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Emomali Rakhmonov

Emomali Rahmon
Эмомалӣ Раҳмон
3rd President of Tajikistan
Assumed office
27 November 1992
Acting: 19 November 1992 – 27 November 1992
Prime Minister Abdumalik Abdullajanov
Abdujalil Samadov
Jamshed Karimov
Yahyo Azimov
Oqil Oqilov
Kokhir Rasulzoda
Preceded by Rahmon Nabiyev
Leader of the People's Democratic Party
Assumed office
10 December 1994
Preceded by Position established
Personal details
Born Emomali Sharipovich Rahmonov
(1952-10-05) 5 October 1952 (age 64)
Kulob, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Political party People's Democratic Party (1994–present)
Spouse(s) Azizmo Asadullayeva
Children 7 daughters
2 sons
Alma mater Tajik State National University
Religion Sunni Islam

Emomali Rahmon (Tajik: Эмомалӣ Раҳмон, Emomalî Rahmon/Emomalī Rahmon; born 5 October 1952) is a Tajikistani politician who has served as President of Tajikistan (or its equivalent post) since 1992.

During the early years of his presidency, Rahmon faced a civil war in which up to 100,000 people died. In 2013, he was elected to a fourth term in office.

Rahmon was born as Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov (Russian: Эмомали́ Шари́пович Рахмо́нов, Emomali Šaripovič Rahmonov) to a peasant family in Danghara,Kulob Oblast (present-day Khatlon province). From 1971 to 1974 he served in the Soviet Union's Pacific Fleet. After completing the military service, Rahmon returned to his native village where he worked for some time as an electrician.

As an apparatchik rising through the nomenklatura, his original power base was as chairman of the collective state farm of his native Danghara. According to his official biography, Rahmon graduated from the Tajik State National University with a specialist's degree in Economics in 1982. After working for several years in the trade union of the Lenin Sovkhoz in Danghara, Rahmon was appointed chairman of the sovkhoz in 1987.

In 1990, Rahmon was elected a people's deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR. President Rahmon Nabiyev was forced to resign in the first months of the Civil War in Tajikistan in August 1992. Akbarsho Iskandarov, Speaker of the Supreme Soviet, became acting president. Iskandarov resigned in November 1992 in an attempt to end the civil unrest. That same month, the Supreme Soviet met in Khujand for its 16th session and declared Tajikistan a parliamentary republic. Rahmon was then elected by the members of the Supreme Soviet as its chairman—a post equivalent to that of president—and the head of government.


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