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TASHKENT, Oct 5 – Sputnik. Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov was born on October 5, 1952 in the village of Dangara, Kulyab region, Tajik SSR in peasant family.

Education

In 1969, he graduated from vocational technical school No. 40 in the city of Kalininabad as a master electrician. After graduating from college, he worked at a butter factory in the city of Kurgan-Tube.

For three years, from 1971 to 1974, Emomali Rahmon served in the Pacific Fleet. After demobilization, he went to work at the Lenin state farm in the Dangara region, writes Sputnik Tajikistan.

In 1982 he graduated from the correspondence department of the Faculty of Economics of the Tajik national university. From 1987 to 1992, the future president worked as director of the Lenin state farm in the Dangara region.

Political career

In 1990, the political career of Emomali Rahmon began; that year he was elected people's deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tajikistan of the 12th convocation.

In 1992, he was elected chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the Kulyab Region, and then chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Tajikistan.

On November 6, 1994, during a popular vote, Emomali Rahmon was elected President of Tajikistan. In the elections, his candidacy received 59% of the votes.

10 days later, Rahmon was sworn in. Since then, he has been re-elected to this position three times (in 1999, 2006, 2013), always gaining a majority of votes.

Towards the end of the civil war, on April 30, 1997, the first assassination attempt was made on the president. During the solemn ceremony celebrating the 65th anniversary of the local university in Khujand, a fragmentation grenade was exploded, as a result of which Rakhmon was wounded, fortunately not fatally.

2 months later, on June 27, 1997, the president signed an agreement with the United Tajik Opposition to end the civil war and brought peace to the country. In 1998, Rahmon headed the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan.

In November 2001, a second attempt was made on Rakhmon. Near the podium where the president was speaking, a suicide bomber detonated a homemade device, but no one was injured.

In June 2003, a referendum was held in Tajikistan to amend the Constitution of the country; as a result of the voting, Emomali Rahmon received the opportunity to participate in the vote twice more. presidential elections. The provision limiting the age of a presidential candidate was also removed.

In June 2016, a national referendum amended the Constitution of Tajikistan to allow current President Emomali Rahmon to be re-elected without restrictions.

Family

Emomali Rahmon is married and has seven daughters and two sons. This is the father with many children among the leaders of the former USSR.

In 2007, the president changed his surname Rakhmonov to Rakhmon.

In 2015, Rahmon received the title “Founder of Peace and National Unity - Leader of the Nation.”

The President of Tajikistan has a black belt in taekwondo.

Honorary awards

During his political career, Emomali Rahmon was awarded 12 orders, 10 medals, and 7 honorary titles.

Thus, the president is the Hero of Tajikistan (since 1999). IN different years he was also awarded the Diamond Order "Patron's Star" - the highest award of the international charitable foundation "Patrons of the Century" (Russia), the Order of Alexander Nevsky (Russia), the Ruby Star "Peacemaker", the Golden Jubilee Medal named after Avicenna, the order "National Hero of Afghanistan - Ahmad Shah Masoud", the Order of the Crescent and Star of the International Committee for the Fight against Terrorism, Drugs and Environmental Crimes INTERSAFETY, the gold medal of the International Federation of Peace and Harmony "In honor of strengthening peace and harmony between peoples" and others.

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Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmon (real name Rakhmonov) is a Tajik politician, since 1994 he has been the permanent president of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Childhood and family of Emomali Rahmon

The future leader of the nation was born on October 5, 1952 in a large peasant family from the village of Dangara, Kulyab region of the TSSR. In terms of seniority, he was the third son. Mother - Mayram Sharipova, father - Shari Rakhmonov, participant in the Great Patriotic War.

After graduating from secondary school in 1969, he worked as an electrician at an oil mill in the town of Kurgan-Tube. In the early seventies (1971 - 1974), Emomali Rakhmonov served in the USSR army, being a sailor in the Pacific Fleet.

After demobilization, the young man returned to work at the factory, then got a job as a salesman. At the same time, he studied by correspondence at the Faculty of Economics of the Tajik state university, who graduated in 1982 with a diploma in economics. From that moment his political career began.

