Question: What did this cause when the expelled parties were replaced?
Answer: subsequently Russians dominated party positions at all levels, including the top position of first secretary

Question: What happened in the Feb 2010 election?
Answer: PDPT lose four seats in Parliament

Question: Why were parties upset in the 2005 election?
Answer: accusations from opposition parties and international observers that President Emomalii Rahmon corruptly manipulates the election process and unemployment

Question: What did the OSCE say that Tajikistan did?
Answer: "failed to meet many key OSCE commitments" and that "these elections failed on many basic democratic standards."

Question: What was the Tajikistan governments response?
Answer: The government insisted that only minor violations had occurred, which would not affect the will of the Tajik people

Question: Where is Tajikistan located?
Answer: in Central Asia

Question: How many people are living in Tajikistan?
Answer: 8 million people

Question: What is the area of Tajikistan?
Answer: area of 143,100 km2 (55,300 sq mi)

Question: What country lies to Tajikistans east?
Answer: China

Question: What seperates Tajikistan and Pakistan?
Answer: Wakhan Corridor

Question: What country borders Tajikistan to the east?
Answer: China

Question: How many people are estimated to live in Tajikistan?
Answer: 8 million

Question: What is the area of Tajikistan?
Answer: 143,100 km2

Question: What country borders Tajikistan to the south?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What country borders Tajikistan to the west?
Answer: Uzbekistan

Question: What was the first recorded history of this region?
Answer: about 500 BCE

Question: What was modern Tajikistan part of around 500 BE?
Answer: the Achaemenid Empire

Question: Who took over the territory and made it part of their empire?
Answer: Alexander the Great

Question: What tribes took control of the region in first centry CE?
Answer: Yuezhi tribes

Question: When was Islam brought to the region?
Answer: in the early eighth century

Question: What empire brought Islam practices with them?
Answer: Hephthalite Empire,

Question: What religions were practiced in the region from first centry CE to 4th centry CE?
Answer: Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism

Question: What was the rate that the GDP expanded?
Answer: an average rate of 9.6%

Question: What is the primary source of income in Tajikistan?
Answer: aluminium production, cotton growing and remittances from migrant workers

Question: What accounts for 60% of the agricultural output?
Answer: 60%

Question: What is the name of the state owned company that produces aluminium?
Answer: Tajik Aluminum Company

Question: Who is trying to attract investments for hydropower in Tajikistan?
Answer: the government

Question: What is something that the rivers in Tajikistan are good for?
Answer: hydropower potential

Question: What is the highest dam in the world?
Answer: Nurek Dam

Question: What will the project named CASA 1000 do?
Answer: CASA 1000, will transmit 1000 MW of surplus electricity from Tajikistan to Pakistan with power transit through Afghanistan

Question: What is the average amount lived on per day?
Answer: US$1.25 per day

Question: What was the total for the remittances from Tajik migrans?
Answer: estimated $2.1 billion US dollars

Question: How did Tajikistan change their economy?
Answer: by purely market-based means, simply by exporting its main commodity of comparative advantage — cheap labor

Question: What has been one of the drivers of Tajikistan's robust economic growth?
Answer: remittances

Question: What is raised locally for the domestic market?
Answer: opium poppy

Question: What all has helped with the fight against drugs?
Answer: with the increasing assistance from international organizations, such as UNODC, and cooperation with the US, Russian, EU and Afghan authorities

Question: Tajikistan is thrid in the world for what type of confiscations?
Answer: heroin and raw opium confiscations

Question: What is UNODC helping Tajikistan with to help the war on drugs?
Answer: strengthen border crossings, provide training, and set up joint interdiction teams. It also helped to establish Tajikistani Drug Control Agency

Question: What are the majority of transportation options?
Answer: via roads, air, and rail.

Question: What countries had Tajikistan been working with to use ports?
Answer: Iran and Pakistan

Question: What countries did Tajikistan agree with to build a highway and a rail way?
Answer: Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan

Question: What year was the agreement signed?
Answer: 2012

Question: How many airports does Tajikistan have?
Answer: 26 airports

Question: What is the country's main airport?
Answer: Dushanbe International Airport

Question: Where are the international flights maining going to?
Answer: Russia

Question: What is the name of the airport in the eastern half of the country?
Answer: Khorog Airport

Question: What is Tajikistans population as of July 2009?
Answer: 7,349,145

Question: What percent of the population is under 30 years old?
Answer: 70%

Question: What percent of the population are between 14 to 30 years old?
Answer: 35%

Question: What lanuage do the people of Tajikistan speak?
Answer: Tajik

Question: What are the citizens of Tajikistan called?
Answer: Tajikistanis

Question: What people live in the southeast area of the country?
Answer: The Pamiri people

Question: How are they different than most Tajiks?
Answer: distinct linguistically and culturally

Question: What mountians do the Pamiri people call home?
Answer: Pamir Mountains

Question: What school has been recognized by the government?
Answer: Sunni Islam of the Hanafi

Question: What kind of state does Tajikistan see itself as?
Answer: a secular state with a Constitution providing for freedom of religion

Question: What are the two national Islamic holidays?
Answer: Id Al-Fitr and Idi Qurbon

Question: What percent of the population is muslim?
Answer: 98%

Question: What type of religions concerns are there?
Answer: minority religious groups undermine national unity

Question: What concerns for the religions institutions are there?
Answer: a concern for religious institutions becoming active in the political sphere

Question: What is the name of the militant Islamic party in Tajikistan?
Answer: Hizb ut-Tahrir

Question: What does the Hizb ut-Tahrir aim for?
Answer: aims for an overthrow of secular governments and the unification of Tajiks under one Islamic state

Question: What do religions communities have to register with?
Answer: State Committee on Religious Affairs (SCRA) and with local authorities

Question: What does the SCRA require?
Answer: a charter, a list of 10 or more members, and evidence of local government approval prayer site location

Question: What do you have to have to gather for public prayer?
Answer: a physical structure

Question: What can happen if you do not register?
Answer: can result in large fines and closure of place of worship

Question: What is wrong with the health care system in Tajikistan?
Answer: , the system remains extremely underdeveloped and poor, with severe shortages of medical supplies

Question: How many disabled people are registered in Tajikistan?
Answer: 104,272

Question: What percent of the GDP was spent on health?
Answer: 1%

Question: What was the name of the paper that the World Bank and Tajikistan came up with?
Answer: World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

Question: How many years of school are there in the Tajikistan school system?
Answer: 11 years of primary and secondary education

Question: What do they want to impliment in 2016?
Answer: a 12-year system

Question: What is the name of one of the tertiary education institutions?
Answer: Khujand State University

Question: What is the percent of tertiary education enrollment?
Answer: 17%