Will Tajikistan Successfully Construct Rogun?
Erica Marat In his official address to Tajik citizens, President Emomali Rakhmon announced that 2010 will be the year “when great resources will be mobilized” to construct the 3,600 mw Rogun dam. “The construction of this site, important for our country, has turned into the arena of labor, bravery and generosity, trials of heroism, and, more so, our national idea,” said Rakhmon (www.khovar.tj, January 5). Yet, at this point it remains unclear whether Rakhmon’s plan to build Rogun will be fulfilled. Problems associated with the Rogun project highlights the Tajik government’s ineffective and corrupt management, as well as Central Asian leaders’ failure to cooperate on mutually beneficial projects. Uzbekistan, in particular, has been seeking to block the construction of Rogun. Recently, Tashkent quit the Central Asia power system, interrupting electricity transmission in Tajikistan (EDM, December 3, 2009). Construction of the Rogun dam was first proposed in 1959, with a technical scheme d
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