The beginning of the career of Emomali Rahmon

Since 1976, Emomali Rakhmonov confidently built his career at the Lenin state farm in his small homeland. By 1982, he held the position of secretary of the board, then rose to become chairman of the state farm trade union committee.

Over the next six years (1982 - 1988), the young man was engaged in party work at the state farm: he was the secretary of the state farm party committee, and an instructor for the district committee. In 1988, he received the position of director of the state farm, which he held until 1992.

In 1992, Emomali Rakhmonov’s career took off: he was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the 12th convocation of the TSSR. This happened against the backdrop of the spring opposition rallies that shook the capital of the state, Dushanbe, that year. The rally of his supporters was dubbed communist for the abundance of red symbols and old slogans.

Due to the threat of open armed confrontation, his camp returned to Kulyab for some time, where in the fall of the same year Emomali replaced Dzhiyonkhon Rizoev as chairman of the Kulyab regional executive committee, who was soon killed, presumably for disagreeing with the expansion of the Kulyab party nomenklatura.

At the same time, the first paramilitary detachments of the so-called Popular Front were formed, the direct organizers of which were Emomali Rakhmonov and Sangak Safarov. It is the latter who is credited with eliminating the competitor of his comrade, the former chairman of the executive committee, Dzhiyonkhon Rizoev. In the city of Termez, the possibility of an armed seizure of the capital with the help of these detachments was then seriously considered.

In early December, at the 16th session of the Supreme Council of the TSSR in the town of Arbob, bypassing the constitution, Emomali Rakhmnov was appointed chairman of the Supreme Council instead of the resigned Rakhmon Nabiev. At the same time, a “legitimate” coalition government was created with compromise candidates from the opposition.

The Council building at that moment was surrounded by armored personnel carriers and several cordons of machine gunners, so the resignation of the Council of Ministers, as well as the chairman himself, was inevitable. Their democratically and Islamist-minded supporters were driven away by armed detachments from Dushanbe, to the east of the state. Most of the ministerial portfolios and positions predictably went to people from Kulyab.

Regarding relations with Russian Federation At this time, Russian diplomats began to write notes of protest when the Russians, leaving their belongings and apartments, began to flee from Tajikistan. And this despite Emomali Rakhmonov’s assurances in early 1993 to consider the possibility of granting official status to the Russian language and approving the law on dual citizenship.

President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon

On November 6, 1994, that is, two years after the revolutionary events, presidential elections were held in Tajikistan, in which Emomali Rakhmonov convincingly won. Despite the officially declared high voter turnout, opposition forces ignored the elections and, led by Abdulladzhanov, charged Emomali Rakhmonov with falsification.

When parliamentary elections were held in the country in early 1995, most Predictably, people from the Popular Front and the city of Kulob received parliamentary mandates.

At the beginning of 1996, Emomali Rakhmonov showed political foresight when he did not use force against the rioting rebels who threatened to march on Dushanbe with weapons, but decided to give them several ministerial portfolios in exchange for the delivery of military equipment to army barracks. Thus, by 1997, the Islamists partially regained their positions in the country’s power structures, and the balance necessary for a truce was restored.

On September 26, 1999, amendments were made to the country's Constitution, which increased the presidential term to seven years, compared to the previously mentioned four. At the same time, Emomali Rakhmonov was elected as the representative of Tajikistan in the UN General Assembly.

In November of the same year, Emomali Rakhmonov won the presidential elections with an absolute majority.

Subsequently, in 2003, further amendments were made to the country's Constitution, allowing the president to serve two consecutive seven-year terms instead of one. In this case, the previous period was not taken into account.

In 2006, Emomali Rakhmonov won a landslide victory in the presidential elections. At this time, the country was undergoing a “Tajikization” of names - “Russian” endings of names and surnames were banned. Rakhmonov changed his last name to “Rakhmon” and got rid of his middle name. This marked an era of rollback to Tajik folk traditions and the old way of life throughout the country. For example, even the Islamic Koran was translated into Tajik.

