Tajiks
Tajiks (or Tadzhiks) are the original Iranian population of Central Asia, the present-day inhabitants of the nation of Tajikistan. Various groups of Tajiks, in Tajikistan, parts of central and ...
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Moscow (dpa) - President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Tajik
capital of Dushanbe on Friday to meet with the heads of former Soviet
republics to discuss ways of reforming the...
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DUSHANBE, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Millions of Tajiks struggled to
survive in their freezing homes on Friday as the harshest cold
snap in decades crippled the impoverished nation north of
Afghanistan. T...
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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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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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Dec 18 (Reuters) - Following are 10 facts about Uzbekistan,
which holds a presidential election on Sunday. * Landlocked Uzbekistan, around the same size as Sweden,
borders Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
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Dec 18 (Reuters) - Following are 10 facts about Uzbekistan,
which holds a presidential election on Sunday. * Landlocked Uzbekistan, around the same size as Sweden,
borders Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
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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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Afghanistan's top prosecutor accused a general of attacking and trying to kidnap him Friday, a claim that highlighting the factionalism and suspicion that dogs the U.S.-backed government of Preside...
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Moscow (dpa) - A St Petersburg jury Tuesday acquitted 17 young
men of the 2004 killing of a Vietnamese student, reflecting the
racial tension that has gripped Russia, and es...
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Tajiks
Putin arrives in Tajik capital to discuss reforming CIS
