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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, leads to the formation of the unofficial poliitcal groups and a renewed interest in Tajik culture
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Tajik Supereme Soviet declares Tajik to be official state Language. Also, Rastokhez People's Front was established
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State of emergency declared and some 5,000 Soviet troops sent to the capital, Dushanbe, to suppress pro-democracy protests, which are also fuelled by rumors that Armenian refugees are to be settled in Dushanbe; Supreme Soveit declares state sovereignty.
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Tajik communist leader Qahhor Makhkamov forced to resign after supporting the faled anit-Gorbachev coup in moscow.
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Supreme Soviet declares Tajikistan independent from the Soviet Union; Rahmon Nabiyev Communist leader durring 1982-5 , wins Tajikistan's first derect presidential election with 57% of the vote.
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Tajikistan joined with ten other former Soviet republics in the commonwealth of Independant states.
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Anti-government demonstrations in Dushanbe escalate into civil war between pro-government forces and Islamist and pro-democracy groups which eventually would claim 20,000 lives, displaced 600,000 and devastated the economy.
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A parliamentary republic was proclaimed and presedential rule abolished.
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Government takes control again and suppresses political opposition and imposes strict media controls; Supreme Court bans all opposistion parties, leaving the Communist Party of Tajikistan as the only legal party; CIS peacekeeping force deployed on Tajik-Afghan border to prevent Islamist Guerrilla groups infiltrating from bases in Afghanistan.
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Ceasefire between government and rebels agreed; Rahmonov announces willingness to negotiate with opposistion; referendum approves draft constituion reinstituting presidential system; Rahmonove elected president in ballot deemed by international observers as neither free nor fair.
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Government and rebel United Tajik Opposistion(UTO) sign peace accord; National reconcilliation Commission, comprising government and opposistion memevers, created to supervise implementation of accord.
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The Somoni introduced as the new currency. Visas also introduced for travel between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
