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Tajikistan

March 2024

  • Clockwise from top left, Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Muhammadsobir Fayzov and Shamsidin Fariduni

    ‘I noticed nothing strange’: suspect’s colleagues express shock at Moscow attack

    Limited details have emerged about background of Muhammadsobir Fayzov and three other Tajik men accused of carrying out atrocity
  • People mourn outside Crocus City Hall after a terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow.

    Today in Focus
    Terrorism and the battle for the truth in Moscow

    Footage of four gunmen appears to support Islamic State’s claim that it masterminded the worst terrorist attack in Russia in two decades. But the Kremlin has put Ukraine in the frame. Andrew Roth reports

    • Putin says radical Islamists carried out Moscow attack but maintains suggestion of Ukraine role

    • The Guardian view on terror in Moscow: Putin’s cynical blame game should fool no one

    • Islamic State ‘recruiting from Tajikistan and other central Asian countries’

January 2024

  • The remains of a shipwrecked boat on a beach.

    People smugglers recruiting skippers from central Asia on Turkey to Italy route

    Boat drivers from former Soviet republics often have very little experience and no idea what they are doing is illegal, say NGOs

September 2023

  • Timur Tursunov and Firus Sasaliyev in Bratan.

    Bratan review – warm-hearted road movie is all about the journey

    Director Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s debut feature about two young brothers attempting to find their errant father is a deeply humane story about family and responsibility

June 2023

  • A couple draped in Ukrainian flags walk across Castle Square in Warsaw.

    ‘Warsaw feels like a mini Soviet Union’: how Russian is gaining ground in Poland’s capital

    Many from Ukraine, Belarus and other ex-Soviet states mostly get by in Russian – but its prevalence is starting to cause a problem

March 2023

  • A woman takes a selfie in Diyarbakir, Turkey.

    Nowruz: Kurdish new year 2023 celebrations – in pictures

    Nowruz, which has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years, is one of the most important celebrations in the greater Persian world, which includes the countries of Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey and portions of western China and northern Iraq

February 2023

  • Women Behind the Wheel.

    Women Behind the Wheel review – well-meaning road trip across Central Asia gets stuck

    Two young British directors drive the Pamir Highway in a superficial travelogue that reveals little about themselves or the women they meet along the way

September 2022

  • An image released by the Kyrgyzstan border service said to show fighting on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border in the disputed Batken region

    Fighting flares on disputed Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border, killing 24 people

    ‘Intense battles’ in the contested region is the latest outbreak of violence to hit the former Soviet Union
  • A Russian Flag flies above the coat of arms of the Soviet Union on the Russian Parliament building in Moscow.

    Former Soviet states eye opportunities as Russia struggles in Ukraine

    Moscow’s influence in the Caucasus and central Asia is being unravelled by its ‘special military operation’
  • Soldier, in profile, looks out across valley with mountains in the distance

    Rights and freedom
    Tajikistan ‘rounding up and deporting Afghan refugees’

    UN refugee agency urges authorities to end forced deportations as families say they are too scared to leave their homes

May 2022

  • composite picture of clouds of teargas enveloping youths and a wounded young man being helped by two others

    Twenty-five ethnic Pamiris killed by security forces in Tajikistan protests

    Escalating tensions erupt into regime-backed violence against the minority group in the autonomous region of Gorno-Badakhshan

April 2022

  • A snow leopard caught on a hidden camera above Lake Sarez in Tajikistan.

    The age of extinction
    Why trophy hunters in Tajikistan are unlikely saviours of the snow leopard

    Revenue brought in by westerners hunting markhor, ibex and wild sheep is being used to conserve the elusive big cat and provide income for villages in the mountainous region

February 2022

  • A Rally is held by relatives for Gulbiddin Ziyobekov on the main square of Khorog, November 26, 2021.

    ‘We want the truth’: families of ethnic Pamiris killed in Tajikistan call for justice as tensions rise

    Urgent protection for minority groups facing increased repression needed in crisis connected to escalating clashes across central Asian ex-Soviet region, say human rights groups

September 2021

  • Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan - 26 Aug 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock (12372425f) A wounded patient is brought by a taxi to EMERGENCY Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Twin bombings struck near the entrance to KabulOs airport Thursday, ripping through crowds of Afghans and foreign nationals waiting for evacuation from the country. The explosions complicated an already-nightmarish airlift just before the U.S. deadline to remove its troops from the country Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan - 26 Aug 2021

    Revealed: life inside ‘global villages’ of Islamic State jihadis in Afghanistan

    Women who joined Islamic State in Afghanistan give rare insight into international network that bombed airport

August 2021

  • Elephant, Chitwan national park, Nepal

    ‘No one comes here any more’: the human cost as Covid wipes out tourism

  • A portrait of Amrullah Saleh is put on the wall of the Afghan embassy in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He has declared himself the ‘caretaker’ head of state.

    ‘Panjshir stands strong’: Afghanistan’s last holdout against the Taliban

April 2021

  • Armed men from the village of Kyzyl-Bel on a road in Kyrgyzstan’s south-western Batken region during the fighting along the Kyrgyz-Tajik disputed border.

    Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan ceasefire holding after day of intense fighting

    Heaviest clashes in years between the two countries over disputed border leave 40 dead and 175 injured
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