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Russians Nostalgic for Soviet Era According to Poll
Poll respondents long for stability of Soviet times Soviet-era nostalgia still strong, 20 years on from AFP News Agency A study conducted by the Eastern Bank for Reconstruction and Development found that only 15% of Russian households think their quality of life is better compared with 15% in 2010, with over half of respondents from […]
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Gorbachev: “Treachery killed the USSR”
25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev discusses the betrayal that could have led to a bloody civil war Gorbachev: Treachery killed USSR – BBC News Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev blames “treachery” for the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991 in an interview with the BBC 25 […]
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The Return of Stalingrad
The Russian metropolis of Volgograd resumed its Soviet World War II-era name of Stalingrad on Saturday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. The name change will be accompanied by concerts, military parades, and attended by President Vladimir Putin. The city was initially named Stalingrad in 1925 after the Soviet leader […]
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Heroin: The Lifeblood of Tajikistan’s Economy
- April 29, 2012
- Afghanistan
- Asia
- CCCP
- Central Asia
- Drug trade
- drugs trafficking
- Dushanbe
- Emomali Rakhmon
- former Soviet Republic
- Heroin
- institutionalized corruption
- opiates
- Opium
- patronage networks
- Russia
- Silk Road
- Soviet Union
- Tajikistan
- Tajikistan's Drug Control Agency
- UN Office on Drugs and Crime
- United Nations
- USSR
Less than two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, former Soviet republic Tajikistan can best be classified as an economic catastrophe: Tajikistan is dependent on remittances from Tajiks living abroad and this is equivalent to roughly 45% of GDP. Further, poverty is extremely widespread, with half of the country’s population of eight million […]
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