DUSHAN BE,TAJIKIST AN: The hard-line Communist president, Rakhmon Nabiyev, resigned Sept.7, after armed anti-government militants stopped him at the airport and prevented him from leaving the Tajik capital.
Nabiyev was the third president of a former Soviet republic to be toppled in the tumult following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet government. The Georgian and Azerbaijani presidents also were id civil strife.
The resignation came a week after armed opponents seized the presidential palace, forcing Nabiyev into hiding and taking more than 40 hostages, who were later freed, Days later, Nablyev’s Cabinet and leaders of the Legislature approved a vote of no confidence in his government.
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