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Tajikistan: The Role of Intellectuals in Running a Country

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Tajikistan, Citizen Media, Governance, Ideas, Politics

Should poets have a bigger say in how the countries they live in are run? Adash Istad writes [1] [tj] that Tajik intellectuals have stayed out of government affairs too long. The blogger argues that it is time for intellectuals to understand that they have a particular ‘mission’ which consists of educating government officials about the virtues they should have.