Khiromon Baqozoda is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL's Tajik Service in Prague.
A "well-connected" couple in Dushanbe is set to go on trial for attacking the man's "second wife" in a case closely followed by Tajiks. Despite the victim being left in a coma, the case was initially dropped, but public outrage forced the Tajik president's powerful son to order a criminal probe.
A noted migrant rights defender who was being held at a Moscow airport and faced deportation to Uzbekistan says she has left Russia on a flight to Armenia.
At least 15 Tajik activists have disappeared in Russia in recent years, as Tajik officials hunt down their critics both at home and abroad. Some of them have reappeared in Tajik prisons, while the whereabouts of others remain unknown.
Immigrant songwriter Manizha vows to keep the plight of newcomers to Russian society at the fore as she performs her bouncy feminist anthem, Russian Woman, at the finals of this weekend's Eurovision Song Contest.
Tajikistan has introduced a new regulation that enables authorities to officially control the content of privately owned television and radio stations.
A sexually explicit video purporting to show a prominent female party official has been denounced as an attempt to discredit Tajikistan's Islamic Renaissance Party ahead of February's parliamentary elections.
Rahmatullo Nazarov, a 29-year-old Tajik citizen who spent three years behind bars in Russia on drug-related charges, was recently awarded 18,500 euros ($27,000) in compensation by the European Court of Human Rights. The Strasbourg-based court ruled in favor of his complaint that he was treated inhumanely during his detention.
