The Economist (US), August 1st, 1992
Tajikistan has come to a near standstill, with skilled labor fleeing the region and the economy nearly destroyed. The coalition government of old school communists and the Islamic Renaissance Party has collapsed.
If the republics of ex-Soviet Central Asia are glass waiting to shatter, the first cracks are appearing in Tajikistan
LAST spring followers of the Islamic Renaissance Party and other anti-communists occupied one of Dushanbe's dusty squares to demand the resignation of President Rakhmon Nabiev, a communist autocrat of the old school. Pro-government forces responded with their own dem...
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