In his analysis of Central Asia published in Foreign Affairs, Charles William Maynes, President of the Eurasia Foundation, wrote that Tajikistan is “more open” than all other Central Asian countries. Other sources describe this mainly mountainous, small country of six million people as a “limited pluralism” with “low-level instability.”
After all, exceptional to other Central Asian countries, the Tajik government of President Emomali Rahmonov signed a peace agreement with the country’s Islamists in 1997 and included some of them, though reluctantly and less than what he promised, in his government. Since then, the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan is a legally recognized party with a newspaper published in the capital Dushanbe. The same happened to the Tajikistan Democratic Party, another group previously aligned with the Islamists, that received a smaller share of government positions given to Mr. Rahmonov’s former foes.
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