Tajik President Spurns Talk of Arab-Style Unrest

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon said Wednesday that an Arab-style revolution is “impossible” in his Central Asian nation because the population does not want a return to civil war. Many analysts have drawn parallels between uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East, and the situation in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, where authoritarian leaders have crushed dissent during decades […]