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Tajik couples are being ordered to meet with psychologists and lawyers ahead of marriage as part of a pilot project in the capital, Dushanbe, to lower domestic violence and divorce rates. The recommendations of these professionals can block a wedding application if a couple is deemed unsuitable.
A Tajik teacher connects with students through rap music.
A flamboyant Tajik blogger has been roughed up in Moscow, as seen in video posted by his alleged attackers. He has since said he's afraid to leave home.
Western diplomats have expressed concern over the “periodic blockage” of news and social-media websites in Tajikistan.
Tajikistan has asked Russia for an explanation after a Tajik man died while in the custody of Moscow police.
A Tajik woman has spoken of being beaten and thrown out of her home after her husband accused her of not being a virgin when they married, despite a test to the contrary. Such accusations can have disastrous consequences for women in Tajikistan.
The main surviving suspect in an attack that killed four foreign cyclists on a mountain road in Tajikistan in July has been convicted of "murder with extreme violence" and other crimes and sentenced to life in prison, participants in the closed-door trial say.
The top U.S. diplomat in Tajikistan has met with officials from the Prosecutor General's Office and the Foreign Ministry to discuss deadly unrest at a prison in the northern city of Khujand.
The state prosecutor in Tajikistan is seeking a sentence of life in prison for the main suspect in an attack that killed four foreign cyclists on a mountain road in July, RFE/RL has learned.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon inaugurated a new $3.9 billion mega-dam on November 16. He hopes it will solve the Central Asian country's energy needs and transform Tajikistan into an energy exporter.
A 22-year-old English-language teacher, his four students, and five other young men have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges in Tajikistan.
The warden of a prison in Tajikistan that witnessed a deadly riot earlier this month has reportedly been arrested.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has launched a new hydroelectric station that had been vehemently opposed for years by the late leader of neighboring Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov.
After an initial denial, Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security (KDAM) says that the authorities have arrested 12 people suspected of plotting an attack on the Russian military base in Dushanbe earlier in November.
At least 50 inmates were killed in a prison riot in Tajikistan last week, sources have told RFE/RL, doubling the death toll in violence that the government has said almost nothing about publicly.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has criticized the country's security forces for their "failure" to prevent" the killing of four foreign cyclists in late July.
The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed that one of its "fighters" was responsible for starting the deadly prison riot in northern Tajikistan on November 7.
Sources close to local authorities have told RFE/RL that several inmates were killed when a riot broke out overnight in a prison in Tajikistan's northern city of Khujand.
At least 100 people in Tajikistan's restive Gorno-Badakhshan region have rallied in the provincial capital, demanding an investigation into an incident in which a police officer shot and wounded three local men.
Marat Orifov, a Tajik filmmaker and actor whose work won accolades in the Soviet era, has died in Dushanbe at the age of 83.
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