BBC’s featured story on life in the Central Asia nation of Tajikistan, the poorest of the former Soviet republics, where almost half of the population live below poverty line.
Children selling apples by the side of the road
Two young girls in a traditional mudhouse in a village
Young women picking tomatoes in a field
Nurek power plant, which provides much of Tajikistan’s power
Children loading containers of water onto a donkey
Guljakhon, a teacher, outside of her house
Children chat in Dushanbe, near an apartment building unaffordable to most
A man finishes tiling outside the presidential palace
Photos by Abdujalil Abdurasulov, BBC News (with detailed texts).
