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  Comparative Criminology | Asia - Tajikistan
Tajikistan became fully established under Soviet control with the creation of Tajikistan as an autonomous Soviet socialist republic within Uzbekistan in 1924, and as one of the independent Soviet socialist republics in 1929.
Tajikistan is a country of origin, and possibly (and to a lesser extent) a country of transit for trafficked persons, primarily women.
Tajikistan is a party to the 1988 UN Drug Convention, and government actions in 1998 show a willingness to combat drug trafficking and other narcotics-related problems, albeit with very limited resources.
www.rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/asia_pacific/tajikistan.html   (9146 words)

  
 Tajikistan
Tajikistan is officially a republic, and holds elections for the President and Parliament.
Tajikistan is landlocked, and is the smallest nation in Central Asia by area.
Tajikistan is the poorest country of the ex-USSR and one of the poorest countries in the world.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/t/ta/tajikistan.html   (1032 words)

  
 Tajikistan, Landmine Monitor Report 2006
Tajikistan is party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its Amended Protocol II on landmines, but did not participate in the Seventh Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended Protocol II in November 2005 and has never submitted annual national reports as required under Article 13.
Tajikistan is contaminated with mines as a result of civil war in 1992-1997 and mine-laying along its borders by Russian and Uzbek forces.
Tajikistan’s State Border Protection Committee has maps of some minefields laid by government forces and by Russian troops on the Afghan border, but Tajik authorities say that in many border areas mines were dropped by helicopter, making it difficult to establish their precise location.
www.icbl.org /lm/country/tajikistan   (7412 words)

  
 Tajikistan
Tajikistan is the poorest newly independent state and one of the poorest countries per capita in the world.
Tajikistan is not a party to the New York Convention of 1958 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.
Tajikistan has a tax code that presents a sound legal basis for the tax system; however, it is undermined by inconsistent application that impedes development of small and medium enterprises.
www.state.gov /e/eb/ifd/2006/62038.htm   (4650 words)

  
 COUNTRY PROFILE: TAJIKISTAN
During this period, Tajikistan felt the influence of economic changes such as the introduction of cotton and of political forces such as the Jadadist reform movement and the bloody revolt against Russian conscription that began in 1916.
Location: Tajikistan is located on the southern edge of the Central Asian group of nations, bordering Afghanistan to the south, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and Uzbekistan to the west.
Tajikistan's withdrawal of water for irrigation from the Syr Darya and tributaries of the Amu Darya also influences the quantity of water downstream.
www.mongabay.com /reference/country_profiles/2004-2005/Tajikistan.html   (6601 words)

  
 Tajikistan
The Republic of Tajikistan (Тоҷикистон), formerly known as the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, is a country in Central Asia.
Despite its poverty, Tajikistan has a high rate of literacy with an estimated 98% of the population having the ability to read and write.
The culture of Tajikistan was originally shared with that of Uzbekistan, but during Communist rule, the cultural fabric of the region was disrupted by the Soviet leadership imposing artificial boundaries and the notion of nation-state - alien to the region - on the area.
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 Tajikistan
Travelers staying in Tajikistan three days or longer must, within three days of arrival in Tajikistan, obtain registration stamps at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or OVIR, depending on whether the purpose of the visit to Tajikistan is for official or personal travel.
The government of Tajikistan requires visitors who remain in country for more than 90 days to present a medical certificate showing that they are HIV-free, or to submit to an HIV test in Tajikistan.
The Republic of Tajikistan does not recognize dual citizenship with most countries, including the United States (with the exception of the few cases when the dual citizenship is regulated by a special interstate agreement on dual citizenship signed between Tajikistan and another state, e.g.
travel.state.gov /travel/tajikistan.html   (2662 words)

  
 Tajikistan - Gurupedia
As part of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan was initially grouped with what is now Uzbekistan in the Autonomous SSR, but was later made a separate constituent republic.
Tajikistan is completely landlocked, and is the smallest nation in Central Asia by area.
Tajikistan is covered by many mountain ranges, including the Tian Shan, and more than fifty percent of the country is above sea level.
www.gurupedia.com /t/ta/tajikistan.htm   (962 words)

  
 Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in Tajikistan (Human Rights Watch, 31-12-2004)
According to the International Organization for Migration, Tajikistan is a major country of origin for trafficked women and children.
Tajikistan owes approximately U.S. $300 million to Russia, and its fragile economy is dependent upon remittances sent home by Tajik migrant workers in Russia.
Tajikistan has assumed a heightened importance for the United States government since the 2001 military operation in Afghanistan.
hrw.org /english/docs/2005/01/13/tajiki9897.htm   (1489 words)

  
 tajikistan map and map of tajikistan information page
The Republic of Tajikistan, formerly know as Tajik, a Soviet Socialist Republic, is one of the most mountainous countries in the world.
Tajikistan is now in the early stages of a western-leaning attitude; joining NATO's Partnership for Peace and aggressively seeking a World Trade Organization membership.
Landforms Tajikistan is almost all mountains (93%), and dominated by the Alay Range in the north and the Pamir Mountains to the southeast.
www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/asia/tj.htm   (921 words)