From 2009 to 2010, a number of resolutions were adopted establishing Tajik as the only language possible for business use. Thus, the Russian language was “out of favor”, and the long-standing promise of the newly elected President Rakhmonov was forgotten.

In 2011, thanks to some successful political maneuvers, in particular, the resolution of a territorial dispute with the PRC, the European Council awarded Emomali Rahmon the honorary title of “Leader of the 21st Century”.

On November 6, 2013, in the presidential elections, Rahmon was re-elected head of state for the fourth time in a row by a majority vote.

In 2015, Emomali personally ratified the law granting himself the official title of “Leader of the Nation,” which allowed him to hold the presidential position for life.

Personal life of Emomali Rahmon

The President of Tajikistan is married. The couple raised 9 children: two sons and seven daughters. Almost all of them were subsequently connected by dynastic marriages with representatives of the power structures of Tajikistan and appointed to key government posts.

Emomali Rahmon and his family

Among Emomali Rahmon's hobbies and interests one can note collecting antiques, a love of hunting and reading fiction.

Emomali Rahmon now

Emomali Rahmon looks to the near future with optimism. So, he sees his son Rustam as a successor in the presidential chair. The young man has long been entering the offices of power and this moment holds the position of head of the state financial agency. And, according to political scientists, if he is elected president in 2020, Emomali himself will be able to remain a regent.

Emomali Rahmon has been the permanent president of Tajikistan since 1994. After the constitutional referendum in May 2016, an amendment was made to the country's basic law, removing the limit on the number of re-elections to the post of head of state.

Since the year of his election to the highest position in the country, the President of the Republic has the title “Peshvoi Millat”. The full name of the title is “Founder of Peace and National Unity - Leader of the Nation.”

Childhood and youth

Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov appeared in a large family in the village of Dangara, Kulyab region of the TSSR. Emomali is the third son in the Rakhmonov family. The father of the future president, Sharif Rakhmonov, is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and was awarded the Order of Glory in two degrees. Mom Mayram Sharifova is a housewife, raised children and led household.

The future leader of the nation, having graduated secondary school in 1969, he got a job as an electrician at an oil mill in Kurgan-Tube. In the early 1970s, Emomali Rakhmon served in the Pacific Fleet, and after demobilization he returned to the plant, later working as a salesman.

In the late 70s, Rakhmonov entered the university in absentia, choosing the Faculty of Economics. Received his diploma in 1982.

Policy

Since 1976, Emomali Rakhmon has been the secretary of the collective farm board in the Dangara district of the Kulyab region. In six years, the young man grew from secretary of the state farm party committee to instructor of the district committee.

In the summer of 1988, Rakhmonov took the chair of the director of the state farm and worked in this position until 1992, when he became a deputy of the Supreme Council of Tajikistan.

Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the TSSR were held amid the roar of opposition rallies. Due to the abundance of red symbols, the rallies were called communist. The Popular Front of Emomali Rahmon opposed the “red camp”. In December 1992, the “front-line soldiers” occupied the capital, and Emomali headed the government.

In November 1994, the country held a constitutional referendum and presidential elections. Emomali Rahmon won with 58.7% of the vote. 95.7% of voters in Tajikistan voted for the updated Constitution.

The united opposition and its supporters did not come to the elections and referendum, having previously declared the elections rigged.

The president

To reduce the degree of confrontation, in June 1997, Emomali Rahmon and his government concluded a truce with the opposition, giving it a dozen seats in the government. Islamists joined government structures, parliament and the army, but the fight against the opposition did not stop. There were two attempts on the leader's life. The first was in April 1997 in Khujand: a grenade was thrown at the presidential motorcade. In November 2001, a terrorist detonated explosives near the podium in Khujand, where the head of state was speaking. Emomali Rakhmon was not injured in either the first or second cases.

In the winter of 1997, Colonel Makhmud Khudoiberdyev, one of the former leaders of the Popular Front, started a rebellion that was supported in Uzbekistan. Emomali Rakhmonov suppressed the rebellion and began to eliminate yesterday's comrades and influential oppositionists.

