The first Soviet atomic bomb, tested in 1949, was made from Tajik uranium. Now Tajikistan is dealing with the dangerous legacy of its role in the Soviet nuclear program: 55 million tons of radioactive ...

DUSHANBE -- RFE/RL's Tajik-language website, Facebook, and YouTube appear to have been blocked again in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan. The sites became inaccessible on October 1 hours before ...

This past weekend, the Tajikistan government ordered Internet service providers (ISPs) to unblock Facebook, along with several independent news websites. The ban lasted about one week. The first site ...

Rosatom says that it has completed the work to reclaim the low-grade uranium ore factory and tailings dumps at Taboshar, near the city of Istiklol in western Tajikistan. The company also said Russia ...

A contract has been signed for the environmental remediation of the former Taboshar uranium mining and processing site near the city of Istiklol in western Tajikistan. The work - to be carried out by ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan, October 1 (UNHCR) - In a series of flights organised from Pakistan, the UN refugee agency has completed the repatriation of 251 Tajik refugees, many of whom had fled their ...

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Internet providers in Tajikistan acting on orders from authorities barred access on Monday to websites known for carrying criticism of the Central Asian nation' government, ...

The Tajikistan government on Saturday ordered Internet service providers (ISPs) to block Facebook, along with several independent news websites. The shutdown was ordered by the state-run ...

Tajikistan blocked local access to Facebook and two Russian-language sites that published an article critical of its long-serving president on Saturday, representatives of two Internet providers said.