Tajikistan bans Russified surnames
Lawmakers in a move to revive traditional names approve a bill banning identification documents containing Russified surname News Desk DUSHANBE:
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Tajik farmers told to avoid fasting
Tajikistan, where around 65 per cent of the population works in agriculture, claims to not have any cases of coronavirus.
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German police arrest four Tajiks suspected of plotting terrorist attack
The suspects are said to be members of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group News Desk Germany has detained
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Kyrgyz Tablighi infecting others after refusing to self-quarantine
Police in Kyrgyzstan’s northeastern Naryn province are preparing charges against a man infected with the coronavirus who refused to
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Central Asian regimes and power transit models
Modern Central Asian regimes remain autocratic, but are they to become hereditary quasi monarchies in the near future? At
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Ancient artefacts found on UCA Naryn campus
Herald Report In 2012, a team of archaeologists discovered ancient artifects on the Naryn campus of the University of Central
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Hunza state at twilight
History remains the slave of victors only when people internalize the master’s version of history. History can be salvaged, retrieved
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What do theaters in Tajikistan tell us?
Five-wives-of-Khodja-Nasreddin_-dir.-Olim-Salimov-Mayakovskiy-theater-photo-Ulugova Lolisanam Ulugova traces the roots, evolution and contemporary theatre in Tajikistan which goes back to ancient centuries. In her
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COVID-19: Xinjiang governor donates medical equipment for GB
202,000 face masks, 5 ventilators, 2,000 testing kits, and 2,000 medical protective clothes will be handed over to GB officials
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For safe travel, GB youth unveil charter of demand
Gilgit-Baltistan Youth Action Committee expresses its commitment to struggle for the achievement of the 15-point demands. | by By Anayat
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1931: The Silk Road meets the auto age
From the National Geographic archives, a look back at the Citroën-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition. By BILL JONES GEORGES-MARIE HAARDT was
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Kazakh, Kyrgyz nomads under Soviet rule
In his book, Nomads and Soviet Rule: Central Asia under Lenin and Stalin (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Alun Thomas examines the
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Lot Mitaar and the rise of Chitral
by Fatehul Mulk Ali Nasir Prior to Aman-ul-Mulk’s ascension to the throne of Chitral in 1858 the fortunes of
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Taliban, US sign peace deal
The peace deal was signed after 18 months of talks in Doha Sorin Furcoi Al Jazeera] Peace deal signed in
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Faculty development: Cambridge, UCA extend partnership accord
Cambridge Trust and the University of Central Asia signed an agreement extending their partnership to develop faculty across Central Asia
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