Tajikistan gained independence when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, but the loss of Soviet subsidies meant a drastic fall in the money available to the government to pay for schools and hospitals ...

The Tajiks consider themselves the main heirs of the trade routes of centuries ago, of the ‘first Eurasian globalisation’ in ...

The upper house of the Tajikistan parliament called the Majlisi ... bill which bans 'alien garments' as well as celebration by children during two major Muslim festivals - Eid al-Fitr and Eid ...