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News Headlines May 3, 2015: Russia to Create IMF Rival, Venezuela Raises Minimum Wage, Fidel Dealt in Cocaine According to Former Bodyguard
Mexican Fishermen Sue BP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Does Not Accept Two-State Solution Ebola Survivors Should Use Condoms Indefinitely According to CDC Amonium Nitrate Spill in Costa Rica Venezuela Boosts Minimum Wage 30% Thousands Protest Moldova’s Government Former Bodyguard Claim Fidel Castro Trafficked Cocaine Russia Creating Rival to International Monetary Fund China Promises $46 […]
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News Headlines: April 21, 2015 – ISIS Leader Injured in Air Strike, Fukushima Dumping Nuclear Waste, Staff at Windsor on Strike, PRC Plans Modern Silk Road
Austria Recognizes Armenian Genocide Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Seriously Injured in Airstrike Toxic Waste Dumped Into Ocean from Fukushima After Outage Scandal Involving Australian Universities and Foreign Students Staff at Windsor Castle on Strike Saudi King Issues Decree Sending Saudi National Guard Troops Into Yemen Russian Prime Minister […]
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Bitcoins: The Internet’s Virtual Currency
A currency that is neither tied to a natural resource nor controlled by any central authority, bitcoins represent a unique manifestation of the dynamic changes the internet and the connected international culture it has spawned bring to the world of economics and global commerce. As covered previously here on Demagaga, bitcoins can be used to […]
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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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