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A summit of a 27-member regional grouping called the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) opened on June 15 in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Kyrgyz capital to attend a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional grouping led by Moscow and Beijing.
The former warden of a prison in Tajikistan's northern city of Khujand has been handed a prison sentence over a deadly riot in November in which dozens of people were killed, a Tajik official has told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity.
An Iranian Varesh Airlines flight has landed in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, marking the resumption of air travel between the two countries after an eight-month pause.
European Council President Donald Tusk has arrived in Tajikistan at the start of a four-day tour of Central Asia.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in Dushanbe for talks with Tajikistan's political and military leadership.
Relatives have held funerals for some of the victims of a May 19 riot at a prison in Vahdat, east of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. Interior Ministry officials said the violence left 29 inmates and three guards dead, though other sources put the death toll much higher.
Tajikistan's Justice Ministry said three prison guards and 29 inmates were killed in a riot that broke out in a maximum-security prison, the second deadly prison clashes to hit the the country in the last six months.
Students and lecturers are being pushed by the Tajik state to serve as online "trolls," according to personal testimonials and documents obtained by RFE/RL.
Foreign diplomats have called on Tajikistan's authorities to allow open access to the Internet across the Central Asian country.
Conservationists have captured images of a striped hyena in Tajikistan. It's a rare sighting of a species at risk of extinction.
Tajikistan has repatriated 84 minors from Iraq, where their Tajik mothers have been imprisoned under charges of belonging to the extremist group Islamic state (IS) or are awaiting trial.
Relatives of a spokesman for Tajikistan’s border service say that he was arrested earlier this month, confirming media reports that he was detained, but that they do not know where he is.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has canceled a government's decision to increase Internet fees in the Central Asian country in the face of online protests.
A court in Tajikistan has sentenced a former member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) to 15 years in prison after a controversial extremism trial.
Prominent Tajik actress Musharrafa Qosimova, known as "the mother of Tajik theater," has died at the age of 100 in Dushanbe.
Authorities in the Tajik town of Kulob received a World Bank grant of around $160,000 to build a new school. Three years after it opened, the school started to collapse and teachers and students were forced to abandon it.
The American mother of one of four foreign cyclists killed in a terrorist attack in Tajikistan last year has said she will seek financial compensation from the Central Asian country.
Kyrgyz authorities have evacuated residents of two villages near a disputed section of its border with Tajikistan following deadly clashes in the area.
Two people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in two days of clashes on the disputed border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
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