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	<title>Comments on: Tajik Instability</title>
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		<title>By: Central Asia &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Tajikistan: The Host with the Most&#8230;.Problems?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Central Asia &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Tajikistan: The Host with the Most&#8230;.Problems?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 2. Political Instability - Though less visible, says Linn, the deteriorating economic situation and quality of public services are causing the nation&#8217;s citizenry to question Rakhmon and his political elites ability to govern effectively. Though he rightly believes, that an uprising or &#8216;color&#8217; revolution, as was the case in Kyrgyzstan, is far from happening, a more likely outcome would be an internal battle between political elites for control of the state, which we have discussed here. Either way, instability would ensue creating a myriad of problems to this already poor nation. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] 2. Political Instability - Though less visible, says Linn, the deteriorating economic situation and quality of public services are causing the nation&#8217;s citizenry to question Rakhmon and his political elites ability to govern effectively. Though he rightly believes, that an uprising or &#8216;color&#8217; revolution, as was the case in Kyrgyzstan, is far from happening, a more likely outcome would be an internal battle between political elites for control of the state, which we have discussed here. Either way, instability would ensue creating a myriad of problems to this already poor nation. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Central Asia &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Ambition is Dangerous in Central Asia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Central Asia &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Ambition is Dangerous in Central Asia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] On the contrary, the Central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and to a lesser extent Kyrgyzstan all have a political process that is far from fair and is constantly manipulated by the powers that be.  A few weeks ago I discussed Tajik&#8217;s political/governmental problems and this included the mysterious disappearance of Hasan Sadulloev, President Rahmon&#8217;s brother-in-law and powerful businessman.  It appears Sadulloev had presidential ambitions and this led to his strange vanishing. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] On the contrary, the Central Asian states of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and to a lesser extent Kyrgyzstan all have a political process that is far from fair and is constantly manipulated by the powers that be.  A few weeks ago I discussed Tajik&#8217;s political/governmental problems and this included the mysterious disappearance of Hasan Sadulloev, President Rahmon&#8217;s brother-in-law and powerful businessman.  It appears Sadulloev had presidential ambitions and this led to his strange vanishing. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Global Voices Online &#187; Tajikistan: Tajik Instability</title>
		<link>http://centralasia.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/06/24/tajik-instability/comment-page-1/#comment-2902</link>
		<dc:creator>Global Voices Online &#187; Tajikistan: Tajik Instability</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Patrick Frost says that Tajikistan, already one of the world&#39;s poorest nations, has suffered much this year with a harsh winter, continuing health concerns, and with rising food prices.   Posted by Adil Nurmakov   Share This [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Patrick Frost says that Tajikistan, already one of the world&#39;s poorest nations, has suffered much this year with a harsh winter, continuing health concerns, and with rising food prices.   Posted by Adil Nurmakov   Share This [...]</p>
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