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Society	Geography	Travel

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GENERAL

• Tajikistan Resource Page - by EurasiaNet.org
  
• Tajikistan Update
  
• CountryWatch.com - Tajikistan
  

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COUNTRY OVERVIEW

• CIA World Factbook - Tajikistan
  1. Factbook 2000
     
  2. Enhanced Version of Factbook 1994
     
  
  
• UN Human Development Report - Tajikistan
  1. Report 1996
     
  2. Report 1995
  
  
• Nations in Transit - Tajikistan - from Freedom House's 1998 annual report
  

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NEWS

• Tajikistan Update - News on Tajikistan - daily
  
• Asia-Plus
  

   International Press and News Agencies

• Washington Post - Tajikistan
  
  
  

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STATE & POLITICS

• Media in the CIS - Tajikistan - Political Background
  
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members in Tajikistan
  
• Majlisi Oli (Supreme Council) - information from the PARLINE database
  
• Tajikistan Elections Watch - by EurasiaNet
  
• Tajikistan Update - Articles on Tajikistan
  
• Profile of Emomali Rakhmonov (President of Tajikistan)
  

   Islamic Opposition

• Islam and Communism: Tajikistan in Transition - by Iraj Bashiri(1996)
• Muslims and Communists Vie for Power in Tajikistan - Iraj Bashiri (1993)
  

   Articles

• Factors Affecting Tajik Identity - by Iraj Bashiri (1998)
  
• State Administration in Tajikistan: Understanding Reality - by Farrukh Salihov (1998)
  
• Dictatorship and Civil War in Central Asia: Tajikistan - by Alan F. Fogelquist (1998)
  
• The Collapse of Soviet Rule: The Implications for Tajikistan - by Habib Shirazi ("Russian and Euro-Asian Bulletin" , October 1997)
  
• Tajik Parliament is two years old - "Asia Plus" Bulletin #20, 1997
  
• Alternative Social Institutions and the Politics of Neo-Patrimonialism in Tajikistan - by Kirill Nourzhanov (1996)
• "The Post-Soviet Fate of Tajikistan" - Shahram Akbarzadeh ("Russian & Euro-Asian Economics Bulletin" , March 1996)
  
• Independent Tajikistan - Difficult Way of Changes - by S. Olimova and M. Olimov ("Vostok" No.1 1995 , in Russian)
  
• Communist Party in Tajikistan 1992-1994 - by Saodat Olimova (in Russian)
  
• Political Parties and Multiparty System in Tajikistan - by Saodat Olimova (in Russian)
  

  
  

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LAWS

• Tajik Opposition Proposes New Constitution - PeaceWatch 1:3, 8-9 (1995)
  

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CIVIL WAR IN TAJIKISTAN

• The Tajik Conflict - an online book by Irina Zviagelskaya (1997 Moscow)
  

   Russian Involvement

• U.S. and Russian Policymaking with Respect to the Use of Force - Tajikistan - by Arkady Yu. Dubnov
  
• Russian and CIS Peace Enforcement in Tajikistan - by I.B. Neumann and S.V. Solodovnik(1995)
• Russian Policy and Tajikistan - by Lena Jonson ("Central Asia Journal" No2 1997)
  
• Russian and Uzbek Involvement - The Tajikistan Update (1997)
  
• End of Tajik Civil War Boosts Iran-Russia Friendship - Dilip Hiro (1997 Feb.)
• Inter-Tajik Dialogue within the framework of the Dartmouth Conference - by Ashurboi Imomov, Harold H. Saunders, Gennady Chufrin
  

   Bishkek Agreement

• Foes Bury The Hatchet And Agree To Multi-Party Democracy - Dilip Hiro (1997 May)

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REGIONALISM

• Welcome to the Republic of Leninabad ? - by Keith Martin ("Central Asia Journal" No.10 , 1997)
  
  

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NATIONAL SECURITY & FOREIGN RELATIONS

• Cockpit of Central Asia: Afghanistan Factor in Tajikistan's Crisis - by K. Warikoo
  
• Central Asia shocked by the Taliban movement - ASIA-PLUS,1996 No.12
  
• Tajikistan and Russia: Sources of Instability in Central Asia - by Mark N. Katz (1997)
  

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HUMAN RIGHTS

• U.S. Department of State - Tajikistan Country Report on Human Rights Practices
  1. for 1999(Feb 25, 2000)
     
  2. for 1998(Feb 26, 1999)
     
  3. for 1997(Jan 30, 1998)
     
  4. for 1996
     

  
  

