Greetings, gentle Registanis.  I spotted a couple interesting stories with similar themes.  The theme might best be titled, to borrow from the Daily Show, Clusterf@#$ to the Poor House [Central Asian Edition]  More after the jump. Bailouts Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbaev increased the grow...

For some time now, NATO and Russia have engaged in on-again, off-again discussions about supplying Afghanistan via the Russian Federation. So consider this sequence of events: 1. An increasingly hard-currency strapped Kremlin offers Kyrgyzstan $2 billion in aid.2. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev a...

Tajikistan in the News - and news is rarely congratulatory or happy.  Happy Old New Year to all the slavs - make it count! Russian/Tajik relations turn colder over media relations Energy Price Hikes Rumors of Earthquake send thousands outdoors to sleep Cotton cultivation to be down in 2009 Tajikist...

As if things weren’t bad enough already.  Uzbekistan has shut off the gas to Tajikistan, and now Turkmenistan isn’t sending electricity. Personally, I find the infrastructure systems of Central Asia very confusing.  Thanks to the Soviet Union, the republics originally were intertwined....

The financial crisis in the developed world is beginning to reach poor countries like Tajikistan, and labor migrants, with feet in both worlds, are among the first to feel it....

Author: Tamar Fox Posted to Jewcy: June 27, 2008 2:27 pm===== Jewish singles are more Jewishly engaged than people think (but does the word ‘engaged’ in that sentence make any other singles nervous?). Jewish single: plenty Jew-y A new report by sociologists Steven Cohen and Ari Kelman has found ...

In this personal article, Daniel shares his observations of our recent visits to four Internat schools in Tajikistan… The group thought long and hard before agreeing to post articles about the Internat schools. The fire last week had made the......