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A two-day ministerial conference ending on April 17 in Vienna has focused on border security in Central Asia after international military forces are pulled out of Afghanistan in 2014.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has called Russia his country's only strategic partner but said Moscow should "respect" Tajikistan.
A court in Dushanbe has started hearings into the high-profile murder of a local citizen in a Santa Claus costume.
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, imam of the Ismaili branch of the Shi'a Muslim faith, has said that an Ismaili center has been officially registered in Dushanbe under Tajikistan's law on religion.
The head of U.S. Central Command, General James Mattis, has met with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe to discuss security cooperation.
Tajik authorities have announced plans to increase household electricity tariffs by 20 percent, starting in April, in conjunction with increased energy rationing.
Tajikistan's Defense Ministry says neighboring Uzbekistan will not send troops to participate in planned regional military exercises this summer held under the banner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Tajikistan's anticorruption agency says at least 10 former convicts who were freed under an amnesty last year have recently been arrested again for allegedly bribing their way to freedom.
Two rights groups have condemned Tajikistan's state communications service for blocking Tajik users' access to social-network website Facebook and several independent news sites.
Britain’s Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Nick Harvey, has discussed with Tajik leaders possible transit routes for the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
A Tajik businessman arrested in Moscow in 2010 on a warrant from Tajikistan has not been released from custody after his term of pretrial detention expired.
A court in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd Province has given jail sentences to seven members of the banned Islamist Jamoat-i Tabligh organization.
Tajikistan's Foreign Ministry says two Iranian drivers, blocked from leaving Tajikistan for nearly a year, have now left the country.
A transport helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing all four people on board.
Tajikistan's railroad company has suspended trains traveling from the capital, Dushanbe, to the northern city of Khujand.
A new law on official languages has gone into effect in Tajikistan that removes Russian as the "language for interethnic communication," RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.
