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But bureaucrats have historically stood for something else entirely. As the sociologist Max Weber argued in his 1921 classic “Economy and Society,” bureaucrats represent a set of critical ...

Its resolution opens a path to friendship, cooperation and economic development." The Kyrgyz-Tajik border is a relic of Soviet mapmaking since Moscow’s bureaucrats hastily divided the region into ...

Tajikistan sits on the far end of this spectrum as the most firmly anti-Taliban Central Asian country. President Emomali Rahmon’s government believes that the IEA constitutes an illegitimate regime.

Tajikistan has demonstrated robust economic growth, with a significant expansion of 8.3% in 2023 and 8.2% in early 2024. This was driven by increased revenue from gold exports and public ...

DUSHANBE -- Qadam Ismatov has no country to call home. The 60-year-old ethnic Tajik, who was once known for criticizing the Tajik government, has been left stateless and stranded in Tajikistan ...

Tajikistan's government passed a law banning ... coup attempt in which General Abdulhalim Nazarzoda, a key government bureaucrat, lost his life. Meanwhile, he turned his attention to what his ...

Tajiks were the principal scholars and bureaucrats of Central Asia's major cities right up to the time of the Russian Revolution. The famous medieval polymath Avicenna was an ethnic Tajik ...

That after 30 years, various Kyrgyz presidents and Rahmon — who has been Tajik president since 1994 — have not been able to settle the border is a major failing. On September 14, when Kyrgyz ...

Kyrgyz, Tajik leaders meet, agree on ceasefire Fighting escalated from shootouts to tanks and rocket artillery Kyrgyzstan says Tajik troops entered Kyrgyz village Conflict stems from disputed ...

As the Taliban continues to maintain that it doesn’t allow foreign fighters in Afghanistan, a Tajik national and commander for the Al Qaeda-linked Jamaat Ansarullah remains in control of several ...