tajik

Could it be that the sign is in Tajik and not Russian?

Persians are extremely proud of being NOT tribal, unlike their Azeri, Afghani, Turkmeni or Tajik neighbours.

That book dates back to 2003, only a few years after the Tajik civil war ended.

As for Tajik music, it generally falls into two categories: commercial (popular music) and traditional.

I recommend listening to Daler Nazarov, Muboraksho, and the group Shams — this is non-commercial but truly authentic Tajik music.

Bukhara is ethnic Tajik but in Uzbekistan because Stalin.

The actual attackers were rather simple-minded Tajik people.

Source: I am Tajik and was born around the Soviet Union collapsed.

Islam is extremely important to Tajik identity.

That'd still be better than 2'000'000 for the Soviet-Afghan war and another 200'000 for the US-Afghan war?) 2.5% of the Tajik population died during the civil war, and it absolutely would have spread to Afghanistan, as 20% of Afghans are Tajik.

The recent theater shooting & fire in Moscow has inflamed tensions, as many people blame Tajiks for the violence, and take it out on any random Tajik in the city.

Some retarded western propaganda tried to tie this to a few billions of Tajik debt to PRC when the dispute settlement was made 10+ years before BRI was a thing.

A "prominent" Muscovite Jew (but otherwise a lousy student) would have been treated better than the most talented Uzbek/Kazakh/Tajik.

There is no "Afghan" people - there are Pashtun and Tajik and Uzbek[2].

In 2021 a Tajik woman represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest, and many Russians were angry about this "not a real Russian" representing them.

"Tajik" is not defined in terms of "Tajikistan", rather the reverse is true).

The Kalash language is a mix of the languages found in the region- Tajik, uzbek, tartar, persian, etc.

There’s also a Latvian band called Baraka that has performed songs in Tajik.

Cyrillic was not a bad choice for Tajik.