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MEDIA SITUATION

• Media in the CIS - Tajikistan
  
• Tajikistan: Attacks on the Press in 1996
  
• IFEX Action Alert Service - Tajikistan
  

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ECONOMY

• BISNIS Commercial Overview - Tajikistan
  
• Republic of Tajikistan: Recent Economic Developments - IMF Staff Country Reports No.00/27 (2000)
  
• Republic of Tajikistan - Recent Economic Developments - IMF Staff Country Reports No.98/16 (1998)
  
• 1995 Country Reports On Economic Policy and Trade Practices: Tajikistan - US Dep. of State
  
• US Department of Energy / Country Analysis Brief - Tajikistan
  
• Economic reform in Tajikistan: accomplishments and problems - ASIA-PLUS (No.12,1996)
  
• Privatization in RT: The process gains speed - by Marianna Aripova (1998)
  
• Privatization in MBAR: Progress and problems - by Shohnavruz Afzalshoyev (1998)
  
• Privatization cheques - a catalyst to privatization in Tajikistan? - "Asia Plus" Bulletin #22, 1997
  
• The banking system in the Republic of Tajikistan - by Sodiq Husainov (1996)
  
• Stock market in Tajikistan: At the embryo stage - ASIA-PLUS,October 1998
  
• Reorganization of agriculture - the core of agricultural policy of the state - by Ahmadboi Ashurov (1998)
  
• The potential for production of wheat in the republic - by Inom Asrorov (1996)
  
• Energy Sector of Tajikistan - ASIA-PLUS,1996 No.12
  

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ENVIRONMENT

• State of the Environment Report 1998
  
• UN Human Development Report 1996 - Environment
  
• The Fund for Rescue of the Aral will protect the Sarez lake - "Asia Plus" Bulletin #23, 1997
  

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HISTORY

• Rewriting Tajik History - by M.S. Asimov
  
• Tajik Ethnicity in Historical Perspective - by Iraj Bashiri (1998)
  
• Khanate of Bukhara XVI-1920 - by Viacheslav Pankratov
  
• The History of a National Catastrophe - by Rahim Masov
    - Mirror
  
• The Tajik people and the Ashtarkhanids - ASIA-PLUS,November 1996
  
• From the Manghits to a Democratic State - by Iraj Bashiri (1997)
  
• The Bukhara of Sadriddin Aini - by Iraj Bashiri (1993)
  
  

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CULTURE

• Kamol Khujandi - great Tajik Poet
  
• Muscovites watched the best Tajik films - "Asia Plus" Bulletin #23, 1997
  
• Some Shashmaqam Puzzles in Tajik Music - by Faroqat Azizova
  
• Constructive Customs in the Music and Dance of the Tajiks - by Nizam Nurjanov
  
• The Role of Surud in the Mughul Dukhtar Legend - by Rushan Rahmonov
  

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LANGUAGE AND ETHNICITY

• The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles - Index of Peoples in Tajikistan
  
  
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
  (1) Bartangs ; (2) Ishkashmis ; (3) Khufis ;
  (4) Oroshoris ; (5) Roshanis ; (6) Shughnis ;
  (7) Wakhs ; (8) Yaghnabis ; (9) Yazgulamis
  
  
• UCLA Language Materials Project - Tajik Profile
  
• The Languages of Tajikistan in Perspective - by Iraj Bashiri
  
• The Law on State Language is recalled only on the day of its celebration - ASIA-PLUS,July 1998
  
  

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SOCIETY

• Narcobusiness in Tajikistan - in hands of women
  
• Dushanbe and Washington express serious concern over the Silk Route changing into Narcotic Road - "Asia Plus" Bulletin #23, 1997
  
• Criminality and Personal Security in Tajikistan - from UN Human Development Report 1996
  
• Women in Tajikistan - from UN Human Development Report 1995
  
• Women, Children and the Family - from UN Human Development Report 1996
  
• Homes and Communities in Tajikistan - from UN Human Development Report 1996
  
• Prostitution - the profession of poverty and war - "Asia Plus" Bulletin #20, 1997
  
• Formation and Development of NGOs in Tajikistan - by Ashurboi Imomov (1996 , in Russian)
  

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GEOGRAPHY

• List of name changes of cities and sites in Tajikistan since 1900
  
• Small Relief Map of Tajikistan from the National Geographical Society - 45K
  
• Topographic Map of Tajikistan for Presentation - 130K
  
• Global Gazetteer - Maps of 2964 towns and cities in Tajikistan
  

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TRAVEL

• Tajikistan Update - Travelling in Tajikistan
  
• Columbus Travel Guides - Tajikistan
  
• Travel Document Systems - Tajikistan
  
• Yahoo! Weather - Tajikistan
  
• DHL - Tajikistan
  

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