3. Massoumeh Torfeh,‘‘Tajikistan: Opposition Disorganized as Presidential Election Nears,’’
Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty, August 24, 2006, http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/08/
ce926b40-a58f-4215-8171-025bd977ebce.html.
4. Tajikistan State Statistics Committee, ‘‘Makroekomicheskie Pokasately 2004–2005’’ [Macroeconomic Indicators 2004–2005], http://www.stat.tj/russian/macroeconomic_indicators1.htm.
5. NBCentralAsia, ‘‘Migrant Workers Rescue Families from Poverty,’’ September 14, 2007, http://
www.iwpr.net/?p=btj&s=b&o=338726&apc_state=henb; European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, Investments 1991–2007 Tajikistan, http://www.ebrd.com/country/country/taji/
sign.pdf.
6. Konstantin Parshin, ‘‘Tajikistan: World Bank Cautions Dushanbe against Tough Economic
Times Ahead,’’ EurasiaNet, November 13, 2008, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/
articles/eav111308a.shtml.
7. ‘‘Narodno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Tajikistana Popolnila Svoy Web Resours’’ [People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan has Boosted Its Online Capacity], SNGnews, http://sngnews.ru/frame
_article/5/67577.html (accessed May 21, 2009).
8. Privatization of Tajiktelecom has been planned for several years. The last target was the end of
2007, but the government did not meet it.
9. Data from the Main Department on Communications and Informatization of the Ministry of
Transport and Communication, April 2008.
10. Miniwatts Marketing Group, ‘‘Internet World Statistics: Tajikistan,’’ 2009, http://
internetworldstats.com/asia.htm#tj.
11. State Statistics Committee, http://www.stat.tj; Internet access tariffs of ISP Intercom, http://
www.intercom.tj; ISP Babilon-T, http://www.tojikiston.com.
12. Internews Network, http://www.khoma.tj.
13. A joint Tajik-American company, TACOM, stopped providing Internet service in the summer
of 2006 but it is still a licensee.
14. TAE: Trans-Asia-Europe Fiber Optic Communications Line project envisions the laying of
a 27,000-kilometer global telecommunications cable through 20 countries from Frankfurt to
Shanghai.
15. A potential investor in this endeavor is the Chinese Development Bank.
16. In 2005, Tajiktelecom became the first when it contracted ZTE Corporation to install Central
Asia’s first commercial NGN.
17. Public Fund Civil Initiative on Internet Policy (CIPI), http://www.cipi.tj/.
18. Data from the Main Department on Communications and Informatization of the Ministry of
Transport and Communication, April 2008.
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Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty, August 24, 2006, http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/08/
ce926b40-a58f-4215-8171-025bd977ebce.html.
4. Tajikistan State Statistics Committee, ‘‘Makroekomicheskie Pokasately 2004–2005’’ [Macroeconomic Indicators 2004–2005], http://www.stat.tj/russian/macroeconomic_indicators1.htm.
5. NBCentralAsia, ‘‘Migrant Workers Rescue Families from Poverty,’’ September 14, 2007, http://
www.iwpr.net/?p=btj&s=b&o=338726&apc_state=henb; European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development, Investments 1991–2007 Tajikistan, http://www.ebrd.com/country/country/taji/
sign.pdf.
6. Konstantin Parshin, ‘‘Tajikistan: World Bank Cautions Dushanbe against Tough Economic
Times Ahead,’’ EurasiaNet, November 13, 2008, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/
articles/eav111308a.shtml.
7. ‘‘Narodno-Demokraticheskaya Partiya Tajikistana Popolnila Svoy Web Resours’’ [People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan has Boosted Its Online Capacity], SNGnews, http://sngnews.ru/frame
_article/5/67577.html (accessed May 21, 2009).
8. Privatization of Tajiktelecom has been planned for several years. The last target was the end of
2007, but the government did not meet it.
9. Data from the Main Department on Communications and Informatization of the Ministry of
Transport and Communication, April 2008.
10. Miniwatts Marketing Group, ‘‘Internet World Statistics: Tajikistan,’’ 2009, http://
internetworldstats.com/asia.htm#tj.
11. State Statistics Committee, http://www.stat.tj; Internet access tariffs of ISP Intercom, http://
www.intercom.tj; ISP Babilon-T, http://www.tojikiston.com.
12. Internews Network, http://www.khoma.tj.
13. A joint Tajik-American company, TACOM, stopped providing Internet service in the summer
of 2006 but it is still a licensee.
14. TAE: Trans-Asia-Europe Fiber Optic Communications Line project envisions the laying of
a 27,000-kilometer global telecommunications cable through 20 countries from Frankfurt to
Shanghai.
15. A potential investor in this endeavor is the Chinese Development Bank.
16. In 2005, Tajiktelecom became the first when it contracted ZTE Corporation to install Central
Asia’s first commercial NGN.
17. Public Fund Civil Initiative on Internet Policy (CIPI), http://www.cipi.tj/.
18. Data from the Main Department on Communications and Informatization of the Ministry of
Transport and Communication, April 2008.
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