Works by Tajik photographer included into Reuters photo album

DUSHANBE, October 5, 2015, Asia-Plus — Thomson Reuters has published a new photo album entitled “The 21st Century Photos.” The album contains photos made in the former Soviet Union republics over the past fifteen years. Three works by Tajik known photographer Nozim Qalandarov, namely Zuhro, an employee of Dushanbe Zoo, takes Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, for […]

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DUSHANBE, October 5, 2015, Asia-Plus — Thomson Reuters has published a new photo album entitled “The 21st Century Photos.”

The album contains photos made in the former Soviet Union republics over the past fifteen years.

Three works by Tajik known photographer Nozim Qalandarov, namely

Zuhro, an employee of Dushanbe Zoo, takes Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, for a walk

(January 2011),

Bzukashi (goat grabbing) in Tajikistan

(March 2011), and

Crowds of people near a currency exchange office in Dushanbe

(March 2015) have also been included into the album.

As far as the picture

Zuhro, an employee of Dushanbe Zoo, takes Vadik, an 18-month-old male lion, for a walk

is concerned,

The Telegraph

published it on January 20, 2011in the heading “Pictures of the Day.”  

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