In 2003, the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, Yakub Salimov, was detained in Moscow and extradited to his homeland, where he was sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security prison.

It is noteworthy that Yakub Salimov saved President Rakhmon during the first assassination attempt. Salimov pushed the president away and protected him from shrapnel with his body. Emomali Rahmon thanked and stated in a televised address that he and his children will forever remember Yakub Salimov. But 6 years after the assassination attempt, Salimov, appointed Ambassador of Tajikistan to Turkey, was accused of abuse of office, arms trafficking and attempting to organize a coup. The ambassador was arrested in Moscow, where he fled.

And in December 2004, the second opponent of Emomali Rahmon, the head of the Tajik Democratic Party Mahmadruzi Iskandarov, was arrested in Moscow. After four months in pre-trial detention, he was released, but in the spring of the following year Iskandarov received 23 years in prison.

A “misfire” happened only with the former Minister of Trade Khabibullo Nasrulloev. At the request of the Tajik prosecutor's office, he was detained in Moscow, but Supreme Court The Russian Federation refused to extradite Iskandarov to the authorities of the republic. At home, he was accused of involvement in illegal armed groups that threatened to overthrow state power in Tajikistan. Previously, Nasrulloev was a supporter of the Popular Front and an ally of Rakhmonov, but in the presidential elections he supported his rival Abdumalik Abdulodjonov.

After eliminating the most ardent oppositionists, Emomali Rahmon set about consolidating power. In 2003, he held a referendum that resulted in changes to the constitution. The leader of the nation received the right to run for president in 2006 and hold the presidency for two more 7-year terms.

In 2006, Emomali Rahmon won the next presidential election. In line with the “Tajikization” taking place in the republic, Russian endings of surnames were banned. So Rakhmonov became Rakhmon and “cut off” his middle name. The period of returning to folk traditions and the old way of life. The Islamic Quran was translated into Tajik, and in 2009 a resolution was adopted stating that Tajik is the only language possible for business use. The Russian language, despite the promises of Emomali Rahmon, turned out to be “out of favor.”

In December 2009 in Russian media information appeared that President Emomali Rahmon hit the President of Uzbekistan. The Tajik leader admitted to a difficult relationship with the head of a neighboring power in Dushanbe, at a meeting with Tajik journalists, where the construction of the Rogun hydroelectric power station was discussed.

Journalists claim that Emomali Rahmon spoke about disputes with and even that he had two fights with the president of Uzbekistan. Russian publications wrote that Rakhmonov was frank “off the record,” but there were fifty journalists in the hall who did not miss the opportunity to seize on the sensation.

On the second day after the publication of Rakhmon’s interview, there were no comments from the press services of the presidents of the two republics, so there was room for speculation.

In 2011, the English-language weekly The Economist ranked Tajikistan at 151 as a state with an authoritarian regime in its World Democracy Index. The economy of the poorest republic of the USSR, undermined by a war that claimed up to 120 thousand lives and 18 annual budgets, gradually recovered. In 1999, according to the World Bank, 83% of people fell below the poverty line. But in 2011 the figure dropped to 45%.

The country's economy is dependent on the income earned by migrant workers. According to the World Bank, in 2011, 47% of Tajikistan’s GDP came from migrant remittances.

Emomali Rahmon managed to resolve a territorial dispute with China that lasted 130 years. The PRC demanded the return of 28.5 thousand km². During a visit to Beijing, the President of Tajikistan ceded 1.1 thousand km² to China in the Eastern Pamirs. The political maneuver that resolved the territorial dispute was appreciated by the European Council, awarding the head of state the title “Leader of the 21st Century.”

In November 2013, in the presidential elections, Emomali Rahmon took the presidency for the 4th time. And in 2015, he ratified a law that allowed him to hold the position of head of state for life.

Personal life

Emomali Rakhmon is married to compatriot Azizmo Asadullayeva. The couple had 9 children: two sons and seven daughters. All occupy key positions in the country and are connected by dynastic marriages with representatives of the republic’s authorities. The eldest daughter Firuza is married to the head of the Tajik railway. Son Rustam, born in 1987, headed the anti-smuggling department and is today the mayor of the capital.

Ozod's daughter received a diploma from the University of Maryland. At the beginning of 2016, Emomali Rahmon appointed Ozoda Rahmon as head of the presidential administration. Married to the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic.

Parveen's daughter is married to the son of the Minister of Energy and Industry. Zarrin's sixth daughter is an announcer on a state television channel. In 2013, she married the son of the head of the Communications Service.

IN free time The head of state enjoys hunting and reading books. He collects antiques. Ill-wishers and the opposition attribute discreditable connections to Rakhmon and accuse him of having a “harem.” Singer Gulra Tabarova, national television announcer Munira Rakhimova and the daughter of the Minister of Defense of the Republic Diana Khairulloeva are called the mistresses of Emomali Rakhmonov. Of course, the information has not been officially confirmed and there is no evidence.

Emomali Rahmon now

In February 2017, the President of Tajikistan told reporters why he appointed his eldest son as mayor of Dushanbe. According to him, Rakhmon Rustam Emomali - experienced manager, who “cannot be negatively influenced from the outside.” Rumor has it that Emomali Rahmon sees his son as a successor to the presidential chair, which he will occupy in 2020.

At the end of February 2017, I arrived in Dushanbe. The Russian leader’s visit coincided with the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the countries. At a meeting in the Palace of the Nation (according to the English site “Theestle.Net”, second only to White House) the presidents discussed trade and economic cooperation and signed a package of joint documents.

State

A telegram from the American Embassy in Tajikistan dated February 16, 2010 states that the president’s relatives manage large businesses in the republic and own a bank. The state's exports are limited to aluminum and hydroelectric power, and two-thirds of the profits of the Tajik aluminum smelter in Tursunzade end up in the offshore of the presidential company. From these proceeds, Rakhmon allegedly “amassed” a billion-dollar fortune.

There is no official confirmation of the information or a completed investigation to confirm the rumors.

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Biography

early years

Emomali Rakhmonov was born on October 5 1952 in the village of Dangara Kulyab region Tajik SSR. After graduating high school, he began working as an electrician for a creamery in Kurgan-Tyube, then from to 1974 he served as a sailor on Pacific Fleet, and after finishing his service he returned to the plant. IN 1982 Rakhmonov graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Tajik State University. From 1976 to 1988 worked as secretary of the board of the collective farm of the Dangara district of the Kulyab region, chairman of the trade union committee of this farm, and also held positions in party bodies. In June 1988, Rakhmonov became director of the state farm named after. Lenin, Dangara district, holding this position until November 1992.

Civil War

At the beginning of November 1992, Emomali Rakhmonov became chairman of the Kulyab Regional Executive Committee, replacing in this post the former staff member of the Department of Internal Affairs for the fight against terrorism and banditry, Dzhienkhon Rizoev, who was killed, presumably, for his call to withdraw the Kulyab formations from Kurgan-Tube and lay down their arms. WITH November 16 By December 2nd V Khujand The 16th “conciliatory” session of the Supreme Council of Tajikistan was held, which accepted the resignation of Rakhmon Nabiyev and elected “Kulyab resident” Emomali Rakhmonov as chairman of the Supreme Council. Two days later, representatives of the People's Democratic Army of Tajikistan, which controls the capital, announced on republican radio that they consider the new leadership of the country led by Rakhmonov "treacherous and communist odious" and that they will not allow the new government based in Khujand into the capital. November 26 field commander and founder of the Popular Front, ex-chairman of the Supreme Council Safarali Kenzhaev and the Gissar group launched an attack on the capital. On December 10, he entered Dushanbe with fighting special battalion field commander Popular Front, Minister of Internal Affairs Yakub Salimov (English) Russian . Emomali Rakhmonov and members of the government arrived in the city with him. Detachments of Islamists and democrats were driven out to the east of the country; some of them retreated to Afghanistan. The main fighting has now moved to Karategin(Garm, Romit) and Darvaz (Tavildara). The dominant political force in the country has become the “Kulyab people,” which includes Emomali Rakhmonov. One political analyst assesses that “Kulyab won the war and became the master of the republic,” but at the same time believes that as a region, Kulyab gained nothing from Rakhmonov’s rule.

