Tricks of the Occult Trade
Reporter Shoira Yusupova joined the growing band of people consulting spiritualists and faith healers in Tajikistan.
Reporter Shoira Yusupova joined the growing band of people consulting spiritualists and faith healers in Tajikistan.
Having one’s baby at home is now an accepted option in many countries, but in Tajikistan it is seen as an older rural tradition.
Shahodat Saibnazarova reports from the Islamic Institute in Dushanbe, which recently acquired the title Imam Azzam in honour of the “Great Imam”, Abu Hanifa.
Kyrgyzstan’s giant wholesale market at Karasuu is losing out as Chinese trade shifts to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Farmers complain they are being forced to subsidise a government work-creation scheme.
A newspaper for ethnic Kyrgyz living in a remote part of eastern Tajikistan continues to be produced against the odds, as reporter Janar Akaev discovered.
Khurshed Durakhsh reports on attempts by the Dushanbe authorities to clamp down on unlicensed taxis.
Faizi Aziz reports that things are looking good in the annual battle against locusts.
People who moved down from the mountains of eastern Tajikistan following landslides several years ago say life in their new homes is so tough that they want to go back.
Analysts say poverty and a culture of dependence on government prompts many parents to place their children in state-run homes.