Sherali Khayrulloyevich Khayrulloyev (; ; born 8 November 1949) is a retired Tajikistani general and politician. He was the

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from 1995 to 2013.

Early life

He was born in November 1949 in the village of Hamadoni, in the

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of the

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. He is Tajik by ethnicity. He graduated from high school in 1966. In 1970, he graduated from the Department of Economics, Tajik National University.

Military service

He joined the

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in 1970, and served as a brigade battalion accountancy director. He graduated from the Moscow Finance Institute in order in training for this role. While in the Soviet Internal Troops, he served in the village of Nizhnyaya Poyma in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in the city of

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(capital of the Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). In 1974, while serving in

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, he had his first son. From 1977 to 1988, he worked in the Interior Ministry of the

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. He also served in the Department of Correctional Labor Institutions of the MVD. From 1988 to 1995, he served as Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs Tajikistan. During the

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that began in 1992, he remained loyal to the central government, organizing operations against rebel groups.

Defence Minister

Khayrulloyev became the minister of defense on 7 April 1995. It was previously expected that his predecessor, Colonel Shishlyannikov, would eventually be replaced by Colonel Ramazon Radjabov, rather than Khayrulloyev. He was reappointed by decree on 1 December 2006 after the 2006 Tajik presidential election. In 2010, during a dinner meeting with the departing Richard E. Hoagland, Khayrulloyev allegedly questioned

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's attempts to bring

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into the alliance, saying that "Even the Warsaw Pact didn't subsume losers!" also saying that the

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"indulges the adolescent" referring to President

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. He also added that "Without

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and

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, Georgia has no hope of existing." He resigned in 2013 due to health issues.

Advisor to the President (2014–2019)

On 25 January 2014, the

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appointed him the Advisor to the President on National Security issues. In March 2019, Khayrulloyev retired from military service.

Awards

* Star of the President of Tajikistan * Order of Ismoili Somoni * Jubilee Medal "20th anniversary of the State Independence of Tajikistan" * Honored Worker of Tajikistan * Order of the Badge of Honour of the USSR; * Honored Worker of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs * 10 personnel medals of USSR

Personal life

Khayrulloyev is married, and has 2 children. His son Tokhir is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Tajik military, graduating from the Mastibek Tashmukhamedov Military Lyceum of the Ministry of Defense. He is now a Deputy Secretary General of the CSTO. His brother Mirale Khayrulloyev was the former head of the

Khatlon Khatlon Region (), one of the four provinces of Tajikistan, is the most populous of the four first-level administrative regions in the country. It is situated in the southwest of the country, between the Hisor Range, Hisor (Gissar) Range in the n ...

administration of the Agency for Drug Control. He is fluent in Tajik, Russian and Uzbek.

Links

Шерали Хайруллоев на встрече с активистами Хорога

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khayrulloyev, Sherali Living people 1949 births Ministers of defence of Tajikistan Tajikistani generals Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation alumni Tajik National University alumni