Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic along a waterway. After Stalin's death in March 1953, Stalinabad, was renamed to "Dushanbe" on 10 November 1961 as part of the De-Stalinization program. In February 1990, tensions between the Tajiks and Armenians squared off in the republic's capital Dushanbe. 26 people died and 565 more were injured and the Soviet troops put down the riots. Both Yaqub Salimov, the Interior Minister and the youth activists were convicted for the participation in the riots. Later on 24 August 1990, Tajik SSR declared its sovereignty over Soviet laws. By 1991, Tajikistan participated in a referendum in March as part of the
Bosnia and Herzegovina–Republic of Macedonia relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in the capital city of Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina's embassy to Macedonia is in Skopje. Bosnia and Herzegovina–Republic of Macedonia relations The relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia are very good, without any open issues between them. Until 1991, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were both constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. When Yugoslavia started disintegrating, Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia in September 1991. Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence in March 1992. Diplomatic relations between the two countries were established on 12 May 1993. Bosnia and Herzegovina, as