Sustainability| More...
 

Tajikistan

The Scandal of International Religious Persecution

Doug Bandow | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: People's Republic of China, Somalia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Laos, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Iraq, China, Eritrea, Iran, Belarus, Indonesia, Vietnam, Religious Liberty, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Islam, Turkey, Religious Persecution, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Religion, Tajikistan, Burma, Venezuela, Sudan, Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, Eqypt, World News
Doug Bandow

There is a good argument for treating religious liberty as the first freedom. If a government is unwilling to protect basic freedom when it comes to religious faith, then it is unlikely to tolerate political free-thinking either.

Read Post

Oligarch pays for party that enraged Putin

The Independent | Independent | Posted 08.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Russian Oligarchs, Moscow-Russia, Russia, Tajikistan, Home News

Farhad, a 37-year-old migrant labourer from Tajikistan, has little in common with Russia's rich. Sporting an Adidas tracksuit, squatting wit...

Read Whole Story

Water Scarcity Will Carry Heavy Economic and Human Toll: Report

Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 03.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Istanbul-Turkey, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Home News

Population growth, changing lifestyles, agricultural needs and increased energy production are some of the factors driving record-high demand for wate...

Read Whole Story

Life Harder For World's Poor As Remittances Begin To Slow

Nytimes.com | SABRINA TAVERNISE | Posted 01.25.2009 | World

Read More: Remittances, Labor Migrants, Migrant Workers Send Money Home, Tajikistan, Migrant Workers, Financial Crisis, Central Asia, Send Money Home, Financial Crisis Central Asia, Economy, World News

TOSH-TEPPA, Tajikistan -- In poverty-stricken Tajikistan, the global financial crisis is measured in bags of flour. At least that is how Bibisoro ...

Read Whole Story

Financial Crisis Halts Central Asia's Economic Boom

GlobalPost.com | David L. Stern | Posted 01.17.2009 | World

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Kyrgyzstan Migrants Russia, Central Asia Migrant Workers, Economic Crisis, Economy, Tajikistan, Migrant Workers, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan Remittances, Kyrgyzstan, World News

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan -- Maksat Bolotbekov crouched down, rubbed his blackened hands and caught the last waves of warmth from the fire's grey ashes. A...

Read Whole Story

Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Europe, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Balance of World Power, Hitler, Czarist Empire, Germany, Washington Post, Natural Gas, Saakashvili, Turkey, Communist Revolution, Czarist Russia, Russia Georgia War, Medvedev, Machiavelli, Tajikistan, Fall of the Soviet Empire, India, Trans-Caucasus Pipeline, The Washington Post, Russian Empire, Free Markets, Nazi Germany, Caspian Sea, World History, Oil Pipeline, Market Reforms, Napoleon, Azeri Chirag Gunashli Oil Fields, Putin, Iran, Kgb, Nato, 1917, Financial TImes, Balance of Power, Ukraine, Missile Defense Shield, Russia, Collapse of the Soviet Empire, Caucasus Mountains, World Power, Kazakhstan, Mikhail Saakashvili, Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Afghanistan, Mediterranean Sea, South Ossetia, Kremlin, Uzbekistan, Mt. Elbrus, Black Sea, France, Czar, Moscow, Georgia, Oil, Soviet Empire, New York Times, Realpolitik, Alexander Yeltsin, China. 1917 Communist Revolution, Cease-Fire, Baku, Shevardnadze, Turkmenistan, Ceyhan, Kygyzstan, Azerbaijan, Sudetenland, Tbilisi, Machiavellian, Balkan, Home News
Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

Read Post