ABSTRACT
On 25 May 1993, the Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov declared: ‘Were it not for Russia and Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, were it not for Uzbekistan and Islam Abduganievich Karimov, the Tajik people and the Tajik state would no longer exist.’1 The purpose of this article is to show, particularly with the help of the appended chronology, how the situation prevailing during winter 1993 came about.
