IWPR
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Many feel alienated by election process and do not plan to lend their votes to anyone.
The global economic crisis is beginning to result in job cuts in Russia and other countries where hundreds of thousands of Tajiks have found work, leading to fears they will return home en masse.
While the focus in Kyrgyzstan is often on ambitious hydroelectric projects like the Kambarata dam, water-powered turbines of more modest proportions are quietly whirring away in the background.
In this report, Akan Imanov went shopping to find out how people survive on a food budget of 1,000 soms a month.