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

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.

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 ...

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 ...