P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Murtazoev Buri

See Murtazoev, Bakhtiyor.

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Iraj Bashiri

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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Musoeva, Rafiqa

Tajik politician Rafiqa Musoeva was born in 1953.

Musoeva received her engineering degree from the Moscow Institute

of Engineers of Civil Aviation in 1979, then became a Lecturer at the

Tajik Politechnical Institute. She was appointed Secretary of the Central

Committee of the Komsomol of Tajikistan in 1980, and First Secretary

of the Central District of the Dushanbe CPT Committee in 1987. She

was elected to the Parliament in 1989 and to the Parliament's successor,

the National Assembly, in 1994. In the same year, she also became the

Chair of the State Building Committee of the Tajik Congress (Majlisi

Oli). Since 1995, Musoeva has been a leading figure in the CPT, as well

as in the Tajik Congress.