Construction Project in Dushanbe

There are lots of new buildings going up in Dushanbe. There are several on Rudaki Avenue and more on Somoni. The National Library will be built behind the Somoni statue, and there is new construction on either side of the presidential palace. Out near the Peacock Circle someone is building a giant mosque. Or is it a water park? The cement skeleton is thrown up quite quickly. After that, unless it is being built by the government, it just sits there, waiting.

• Wall There's a stadium behind the supermarket Poitaht. Everything in Dushanbe is named Poitaht, lest you forget that you're in the capital (poitaht means capital in Tajik). But when you're here, you can't forget that this is the seat of power - the BMW signals at you, reminds us that the......
• The Swimming Pool I'm back in Dushanbe, even though my mind is in the Pamirs. When in the Pamirs, I thought I was going back in time. But now, here in Dushanbe, I see that this city is stuck in 1991, entrenched by nightmares of the civil war of 1995, trapped by ancient......

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