  
 Tajikistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Republic of Tajikistan (Persian: جمهوری تاجیکستان (Perso-Arabic), Tajik: ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон (Cyrillic)) is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia.
Tajikistan's president Emomali Rahmonov(r) and Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad(l) meeting at a trilateral panel, along with Afghanistan, to improve relations among the Persian speaking nations (in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, July 2006).
Tajikistan to this date is the only country in Central Asia to have included an active opposition in its government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tajikistan   (2291 words)

  
 Tajikistan: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
Ninety-three percent of Tajikistan's territory is mountainous, and the mountain glaciers are the source of its rivers.
Tajikistan: Economy - Economy Tajikistan's economy is dependent on agriculture and livestock raising.
Tajikistan: a natural disaster; Shoring up Tajikistan's natural defenses with geospatial tools is a daunting task.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108024.html   (667 words)

  
 Tajikistan - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Tajikistan, landlocked republic in southeastern Central Asia, bordered on the north by Kyrgyzstan, on the north and west by Uzbekistan, on the east...
Dushanbe, formerly Stalinabad, capital city of Tajikistan, in the Hisor Valley.
Rakhmonov, Imamali, born in 1952, Tajik political leader, who became chairman of Tajikistan’s Supreme Soviet during the country’s civil war, which...
encarta.msn.com /Tajikistan.html   (110 words)

  
 tajikistan.neweurasia.net » HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan
Of all Central Asian countries, Tajikistan shares the longest border with Afghanistan (one of the major producers of illegal drugs in the world).
According to AIDS Foundation East West, in 1999 Tajikistan had a total of 4 reported HIV/AIDS infection cases.
UNICEF mentions Tajik workforce mobility as a contributing factor to the growth of HIV infection in Tajikistan.
tajikistan.neweurasia.net /?p=49   (634 words)

  
 Ahmadinejad sees no limit to expansion of ties with Tajikistan
The Iranian president stated that the common language shared by Iran and Tajikistan is the main factor encouraging the strengthening of bilateral relations, adding that there is no limit for the development of Iran-Tajikistan relations.
He went on to say that the construction of the Anzab and Sharestan tunnels and a hydroelectric power plant in Tajikistan by two Iranian companies indicates that there is useful cooperation underway between Iran and Tajikistan.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the main exporters of foodstuffs and construction materials to Tajikistan and imports cotton and aluminum from its Central Asian neighbor.
www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=279296   (619 words)

  
 Tajikistan Factbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tajikistan became independent in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union and has now completed its transition from the civil war that plagued the country from 1992 to 1997.
Tajikistan has one of the lowest per capita GDPs among the 15 former Soviet republics.
Tajikistan's economic situation, however, remains fragile due to uneven implementation of structural reforms, weak governance, widespread unemployment, and the external debt burden.
www.geography-site.co.uk /pages/countries/atlas/tajikistan.html   (1241 words)

  
 SSRN-Foreign Policy Dimensions of Tajikistan's Transportation Policy by Gregory Gleason
Tajikistan's recent history, economic isolation, mountainous geography and poorly developed physical infrastructure make it one of the world's most remote and difficult to integrate economies.
A key element in Tajikistan's post-conflict foreign policy is the improvement of physical transportation infrastructure.
This paper surveys Tajikistan's transportation policy with an emphasis on the eastern access road linking Tajikistan to the Persian Gulf via the Karakoram Highway.
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=531946   (224 words)

  
 Top20Tajikistan.com - Your Top20 Guide to Tajikistan!
As part of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan was initially grouped with what is now Uzbekistan in the Autonomous SSR of Tajikistan, but in 1929 was made a separate constituent republic.
The largest is Vorukh (exclave area between 95 and 130 km², population estimated between 23,000 and 29,000, 95% Tajiks and 5% Kyrgyz, distributed among 17 villages), located 45 km south of Isfara on the right bank of the Karafshin river, in Kyrgyz territory.
The last is the village of Sarvan, which includes a narrow, long strip of land (about 15 km long by 1 km wide) alongside the road from Angren to Kokand; it is surrounded by Uzbek territory.
www.top20tajikistan.com   (1459 words)

