 6,719,567ISLAM 95 percentOTHER 5 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
Located in the mountainous region of Central Asia, the Republic of Tajikistan shares borders with Chin...
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Area: 143,100 sq km (55,300 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 7,063,000Capital:
Dushanbe
Chief of state:
President
Imomali
Rakhmonov
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Akil
Akilov
Issues of econo...
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With electricity reserves depleted, officials in impoverished Tajikistan — where residents are enduring one of the coldest winters in 25 years — said Tuesday they would be forced to cut...
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President Emomalii Rakhmon has banned high school graduation parties in this largely Muslim Central Asian nation, the latest in a string of edicts on Tajik cultural and social life.Rakhmon said he ...
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Central Asia's poorest county is also one of the world's leading transit routes for heroin, opium and other drugs from Afghanistan. Sergei Makhkamov has been caught in the flood."I tried it, I like...
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DUSHANBE, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in Tajikistan
on Wednesday outside a building where the country's prime
minister had been due to attend an EU-organised conference,
officials and witne...
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The government appointed Toshinori Shigeie, ambassador in charge
of Okinawan affairs, as ambassador to South Korea on Tuesday.
Shigeie, 62, was previously director general of the Foreign
M...
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