Asia-Plus
Asia-Plus is Tajikistan's best-known independent media group, founded in Dushanbe in 1995 and publishing news in Tajik, Russian and English. Repeatedly blocked inside Tajikistan since 2018 over reporting that touched the presidential family, it continues to operate through mirror domains such as asiaplus.news and remains the country's most widely read independent news source.
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Is Asia-Plus left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Asia-Plus is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style.
Read Asia-Plus beside another title from Tajikistan and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so Asia-Plus is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in Tajikistan headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because Asia-Plus is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Tajikistan either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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