Tajikistan: New Concerns Over Female Suicides
Disturbing trend sees mothers driven to desperate measures.
Disturbing trend sees mothers driven to desperate measures.
Hopes that new legislation will help change culture of impunity.
Tajiks welcome the start of a new year with mass festivities.
Kyrgystan’s membership of a Moscow-led trading bloc has softened the blow for its citizens, but Uzbeks and Tajiks are clearly suffering.
Long before dawn, women spread out through the capital city armed only with twig brooms.
Experts warn that online access will be imperilled if new laws are put into effect.
Legal representatives of government opponents find themselves in trouble.
Activists move abroad in anticipation of restrictions.
Fewer jobs and a worsening exchange rate hits households supported by expats in Russia.
Rising instability in northern Afghanistan prompts security rethink.