The global financial crisis is now reverberating deep inside the Tajikistan's mountainous countryside, where tens of thousands of Tajik men who no longer have jobs in Russia have returned to their villages. In a country already straining to accommodate Tajik refugees from Afghanistan, the government's chronic mismanagement has amplified the power and food shortages that permeate the countryside.
Tajikistan: Land of Wet Gold
Published June 15, 2009
This 30-page spread is the first of Steppe's two-part series on water in Central Asia. In this report, Zarrina Muhammadieva describes the water supply conundrum in the mountainous republic of Tajikistan. Photographs by Carolyn Drake.
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More press credential-less street interviews and meetings today including an off the record interview with the US ambassador.
"This is why we have no electricity, no water," says Alovutdin Sololiev, waving at the broken-down traffic lights as he speeds into a major intersection, asserting a right of way not recognised by
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Carolyn Drake is a documentary photographer based in Istanbul. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to Ukraine in 2006, the Lange-Taylor Prize in 2008 and has earned awards from World Press Photo,...
