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Parliament endorsed amendments that would require cell operators to register all SIM cards sold.

Dushanbe has succeeded in crushing its opposition and the international community has failed to speak up.

As Dushanbe consolidates a de facto one-party state, the West remains largely silent.

If Dushanbe is to be believed, all of its opponents and critics colluded to topple the state.

As time goes on, it will becoming increasingly difficult to figure out precisely what happened in Vahdat and Dushanbe.

A court in Tajikistan added three years to Zaid Saidov's existing 26-year sentence.

Dushanbe is dismantling the Islamic Renaissance Party, hewing to the letter, but not the spirit, of the law.