Word: tajikistan
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...Tajikistan, the troubled former republic of the Soviet Union, where some 100,000 people have died in civil unrest since early 1992, is being drawn into the brutal war across its southern border in Afghanistan. Officials in Tajikistan as well as Moscow (which is propping up the Tajik government) say the southern town of Kulyab, the political stronghold of Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov, has become a major resupply base for Afghan forces opposed to the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic fighters who have taken control of much of Afghanistan in the past year. Sources have told TIME the military aid either...
Russia, however, views the prospect of a fundamentalist Islamic Afghanistan with undisguised alarm, particularly the projection of Taliban rule or influence into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...
...human precursors whose most recent fossils are more than a million years old. Eschewing time machines and historical settings, both authors have opted to have modern paleoanthropologists come face to face with relict populations of early hominids in remote and unexplored corners of the world: the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan in Darnton's case, southern Kenya in Popescu...
BEIJING: Russian President Boris Yeltsin wraps up a three-day summit in China by signing an historic agreement to reduce tensions along the border between the two countries. Yeltsin and China's President Jiang Zemin, along with the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, have promised that their troops along the 2,600-mile border will not attack or target military exercises at each other. "This is an historic agreement for both sides," Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz says. "China is trying to build a predictable and peaceful relationship along all of its borders. Beijing wants to assure a peaceful...
...situation is similar in some of the old Soviet republics and satellites. Both former communists and former dissidents are fighting daily to maintain or reimpose state control of the media. In Tajikistan, beset by civil war, the government suppressed all independent media. In Armenia police habitually raid editorial offices. In Romania journalists are often under surveillance. In Slovakia a proposed law would provide one- to five-year jail sentences for journalists who "demean" the country from abroad. In Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary the situation is better, but everywhere governments exert pressure by controlling paper supplies, distribution facilities...