On November 8, violence broke out at the Khujand prison in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd region. Tajik authorities have been slow in revealing details about the prison riot but it now seems that ...

A few dozen Jews, many of them Ashkenazi, still live in the capital of Dushanbe, situated about 150 miles south of the northern city of Khujand, one of the region’s oldest with a 2,500-year-old ...

Media in Tajikistan have reported that numerous inmates have been killed during a riot at a high-security prison in the northern city of Khujand. A Dushanbe-based correspondent for RIA-Novosti, a ...

For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central Asia. But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews ...

Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan are holding their first-ever summit in Khujand as they celebrate International Day of Nowruz. The meeting comes amid the final resolution of the border ...

20 May 2023 In the recent past, certain areas of Tajikistan such as the Sughd region have experienced increased cases of armed conflicts. Occasionally, escalating and dangerous conditions have ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 26. Deputy Chairman of Tajikistan's Sughd Region Anvar Yaqubi and Deputy Governor of Uzbekistan's Fergana Region, Khurshidbek Ahmedov discussed issues of further cooperation ...

MINSK, 27 May (BelTA) - Belarus’ Minsk Oblast and Tajikistan’s Sughd Province signed an action plan for 2025-2026. The document was signed by Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee ...

Sughd Region alone grows more than 1 million tonnes of fresh vegetables and fruits annually. Belarus produces high-quality confectionery while we have excellent raw materials - nuts, peanuts and ...