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Tajikistan has some of the worst internet in the world. And the president has finally sat up and taken notice.

While the Tajik government says little, some scant insight into what its soldiers are doing has been provided by a slew of video clips shared on social media.

Tajikistan has embarked on a campaign of expulsions of Afghan refugees amid protests from the international community.

A network of Chinese vocational schools is spreading into Central Asia, building skills and suspicions.

Several people have been put behind bars in Tajikistan for driving their daughters-in-law to suicide through insults and abuse. Officials say they want to send a message to abusive in-laws in the country, where parents often meddle in their sons' marriages and treat daughters-in-law as unpaid maids.

A self-styled future political leader of Tajikistan is jailed for three-and-a-half years for advocating terrorism via YouTube videos in which he extolled the virtues of violence and martyrdom.

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have reached a cease-fire after border clashes between the Central Asian neighbors' security forces left at least two people dead and many more wounded.