After three decades of post-Soviet agrarian change, farming structures in Tajikistan remain dynamic. Despite a centralised reform agenda pushed forward by international donors, the local implementation reforms has resulted striking differences across country. This paper investigates Tajikistan’s geography and political economy. We show that unevenness Tajik state’s power autonomy vis-à-vis soci...

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The current deployments of the German Federal Armed Forces cause the necessity to analyze large quantities of intelligence reports and other documents written in different languages. To efficiently handle these tasks natural language processing techniques (NLP) can be applied. The ZENON project makes use of an information extraction approach for the (partial) content analysis of English HUMINT ...

SpiderLing—a web spider for linguistics—is new software for creating text corpora from the web, which we present in this article. Many documents on the web only contain material which is not useful for text corpora, such as lists of links, lists of products, and other kind of text not comprised of full sentences. In fact such pages represent the vast majority of the web. Therefore, by doing unr...

Currently, labor migration from Central Asian countries is acquiring new geographical and socio-demographic dimensions, flows are being reoriented to directions regions. The article considers the factors scale of emigration Tajikistan, reasons for reorientation Tajik migrants Russia Persian Gulf countries, as well interstate agreements between Tajikistan in field regulation. author cites econom...

Twenty-five years since the end of Tajikistan’s civil war in 1997, dreams and aspirations international development cross-border mobility country’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province, colloquially called “the Pamirs,” have evaporated. Once mountainous region was envisaged to a prosperous postwar future ahead it, with emerging trade links China Afghanistan, substantial funding from nongovernme...