News Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan: Tajikistan's Pressure On 'Informal Leaders' Of Gorno-Badakhshan Angers Locals In Restive Region
Tajikistan has increased pressure on influential figures in Gorno-Badakhshan, a volatile region that the central government has trouble exerting full control over. Three prominent natives were recently charged with inciting ethnic hatred in a move that sparked anger and suspicion among locals.
News Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan: What's Behind The Tumult In Tajikistan's Restive Gorno-Badakhshan Region?
The latest deadly unrest in the Tajik region of Gorno-Badakhshan came after authorities rejected a list of protesters' demands, though problems in the remote area have a long history. Officials say ...
News Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan: 5 Tajik Men Deported From Russia Appear In Pretrial Detention In Tajikistan
The parents of five young Tajik men from the volatile Gorno-Badakhshan region (GBAO) told RFE/RL on July 1 that the sons had been arrested and are being held in a pretrial detention in GBAO's capital, Khorugh, on unspecified charges.
News Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan: New Project Aims to Help Improve Access to Electricity in Tajikistan’s Remote Regions
To ensure access to electricity for vulnerable communities in Tajikistanâs remotest regions along the western foothills of the Himalayas, the World Bankâs Board of Executive Directors approved financing for the Tajikistan Rural Electrification Project.
News Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan: Tajik dissidents attempt to challenge ruling class from Poland
But in his native Tajikistan, he is considered an "extremist". Sherzamonov is from Khorog in eastern Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, which borders Afghanistan, and is a local ...
News Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan: Tajikistan's Unconquerable Gorno-Badakhshan Region
Yodgor Fayzov has just been named head of Tajikistan's eastern Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region in what appears to be the government's latest attempt to increase control over an area that arguably ...
News Tajikistan Gorno-Badakhshan: Tajikistan: Opposition figures pass through prison revolving doors
On April 18, Prague-based news website Akhbor reported that Saodatsho Adolatov, the one-time head of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan cell in the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region, had ...
