During that span he has assiduously consolidated power in his own hands, sidelining political rivals and invalidating a power-sharing arrangement that ended Tajikistan’s 1992-97 civil war.

As expected, the party of Emomali Rakhmon, who has been at the helm of the country since 1994, obtained an absolute majority ...

Tajikistan, with a population of 10 million and Kyrgyzstan, with more than seven million, are among the poorest countries in a region subject to unrest. A civil war in newly-independent Tajikistan ...

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and a civil war in the early 1990s, Tajikistan has been plunged into poverty. According to Mehrigiul Ablezova, a professor of sociology at the American ...