Коммерсант: Гражданская война в Таджикистане — хроника

The article, a brief photo-gallery introduction published by Russian newspaper Коммерсантъ (Kommersant) on 27 June 2024, reports on the chronology of the Tajik Civil War of 1992–1997. The article states that on 27 June 1997, in Moscow, the Tajik authorities and the United Tajik Opposition signed a peace agreement ending the civil war. Article reports that the inter-clan conflict lasted from 1992 and that up to 150,000 lives were lost. The piece situates the outbreak of protests in March 1992, after the arrest of the opposition-aligned mayor of Dushanbe Максуд Икромов (Maksud Ikromov); article reports these protests subsequently escalated into civil war. The image caption credits Ратушенко (Ratushenko) / РИА Новости (RIA Novosti) for the opening photograph. The text functions as an introductory frame for a photo gallery hosted on Kommersant’s photo section (kommersant.ru/specials/photo); the remainder of the report consists of photographs rather than narrative text. No individual persons beyond Ikromov are named in the readable text of the article, and no specific dates beyond March 1992 (protests), 1992–1997 (conflict period) and 27 June 1997 (peace agreement signing) are given. The article does not list additional cited sources beyond its own photo archive and the RIA Novosti photograph credit.