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Zarif Sharifzoda
Major General Zarif Sharifzoda ( Russian and Tajik: Зариф Шарифзода) was a Tajik general who was the former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan. Biography He was born Zarif Tairovich Bobokalonov on November 3, 1970, in Soviet Tajikistan. His military career first took off in the early 2000s, when he was appointed as Deputy Chief of the General Staff. On top of that, in 2010, Sharifzoda was made the Head of the Operational Directorate of the General Staff of Tajikistan, a position he would serve in for 2 years before leaving the country in 2012 to go and study at Russia's general staff academy in Moscow. On January 18, 2014, President Emomali Rahmon appointed him as his Chief of the General Staff, overseeing all four military branches of the armed forces. That same year, he changed his name from his family name, Bobokalonov, to Sharifzoda, which was a result of Rahmons's efforts to de-Russification the country's culture. ...
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Chief Of The General Staff (Tajikistan)
The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan (russian: Начальник Генерального штаба; tg, Сардори Ситоди генералии Қувваҳои Мусаллаҳ) is the highest-ranking military officer of in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan, who is responsible for maintaining the operational command of the military and its three major branches. Functions The chief maintains the following functions in his/her position: * To maintain the combat readiness of the armed forces * To carry out military decisions made by the President and Prime Minister * To identify threats to the country * To develop the strength and capability of the military * To engage in military cooperation List of Chiefs See also * Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan * Ministry of Defence (Tajikistan) * National Guard (Tajikistan) References {{Chief of military by country Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg ...
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Tajik Language
Tajik (Tajik: , , ), also called Tajiki Persian (Tajik: , , ) or Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of the Persian language. Several scholars consider Tajik as a dialectal variety of Persian rather than a language on its own. The popularity of this conception of Tajik as a variety of Persian was such that, during the period in which Tajik intellectuals were trying to establish Tajik as a language separate from Persian, prominent intellectual Sadriddin Ayni counterargued that Tajik was not a "bastardised dialect" of Persian.Shinji ldoTajik Published by UN COM GmbH 2005 (LINCOM EUROPA) The issue of whether Tajik and Persian are to be considered two dialects of a single language or two discrete languages has political sides to it. By way of Early New Persian, Tajik, like Iranian Persian and Dari Persian, is a continuation of Midd ...
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2017 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ...
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1970 Births
Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured. * January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. * January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon. February * February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 236. * February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists. * February 11 – '' Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. * February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. March * March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic. * March 4 — All 57 m ...
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Ministry Of Defence (Tajikistan)
The Ministry of Defence of Tajikistan (russian: Министерство обороны Таджикистан ; tg, Вазорати мудофиаи Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, translit=Vazorati mudofiai Çumhurii Toçikiston) is the defence ministry, defence ministry (government department), ministry of Tajikistan, overseeing the Tajik Ground Forces, Tajik Air Force, Air Force, Tajik Mobile Forces, Mobile Forces. It also oversees purchases of equipment for the Military of Tajikistan, Tajik military. The other branches of the military, such as the Tajik Border Troops, Border and Tajik Internal Troops, Internal Troops, are overseen by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Tajikistan), Interior Ministry of Tajikistan. The Defence Ministry was founded in 1993 with Russian assistance. History Origins The ministry succeeded the Defense Committee of the Republic of Tajikistan, led by former military commissar of the Tajik SSR General Muminzhan Mamadjanov. It was founded j ...
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Russification
Russification (russian: русификация, rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian culture and the Russian language. In a historical sense, the term refers to both official and unofficial policies of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union with respect to their national constituents and to national minorities in Russia, aimed at Russian domination and hegemony. The major areas of Russification are politics and culture. In politics, an element of Russification is assigning Russian nationals to leading administrative positions in national institutions. In culture, Russification primarily amounts to the domination of the Russian language in official business and the strong influence of the Russian language on national idioms. The shifts in demographics in favour of the ethnic Russian population are sometimes considered as a form ...
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Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million residents within the city limits, over 17 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in the metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's largest cities; being the most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest urban and metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow grew to become a prosperous and powerful city that served as the capital of the Grand Duchy that bears its name. When the Grand Duchy of Moscow evolved into the Tsardom of Russia, Moscow remained the political and economic center for most of the Tsardom's history. When th ...
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Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ...
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Soviet Tajikistan
The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic,, ''Çumhuriji Şūraviji Sotsialistiji Toçikiston''; russian: Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika'' also commonly known as Soviet Tajikistan and Tajik SSR, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1929 to 1991 located in Central Asia. The Tajik Republic was created on 5 December 1929 as a national entity for the Tajik people within the Soviet Union. It succeeded the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik SSR), which had been created on 14 October 1924 as a part of the predominantly Turkic peoples, Turkic Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, Uzbek SSR in the process of National delimitation in the Soviet Union, national delimitation in Soviet Central Asia. On 24 August 1990, the Tajik SSR declared sovereignty in its borders. The republic was renamed the Rep ...
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Armed Forces Of The Republic Of Tajikistan
tg, Қувваҳои Мусаллаҳи Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, italics=off , image=File:Tajik Armed Forces Shoulder Patch.jpg , image_size= , image2 = , alt2 = Roundel , caption=The shoulder patch of the armed forces , founded= , current_form= , branches= Ground Forces Air Force Mobile ForcesSecurity Forces ∟ National Guard ∟ Internal Troops  ∟ Border Troops , headquarters=Dushanbe , commander-in-chief= Emomali Rahmon , commander-in-chief_title= Supreme Commander-in-Chief , minister= Colonel-General Sherali Mirzo , minister_title= Minister of Defense , commander= Lieutenant-General Emomali Sobirzoda , commander_title= Chief of the General Staff , age= , conscription=18 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation – 2 years , manpower_data=2005 est. , manpower_age= , available=1,556,415 , available_f=1,568,780 , fit=1,244,941 , fit_f=1,297,891 , reaching=87,846 , reaching_f=85 ...
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Russian Language
Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of four living East Slavic languages, and is also a part of the larger Balto-Slavic languages. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states. It was the De facto#National languages, ''de facto'' language of the former Soviet Union,1977 Soviet Constitution, Constitution and Fundamental Law of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1977: Section II, Chapter 6, Article 36 and continues to be used in public life with varying proficiency in all of the post-Soviet states. Russian has over 258 million total speakers worldwide. ...
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Ramil Nadyrov
Lieutenant General Ramil Khalilovich Nadyrov () is a Tajik military leader who was the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan from 2002 to 2014. He was also the first Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) from April 2003 to June 2004. Biography He was born on July 24, 1967 in the city of Kurgan-Tube (now called Bokhtar), in what was then the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1974, he enrolled in the Kolkhozabad Secondary School and graduated from it with gold medal. In 1988, he graduated from the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation Pilot School after four years, and served in Ukraine in a fighter regiment of the Soviet Air Forces. On 11 May 1992, he was appointed as Senior-Assistant to the Head of Duty Shift of 806th Air Traffic Control. After the collapse of the USSR, he served in the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan in the positions of senior officer of the Tajik Air Force, chief of operations, and ...
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