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A state prosecutor has asked Tajikistan's Supreme Court to extend the prison term handed down to human rights lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov.
Tajik authorities say a blast near a military court in the country’s south has left one person dead.
The commercial director of Tajikistan's Somon Air company, Alisher Rustamov, has been fired over the cancelation of the long-awaited return of regular passenger service between Dushanbe and the Uzbek capital, Tashkent.
The long-awaited return of regular civilian passenger flights from Dushanbe, Tajikistan to Tashkent, Uzbekistan has been cancelled.
A passenger jet has made the first commercial flight from Tajikistan to Uzbekistan in 25 years, months after the new Uzbek president vowed to improve ties with other Central Asian countries.
Former Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev says he has given up his seat in the city's local parliament.
A senior Tajik official says President Emomali Rahmon's recent appointment of his eldest son as mayor of the capital, Dushanbe, was "lawful."
Avalanches triggered by warm weather following heavy snowfall have killed at least seven people in Tajikistan's mountainous south.
The operations of former Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev's office are being examined by investigators two weeks after he was replaced by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon's son.
The chief of a Kyrgyz village near the Kyrgyz-Tajik border says she has been hospitalized after a clash between Kyrgyz and Tajiks living near the two Central Asian nations' frontier.
Tajikistan's Defense Ministry says the former chief of the general staff of the armed forces has died in a car accident in Dushanbe.
The office of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon's son has been moved to the former presidential headquarters in the Central Asian nation, stoking speculation that Rustam Emomali will be tapped to succeed his father.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has appointed his 29-year-old son Rustam Emomali as mayor of the Central Asian country's capital, Dushanbe.
The Tajik Foreign Ministry says that it summoned the Afghan ambassador in Dushanbe late in December and lodged a diplomatic protest over remarks made by the Afghan ambassador to Russia.
A court in Tajikistan has extended the prison term handed down to a prominent human rights lawyer.
Tajik authorities are looking into claims by an Afghan official that Taliban tanks and other heavy weapons are being repaired by Russian engineers in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan's National Bank is considering the use of President Emomali Rahmon's portrait on a proposed new 1,000-somoni banknote, which would be worth about $127.
The Tajik Foreign Ministry has revoked the accreditation of six correspondents from RFE/RL's Tajik Service.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon's third daughter, Rukhshona Rahmonova, has become a deputy department head at the country's Foreign Ministry, the latest in a series of appointments of Rahmon's close relatives to government positions.
Russia has warned that a dispute between Moscow and Dushanbe over the status of a new Russian international airport may lead to the suspension of all flights to Tajikistan.
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