Under terms of the 1997 peace agreement, 30% of government jobs in Tajikistan went to former rebels.
Clearing customs in Tajikistan requires 18 bits of paper from different government agencies.
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He is also unhappy about the inclusion of Islamists in Tajikistan's new government.
Russia has long stationed troops in Tajikistan, ostensibly to protect it from the Taliban, who now control almost all of Afghanistan.
EBRD's bankers prefer swinging Budapest, pretty Ljubljana or scenic Prague to the more austere delights of Dushanbe (in Tajikistan) or Ashgabat (Turkmenistan).
However few seats the Islamists eventually get in Tajikistan's legislature, other regimes will be worried that their own Islamic movements will be encouraged.
For many small countries they accounted for a large chunk of GDP in 2007, for example in Tajikistan (46%), Moldova (38%) and Lebanon (24%).
The infection rate risk of users in Tajikistan is 61.1 percent of systems there coming under attack from malware at least once in the quarter.
Its Voice of America radio broadcasts to Pakistan are hampered by obsolescent transmitters in Tajikistan and it has no TV broadcasts in Urdu or other native dialects.
For four months last year, Islamic militants sustained an insurgency into neighbouring Uzbekistan and Kirgizstan from their bases in Tajikistan, where they were protected by leading Islamic politicians.
Uzbekistan's autocratic regime also fears an Islamic-leaning government in Tajikistan.
With the passing of many Shashmaqom masters, the overwhelming majority of presentday performers in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are graduates of the Tashkent Conservatory, which offers training in Shashmaqom composition.
The scandalous imprisonment of a Russian pilot in Tajikistan and Russia's response of rounding up and deporting Tajik workers from Moscow speak louder than all the windy rhetoric in Mr Putin's Eurasian manifesto.
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You may be able to persuade the pilot to drop you off at Dushanbe when he flies his return leg, which is to a Russian military base in Tajikistan where the plane is maintained.
Uzbekistan's determination to wield its power in the region have led to a series of disagreements with Russia, most spectacularly in 1998 in Tajikistan, where Uzbekistan was accused of supporting a failed coup against the Russian-backed government.
In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China.
In 2013, in Tajikistan, two more training sessions are planned on how to prepare nomination papers for inclusion in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, as well as for the identification, documentation and inventory of intangible cultural heritage.
UNESCO: Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage - 2003 Convention
"This is why back in 1997, we had to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Tajikistan when the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee moved in next door, and why, 13 years later, the Treasury Department caught the same group in cahoots with Hezbollah, " said Rubin, who recently wrote about the issue for Commentary magazine.
Alexei Malashenko, an expert on Central Asia at the Carnegie Moscow Centre, argues that unless it wants to repeat the mistake it made in neighbouring Tajikistan whose Islamists the Russians criticised, only to see some of them wind up in government the Kremlin needs to think about the sort of regime that is likely to follow Mr Karimov's, whenever that may be.
Other major events marking the Year include World Water Week, in Stockholm (Sweden) from 1-6 September, a conference on water cooperation in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), also in September, and the Water Summit, which will take place in Budapest (Hungary) on 10 and 11 October.
Other major events marking the Year include a conference on water cooperation to be held in August in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), World Water Week in Stockholm (Sweden) from 1-6 September, and the Water Summit, which will take place in Budapest (Hungary) on 8 to 11 October.
Y. that caters to 350 Jewish students whose families formerly lived in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Prominent opposition figures are behind bars in Kirgizstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.
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Uzbekistan and Tajikistan agreed in May with Russia to try to counter the spread of extremist Islam.
Peace in Afghanistan, if it lasts, should in principle also offer Tajikistan new possibilities for economic development and trade.
In Soviet times, Tajikistan like other Central Asian republics, particularly Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan used to take far too much water from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for grandiose irrigation schemes, mainly for cotton farming.
Part of a series of seminars for local specialist, the training was organized by the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty and supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Tajikistan National Commission for UNESCO.
UNESCO: Culture Sector - Intangible Heritage - 2003 Convention
Since Uzbekistan and Tajikistan gained independence in 1991, many measures have been taken to safeguard Shashmaqom.
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