1990 Dushanbe riots convicted for participation in the riots was a future minister of the interior of Tajikistan Yakub Salimov. Smaller scale anti-Armenian incidents were also recorded in another Soviet Central Asian Republic, Turkmenistan. 1990 Dushanbe riots The 1990 Dushanbe riots were an anti-government unrest in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, from February 12–14, 1990. In 1988, in the aftermath of the Sumgait pogrom and anti-Armenian riots in Azerbaijan, 39 Armenian refugees were temporarily resettled from Azerbaijan to Dushanbe. In 1990, the Armenian influx became a subject of the rumour that triggered riots in Dushanbe. The rumour inflated the number of refugees to
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic renamed to the Karelian Soviet Socialist Republic (; ). The Karelian SSR was renamed to the Republic of Karelia on November 13, 1991 and remains a federal subject of Russia. Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; ), or, in short, the Karelian ASSR (; ), sometimes referred to as Soviet Karelia or simply Karelia was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, with the capital in Petrozavodsk. The Karelian ASSR was formed as a part of the Russian SFSR by the Resolution of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK)