#Asiaplus journalist assaulted in #Dushanbe.

Besides all sorrow and pain which #COVID19 brought into the #CentralAsia region, the crisis has shown that civil society is not dead, art is alive, and independent media are still important and brave.

Take a look how Tajik NGO is providing help to the most vulnerable people in the country, while high level officials hided themselves. This is one example but there are dozens of such initiatives. facebook.com/praguecivilsoc…

It feels like some governments are working hard just thinking how to make life of their citizens harder and the situation with #Pandemic worse. Those #Tajikistan #Uzbekistan and #Kyrgyzstan workers are locked in #Russia with no money and job and are not allowed to go home.

Wonderful piece of #street-art in #Italy (#Toscana ) "#Pinocchio (or #Buratino) is playing with local kids, while journey to #Tajikistan". By #FarrukhNegmatzade.

Here is the English version of the video which I shared earlier. Please, take a look how NGO in (my) Tajikistan is providing help to the those who need it most, most vulnerable groups. This is just one example but there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of such initiatives.

.United Nations E-Government Development Index 2020 (post-Soviet states): 🇪🇪3 Estonia 🇱🇹20 Lithuania 🇰🇿29 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺36 Russia 🇧🇾40 Belarus 🇱🇻49 Latvia 🇬🇪65 Georgia 🇦🇲68 Armenia 🇺🇦69 Ukraine 🇦🇿70 Azerbaijan 🇲🇩79 Moldova 🇰🇬83 Kyrgyzstan 🇺🇿87 Uzbekistan 🇹🇯133 Tajikistan 🇹🇲158 Turkmenistan

Public transport in #Dushanbe these days :(.

Putting the finishing touches on our first report based on the Central Asia Protest Tracker- a dataset of 980 protests in the region since 2018. The interactive protest map and this report on the preliminary findings will be released on Monday.

#Tajik #Somoni official rate dropped almost 10% against #USD and #Euro in one night.

Tajikistan experience more death in 2020 than at any time since – and possibly including – the years of civil war. The government denies a coronavirus connection. eurasianet.org/tajikistans-ex…

Excellent overview of online repression in Tajikistan: "Online insults of officials — including police officers — can lead to up to 2 years in jail. Similarly, online insults or slander of the president is punishable with 2 to 5 years behind bars." globalvoices.org/2021/03/17/in-…

Contemporary classics :(!

"I'll cover your passengers"... Taxi, Dushanbe style!

Looks like a game-changing deal (politically first).