Renewed challenges to government control in the strategic center of Tajikistan threaten to split the country in two. The Tajik army appears undermotivated and overtaxed, and Russia is loath to involve its troops in anything more than guarding the Tajik- Afghan border by BRUCE PANNIER IN CENTRAL TAJIKISTAN, A battle is being waged that is […]

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