Tajikistan : public and bank holidays, closure of banks, stock exchanges, school vacations

Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .

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Secular holiday : Capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and other principal Allied nations) in Berlin on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender was signed (in the midnight), it was already May 9 in the USSR and Eastern Europe.

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Secular holiday : On June 27, 1997, under the auspices of the United Nations, the President of Tajikistan and the leader of the United Tajik Opposition signed a general agreement to put an end to fratricidal conflict in Tajikistan, to ensure mutual forgiveness and amnesty, to return Tajik refugees to their homes, and to create the conditions for the democratic development of society. not a paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday

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Secular holiday : In 1924 Tajikistan became an autonomous republic within the new Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, and in 1929 the country became a full-fledged Soviet republic. In the late 1980s, the openness of the Soviet regime of Mikhail S. Gorbachev stimulated a nationalist movement in Tajikistan, and Tajik leaders declared independence on September 9, 1991, when the dissolution of the Soviet Union became obvious. Paid holiday when falling on Friday or Saturday [Wikipedia]

Secular holiday : Adopted by a national referendum on 6 November 1994.

Culture : President Emomali Rakhmon, former collective farm boss, was elected head of parliament on November 16, 1992, as the ex-Soviet state reeled from the outbreak of a civil war won five years later by pro-government forces. Rakhmon was later elected president in 1994.