IWPR
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Tajikistan is so short of teachers that 400 final-year pupils have stepped in to teach their younger schoolmates.
Piles of rubbish have become a common site in the streets and squares of the Tajik capital.
The latest electricity crisis in Tajikistan is the work of Uzbekistan, which is blocking supplies for political reasons, according to an economist in Dushanbe.