  
 Transportation Tajikistan Asia Regional
Tajikistan sees gas imports from Uzbekistan up 6.5% in 2007UzReport.com, Uzbekistan - Dec 11, 2006Uztransgaz, a subsidiary of Uzbekistan's state oil and gas company, controls gas transportation and exports in Uzbekistan.
Tajikistan to buy more Uzbek gas in 2007 at higher priceUzReport.com, Uzbekistan - Dec 11, 2006"In early January, the Uztransgaz [Uzbekistan's gas transportation company] and our company will sign an agreement on natural gas supplies to Tajikistan,"...
Meeting on gas supplies to Tajikistan scheduled for January 2007UzReport.com, Uzbekistan - Dec 7, 2006...
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/Tajikistan/Transportation   (251 words)

  
 Me-go: Around-the-World
Transportation includes $181.71 RT ticket between Yangon and Bangkok and $175 on two internal flights.
Tajikistan: Visa costs include $50 for visa in Bishkek, $30.82 to register with OVIR (twice, because they're corrupt!), and a $42 GBAO permit.
Transportation includes one flight from Dushanbe to Khorog for $60, $25 to get to Dushanbe, $160 for a jeep along the Wakhan from Khorog to Murgab and $63 to get from Murgab to Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
www.me-go.net /rtw/details/finances.html   (280 words)

  
 NationMaster - Statistics on Tajikistan. 1023 facts and figures, stats and information on Tajikistani economy, crime, ...
Tajikistan became independent in 1991 following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and it is now in the process of strengthening its democracy and transitioning to a free market economy after its 1992-1997 civil war.
Attention by the international community in the wake of the war in Afghanistan has brought increased economic development assistance, which could create jobs and increase stability in the long term.
Tajikistan is in the early stages of seeking World Trade Organization membership and has joined NATO's Partnership for Peace.
www.nationmaster.com /country/ti-tajikistan   (231 words)

  
 Tajikistan Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
Tajikistan is a patchwork of self-contained valleys and regional contrasts, forged together by Soviet nation-building and shared pride in a Persian cultural heritage that is claimed as the oldest and most influential in the Silk Road region.
Disclaimer: We've tried to make the information on this web site as accurate as possible, but it is provided 'as is' and we accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by anyone resulting from this information.
You should verify critical information (like visas, health and safety, customs and transportation) with the relevant authorities before you travel.
www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/tajikistan   (145 words)

  
 Transportation Of Tajikistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 USAID Europe and Eurasia: Tajikistan Country Page
On October 30, the Government of Tajikistan agreed to expand the new school finance mechanism to ten additional regions from the current five pilot regions of Kulob, Vahdat, Yavan, Khojand, and Khorog...
Tajikistan is a front line state in the War on Terrorism and, despite risks from its own Islamists, quickly gave the U.S. necessary access for the intervention in Afghanistan.
The most disadvantaged of the Central Asian republics, Tajikistan has limited resources, is landlocked with few transportation links, was ravaged by several years of civil war, and is one of the poorest countries in Asia.
www.usaid.gov /locations/europe_eurasia/car/tjpage.html   (993 words)

  
 Tajikistan facts from ALS International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tajikistan does not have an embassy in the US, but does have a permanent mission to the UN: address - 136 East 67th Street, New York, NY 10021, telephone - [1] (212) 472-7645, FAX - [1] (212) 628-0252; permanent representative to the UN is Rashid ALIMOV
Tajikistan depends on aid from Russia and Uzbekistan and on international humanitarian assistance for much of its basic subsistence needs.
The future of Tajikistan's economy and the potential for attracting foreign investment depend upon stability and continued progress in the peace process.
www.alsintl.com /countries/T/tajikistan.html   (1089 words)

  
 Tajikistan
Tajikistan to improve its legal system with mixed results.
Tajikistan's high birth rate means that 50% of the population is
Tajikistan is a landlocked country whose neighbors demonstrate
www.state.gov /e/eb/ifd/2005/42156.htm   (2245 words)

  
 Fars News Agency :: <?php echo($tt); ?>   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- After the completion of the 11-km long Anzab Tunnel and its inauguration in the presence of Iranian and Tajik Presidents this morning, Tajikistan is about to offer partnership in the construction of Chahar Maghzak Tunnel to the Iranian experts.
The public relations department of the Road and Transportation Ministry said Tajikistan has informed that it would raise the proposal during the current visit of the Iranian President to that country.
Construction of the Anzab tunnel is a turning point in Iran-Tajikistan cooperation, the Iranian President told senior Iranian and Tajik officials as well as thousands of Tajik people attending the inaugural ceremony of the Anzab tunnel Wednesday morning.
english.farsnews.com /printable.php?nn=8505040532   (225 words)

  
 tajikistan.neweurasia.net » Transportation
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Zerafshan valley is one of the most picturesque places in Tajikistan.
Centuries ago, the valley was the centre of Sogdiana (Sughdiyon), a wealthy and developed state on the Great Silk Road.
tajikistan.neweurasia.net /?cat=17   (239 words)

  
 Transportation Directory of Tajikistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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