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Two top officials at Tajikistan's State Agency for Drugs Control (OGMM) have been detained on suspicion of bribe-taking.
Imams at several mosques across Tajikistan have urged Muslims to support the closure of the Islamic Renaissance Party, calling for a referendum to dissolve the only officially registered Islamic party in former Soviet Central Asia.
Tajik officials say they have asked Russian authorities to help evacuate some 100 Tajik medical workers and their families from Yemen as a Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes there.
Tajikistan has begun the construction of a brand new town in a desert area in the country's north to provide housing and jobs for local residents.
Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has called on the country's intellectuals to outline the concept for the national development until 2050 that would establish a "democratic and secular country based on the rule of law."
A court in Tajikistan has sentenced a popular television anchor, Muattara Juraeva, to six years in prison after convicting her of fraud.
The head of the Collective Security Treaty Organization of the Commonwealth of Independent States says its military forces could be at the Tajik-Afghan border within three days if a conflict broke out there.
Two Tajik activists have each been sentenced to 16 1/2 years in prison for being members of a banned political opposition movement.
Tajik opposition Group 24 movement has elected its new leadership after its founding leader Umarali Quvatov was shot dead in Turkey last week
Prosecutors in Tajikistan recommended on March 12 that two alleged members of an opposition group to be sentenced to 18 years in jail.
Tajikistan is trying 23 men it says are members of a banned Islamic group the government has classified as extremist.
Rescue workers are searching for as many as 15 people who could be trapped under rubble after a fire at a shopping center in the Russian city of Kazan.
Turkish media reports say three Tajik men have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Tajik opposition figure Umarali Quvatov, who was shot dead in Istanbul last week.
Following the killing of a wanted Tajik opposition leader on the streets of Istanbul, it didn't take long for fellow oppositionists to draw comparisons to the recent assassination of Boris Nemtsov in Russia.
Fugitive Tajik opposition politician and businessman Umarali Quvatov, who once had close ties with President Emomali Rahmon, has been shot dead on the street in Istanbul.
A court in Dushanbe has sent a Tajik man to 17 and a half years in jail for insulting the president, calling for extremist actions and being a member of the banned opposition movement Group 24.
Election officials say Tajikistan's ruling party has won parliamentary elections marred by irregularities and dismissed as a "farce" by the Communist Party leader.
Apparent voting irregularities have been documented by RFE/RL as Tajikistan held parliamentary elections.
Avalanches caused by abrupt warming and heavy snowfall have killed at least five people in Tajikistan since February 22.
A Russian officer has been detained in Tajikistan on suspicions of assaulting a taxi driver and stealing his vehicle.
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