A 350-kilogram Tajik flag measuring 60 meters by 30 meters that once flew proudly atop the world’s largest flagpole in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe is now in pieces after strong gusts of wind ...

The remote mountain nation of Tajikistan has begun erecting the world's tallest unsupported flag pole, taking a 'flag war' with its neighbours to new heights. An Azerbaijan state flag on the sea ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — The Central Asian nation of Tajikistan plans to mark its 20th anniversary by unfurling what it says will be the longest flag ever made. City authorities in the capital ...

In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the USSR, a civil war erupted in Tajikistan, a Central Asian country bordering Afghanistan. Over 30,000 people lost their lives during the five years of ...

President Emomali Rakhmon has announced plans to build the world’s tallest flagpole — 541-feet — outside the Palace of Nations in the center of the capital, Dushanbe.

Celebrations to mark a National Flag Day took place across the whole country on November 24. ... Tajikistan Materials 26 November 2018 10:41 (UTC +04:00) Follow Trend on. Whatsapp; ...

Tajikistan today celebrated National Flag Day for the first time since it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reports.

Monday, Tajikistan’s Ministry of the Interior reported that it had arrested a group of men in Nurek, a city in the Khatlon region about 43 miles southeast of Dushanbe, for hoisting an ISIS flag ...

After a December 1 meeting in Tajikistan, security officials on both sides are proclaiming success and promising progress. Debate Over Kyrgyzstan’s New Flag Overshadows Kyrgyz-Tajik Border ...

Based on extensive primary sources, Scarborough’s book describes in minute detail how the Soviet republic of Tajikistan plunged into a bloody civil war following the collapse of the Soviet Union. ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest USSR news every morning. Thirty miles outside of Dushanbe, the dusty capital of Tajikistan, lies an aluminium smelter that will ...

The Central Asian nation of Tajikistan plans to mark its 20th anniversary by unfurling what it says will be the longest flag ever made. City authorities in the capital, Dushanbe, say the flag that ...