Salimjon Aioubov (, , Mascho,

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, 18 April 1960) is a Tajik journalist, reporter and writer. In primary school, he began writing articles, anecdotes and stories which were published in children's newspapers in

Soviet Tajikistan The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, also commonly known as Soviet Tajikistan, the Tajik SSR, TaSSR, or simply Tajikistan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1929 to 1991 in Central Asia. The Tajik Rep ...

. After graduating

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, Aioubov worked at different publishing houses in

Dushanbe Dushanbe is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 1,564,700, with this population being largely Tajiks, Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe, and from 1929 to 1961 as St ...

and

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. He was an editor of political and social department of a social weekly newspaper ("Адабиёт ва санъат") Literature and Art, deputy editor Haftganj "Ҳафтганҷ" and editor-in-chief of Charogi Ruz "Чароғи рӯз". He wrote six books and was awarded the Journalists Union of CIS in 1991 and Otakhon Latifi Award in 2017. Aioubov is a senior broadcaster with RFE/ RL’s Tajik Service. After graduating from Tajik State University in 1982, he worked for numerous Tajik media outlets in print, radio, and television. From 1992-1997, he covered the

civil war in Tajikistan The Tajikistani Civil War,, group=pron also known as the Tajik Civil War, began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997. Regional groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan rose up against the newly formed government of Preside ...

, refugee issues, inter-Tajik peace talks under UN mediation, OIC conferences, and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summits. He directed two short documentaries on Tajik issues, ''Mi, Pereselentsi'' (1986) and ''Perpetual Returning'' (1989), and published several books, most recently, ''Hundred colors. Tajiks in the 20th Century'' (

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, 2004).

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Tajikistani journalists Tajikistani male writers 20th-century Tajikistani writers 21st-century Tajikistani writers Tajikistani novelists 1960 births Living people Tajik National University alumni {{Tajikistan-writer-stub