1990 Dushanbe riots 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 2,500–5,000. According to rumour Armenians allegedly were being resettled in new housing in Dushanbe, which was experiencing an acute housing shortage at that time. Despite the fact that Armenian refugees resettled
Flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic gold in a serif font. The Soviet-era flag was officially replaced on 27 February 1990, when the national Flag of Latvia was reintroduced (while remained legally as a Soviet republic until 6 September 1991), and its use at public events is now banned. Flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic The flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic flag shows a yellow hammer and sickle and outlined star on a red field above rippling water at the bottom, and was adopted by the (former) Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic on January 17, 1953. The first socialist Latvian state, the Latvian Socialist