Tajikistan

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Top US general holds talks with Tajikistan president

AFP American Edition 106 days ago

General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, held talks Monday in Tajikistan with President Emomali Rakhmon on military cooperation in the region. Security is increasingly a concern for Tajikistan, the poorest ex-Soviet state, and four gunmen from ...

Top US general in Tajikistan for talks: official

AFP American Edition 106 days ago

General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, flew into Tajikistan Monday for top-level talks with the government in Dushanbe, US and Tajik officials said. Petraeus, whose visit comes as US President Barack Obama weighs sending more troops ...

Tajikistan drops Russian language, risks Kremlin's ire

AFP Global Edition 125 days ago

Tajikistan's president on Wednesday signed into law legislation dropping Russian as an official language, a move likely to irk the Kremlin, already wary of the language's decline in its former Soviet satellites. The law, which was passed by the ex-Soviet state's parliament ...

Tajik migrants divorce by SMS, causing grief at home

AFP Global Edition 133 days ago

Nodira knew that life would be difficult when her husband left their home in Tajikistan for a job packing lorries in distant Russia, but they had two children and needed the money to survive. What she never imagined was that their marriage ...

Tajikistan says no to beards, yes to galoshes for teachers

AFP Global Edition 133 days ago

Teachers aged under 50 in Tajikistan can no longer grow beards but are allowed to give their lessons in rain boots, according to new government guidelines published Monday. "Men over 50 are allowed to have beards no more than three centimeters (1.2 ...

Record 131 economies reform business rules: WBank

AFP Global Edition 154 days ago

With the global economy in the deepest recession in 60 years, a record 131 economies reformed business regulation in the fiscal year ended in May, a World Bank report showed. "Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times," recorded 287 reforms between June ...

EU to begin phasing out standard lightbulbs

AP News 163 days ago

EU to begin phasing out traditional lightbulbs to help curb climate change The EU will start making the transition from power-draining lightbulbs to more energy efficient ones Tuesday, the European Commission said. Several nations including Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Philippines ...

Medvedev in Central Asia to bolster Russian clout

AFP Global Edition 191 days ago

President Dmitry Medvedev Friday opened a major Russian-owned hydroelectric plant in Tajikistan and headed to a regional summit as Moscow seeks to firm its influence in the region. Medvedev inaugurated the 720-million dollar Sangtudinskaya plant in southern Tajikistan alongside Tajik President Emomali ...

Police car blown up during summit in Tajik capital

Reuters US Online Report World News 194 days ago

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - A bomb blew up a police car on Thursday evening in the Tajik capital Dushanbe where the presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Russia were holding security talks, an interior ministry source said on Friday. Tajikistan, a volatile nation north ...

Presidents meet for security summit in Tajikistan

AFP Global Edition 194 days ago

The presidents of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan met in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on Thursday for an unusual security summit amid growing concerns about Islamic militancy. Afghanistan and Pakistan are both fighting bloody insurgencies led by Islamic militants while Tajikistan is ...

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