27th February 2013 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Will Schomburg, a member of DFID’s Graduate Scheme. It takes imagination to picture what ancient Panjakent once looked like. While it might now be little more than a sprawl of ruins in western Tajikistan, the city was once a thriving trading point along the Silk Route. Like famous Samarkand, just […]
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12th February 2013 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a post by Robert Price, a Philosophy and Politics undergraduate at the University of Exeter who has recently completed an internship at the Embassy. Give Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Tajikistan, Robin Ord-Smith, a karaoke machine, and he will show you that he has the voice of an angel. This is just one […]
4th February 2013 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Our Embassy often assists the British Defence School of Languages in arranging in-country Language and Cultural Training for students of Farsi and Pashto. The latest trip of three weeks included five students of Dari and two of Pashto. The following is a guest post by Fiona MacFarlane, one of the language students. We arrived in the […]
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22nd January 2013 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
The following is a blog by Farhod Nabiyulloev, Press and Public Affairs Officer As part of the first week back at work in the New Year, I and some of my colleagues at the Embassy took part in several training sessions, organised by the Foreign Office’s Regional Training Centre in Dubai. We held our sessions […]