A worker tears down a fountain in central Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He says it will be replaced with a "better one" before Tajikistan's twentieth anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union this September.
David Trilling is EurasiaNet's Central Asia editor.
David Trilling is Eurasianet’s managing editor.
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