Tajik judicial representatives pay a visit to Ronald McDonald during their visit to the National Judicial College in Reno. He graciously thanked his American hosts and showered the entire McHugh family with gifts of traditional Tajik garb. Reno Mayor Jeff Griffin was also given his own ornate, squared cap to wear. Leslie McHugh and her family are thanked, via interpreter Alex Kozin, for their hospitality. Part of the USSR before its collapse in 1991, Tajikistan has since endured three changes in government and a civil war.
Tajik judges are most interested in commercial law as a means of stabilizing their nation.
Also of paramount importance is a project currently underway to compile all of Tajik's laws onto a comprehensive CD-ROM to be distributed nationwide so that every citizen, lawyer and judge knows exactly what the laws are. He grinned and shook his head. I'm sure that you cannot understand these types of problems. You live in another world. They are fortunate in that respect, he thinks, because they have a chance to start from scratch and pick and choose from the many legal systems already operating worldwide.