On August 10, government troops cleared Dushanbe of Salimov’s formations, the next day they dispersed the “self-defense units” and took control Gissarsky And Shakhrinav districts and captured the city of Tursunzade, and then moved to Khudoiberdyev’s stronghold - Kurgan-Tyube. On the night of August 12-13, Emomali Rakhmonov twice had a telephone conversation with Makhmud Khudoiberdyev, as a result of which Khudoiberdyev agreed to return his units to the barracks and leave the post of brigade commander in exchange for personal immunity, with the condition that Rakhmonov would issue a decree releasing the colonel from his post “due to transfer to another job.” However, on August 18, hostilities resumed, which soon ended with the defeat of the detachments of Makhmud Khudoiberdyev.

Domestic policy: stabilization of power

Over the subsequent years since the end of the Civil War, Emomali Rakhmonov managed to strengthen his own positions and eliminate his competitors from the political arena. On April 30, 1997, the first attempt was made on his life when, during a solemn ceremony celebrating the 65th anniversary of the local university in Khojent, a fragmentation grenade was detonated, as a result of which he was wounded. The president was then saved by Yakub Salimov, who pushed the head of state away in time and covered him with his body. Speaking on Tajik television, Rakhmonov even said: “Tajiks, you must remember who saved your president, my children and my children’s children will always remember this!”. However, very soon Salimov, who was in Turkey in the position of Tajik ambassador, he was accused in absentia of abuse of official powers, arms trafficking, creating criminal groups and attempting to organize a coup. Salimov moved to Russia, where in June 2003 he was arrested at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Tajikistan and extradited to his homeland in February 2004. A Tajik court sentenced him to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of treason by conspiring to seize power, banditry, etc. . Besides him, in Moscow in December 2004 at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office of Tajikistan, the head of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan was also arrested (English) Russian (English) Mahmadruzi Iskandarov

Russian , but the Russian side found no grounds for extraditing him to the Tajik authorities and he was released. However, in April 2005, he unexpectedly disappeared and soon found himself in a pre-trial detention center of the Ministry of State Security of Tajikistan. In addition to them, such influential politicians as the ex-chief of the presidential guard Gaffor Mirzoev, former leaders of the United Tajik Opposition (UTO) and the ex-head of the customs committee Mirzokhodzhi Nizomov were behind bars.

On November 8, 2001, there was a second attempt on Rakhmonov’s life. Near the podium from which he was speaking, a suicide bomber detonated a homemade device, but no one was injured. In August 2003, in Moscow, at the request of the Tajik Prosecutor General's Office, he was detained former minister Abdumalika Abdullajonova.

In the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2011 World Democracy Index, Tajikistan was ranked 151st as an authoritarian country.

Socio-economic situation

Even before the collapse of the USSR, the Tajik SSR was one of the poorest Soviet republics. Civil War in Tajikistan claimed from 60 to 150 thousand human lives, the damage amounted to 7 billion dollars, which amounted to 18 annual budgets of the country. The most pressing problem in Tajikistan has become poverty. According to World Bank data based on a 1999 poverty survey, up to 83% of the country's population was below the poverty line. In order to overcome it, in 2002, the Majlis Namoyandogon Majlisi Oli approved the Poverty Reduction Strategy Document developed by the government. According to the household basic needs assessment method, the poverty rate in Tajikistan fell from 72.4% in 2003 to 53.5% in 2007, and officially stood at 45% in 2011.

The economy of Tajikistan has become extremely dependent on the funds earned by labor emigrants. At the end of 2011, according to the World Bank, as a percentage of the country’s GDP, Tajikistan became the leader in receipts of remittances from migrants, amounting to 47% of the republic’s GDP.

