Emomalii Rahmon, President of Tadjikistan He was born to a peasant family in Dangara, Kulob province. As an apparatchik rising through the nomenklatura, his original power base was as chairman of the collective state farm of his native Dangara. In 1990 he was elected a people’s deputy to the Supreme Council of the Tajik SSR. President Rahmon Nabiyev, fearing for More →