Category Archives: Tajik-Uzbek relations
The Rogun Dam Controversy: Is Compromise Possible?
Heated disputes over the allocation of energy and water have been the defining feature of relations between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan over much of the last decade. Although the distrust between the two countries has deep historical roots, the present tensions … Continue reading
Filed under Authoritarianism, Energy, Nation Building, Tajik-Uzbek relations, Tajikistan
Rahmon Balances Domestic and Foreign Pressures Over Rogun Project
On November 3, Tajik authorities announced that they had completed the main diversion tunnel of the Rogun Dam project. This means that it is now technically possible to divert the Vakhsh River from the part of the valley in which … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Energy, Foreign affairs, Politics, Tajik-Uzbek relations, Tajikistan
Tajikistan Suspends Rogun Dam Resettlement Program
On June 1, World Bank director of strategy and operations in Europe and Central Asia Theodore Ahlers announced that the Tajik government temporarily put a halt to a program for resettling tens of thousands of villagers from the projected reservoir … Continue reading
Filed under Energy, Resettlement, Tajik-Uzbek relations, Tajikistan
Tajikistan’s Ethnic Uzbeks: Poor Like Everyone, But Sidelined More
I do not usually use this blog to post articles that have not been written by me, but maybe it is time to change the practice. EurasiaNet.org has just published a very interesting article about ethnic Uzbeks living in Tajikistan. … Continue reading
Filed under Ethnic relations, Tajik-Uzbek relations, Tajikistan
Iran Interferes In Tajik-Uzbek Rail Dispute
Speaking to journalists in Dushanbe on July 12, 2010, the visiting head of the Iranian president’s office, Esfandiyar Rahim-Masha’i, accused Uzbekistan of causing a six-month delay in the launch of the first unit of the Sangtuda-2 hydroelectric power station (HEPS) … Continue reading
Filed under Tajik-Iranian relations, Tajik-Uzbek relations, Tajikistan