Foreign policy

In foreign policy uneasy relations between Rahmon and the Uzbek president Islam Karimov. At a meeting with journalists on December 8, 2009, Rakhmon said that he had fought with Uzbek President Karimov: “I argued with him many times, I even got into a fight twice, once Nazarbayev separated us, the second time Kuchma. And I told him: “ Samarkand And Bukhara We’ll take it anyway!” .

During his presidency, Rakhmonov managed to resolve the 130-year-old territorial dispute with China. During his visit to Beijing in May 2003, he agreed to cede 1.1 thousand km² to the PRC in the Eastern Pamir, although initially China laid claim to 28.5 thousand km² (almost 20% of the territory of Tajikistan). On January 12, 2011, the Parliament of Tajikistan ratified the demarcation protocol of the Chinese-Tajik border, according to which 1.1 thousand km² of disputed territories (0.77% of the territory of Tajikistan) were transferred to China.

Transformations in the way of life of society

In 2006, while visiting a rural educational institution, the president noticed the school teacher had false gold teeth. Seeing this, he said: "How can we convince international organizations the fact is that we are poor if our rural teachers walk around with gold teeth!” After this, all citizens of Tajikistan were ordered to remove their gold dentures. Under the editorship of Talbak Nazarov, seven books were published in Tajikistan: “Emomali Rakhmonov - the savior of the nation” (covers the period from 1992 to 1995), “Emomali Rakhmonov - the founder of peace and national unity” (1996-1999), “Emomali Rakhmonov - the beginning stage of creation" (2000-2003), "Emomali Rakhmonov - a year equal to centuries" (2004), "Emomali Rakhmonov: the year of world culture" (2005) and "Emomali Rakhmonov: the year of Aryan civilization" (2006). The publications were timed to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the country’s independence, the 2700th anniversary of the city Kulob and Year Aryan civilization, declared by order of the President in 2006.

In July 2009, the president submitted to parliament a draft of a new language law. In a televised address to mark the 20th anniversary of the first language law, he stated: “The greatness of a nation can be judged primarily by how much its representatives protect and respect their national language.”. The head of state said:

At the beginning of October 2009, the country's parliament adopted and the president signed the law “On the State Language”. This law establishes Tajik the only one for communication with government authorities and management, while Constitution of Tajikistan proclaims Russian language- the language of international communication. Commenting on the discussion around the Language Law, Emomali Rahmon said:

“We do not understand the fuss raised in the media around the new law on the state language. The name itself suggests that this law regulates the scope of application only of the Tajik language. A Russian language in Tajikistan has a constitutional status - a language of interethnic communication. And no one is going to review it."

Personal life

By religion Emomali Rakhmonov - Muslim. In 2007, he ordered the transfer Koran into Tajik language.

Family

Emomali Rahmon's father, Sharif Rakhmonov, participated in Great Patriotic War, was awarded Order of Glory 2nd and 3rd degrees. Brother Fayziddin Rakhmonov died in the late 1950s Lviv region Ukraine "in the line of duty" while serving in the ranks of the Soviet Army.

Rakhmon has nine children: seven daughters (Firuza, Ozoda, Rukhshona, Takhmina, Parvin, Zarrin and Farzon) and two sons (Rustam and Somon). The first daughter, Firuza, married the son of the head of the Tajik railway, Amonullo Khukumov.

The eldest son Rustam played for football club"Istiklol", headed the department for supporting small and medium-sized businesses in the State Committee for Investments, then was appointed head of the department for combating smuggling and later became president of the Football Federation of Tajikistan.

The second daughter, Ozoda, works as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. She married Deputy Minister of Finance of Tajikistan Jamoliddin Nuraliev

The sixth daughter, Zarrina, works as an announcer on the state television channel “Shabakai Avval” (Channel One).

In June 2012, Rakhmonov’s son-in-law (his sister’s husband) Kholmumin Safarov, who was the director of the State Enterprise of Forestry and Hunting of the Committee for Protection, was killed environment under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. ..

Corruption

Awards

Orders

Medals and other awards

Prize and honorary titles

Publications and works

Notes

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