Professor Ibrahim Usmanov, 71, is one of the Tajik fighters for language and self-determination. Named as a researcher of the history of the press and various processes of journalism, he became known to the civil society as a statesman and politician and is now a fighter for the Tajik language and self-consciousness in the media.
Ibrahim Usmanov was born on September 10, 1948 in the village of Pongoz of Asht district. He graduated from high school in his native town and in 1971 from the journalism department of the Tajik National University.
He began his working experience in the newspaper “Soviet Tajikistan”. In 1976, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow State University and later that year defended his thesis.
From 1981 to 1984 he worked in the University of Kabul. In 1988, the Dean of the Faculty of Philology of the Tajik State University. In 1993, he was appointed Deputy Chairman and then Chairman of the Committee on Radio and Television.
He was the State Advisor to the President on Science and Social Affairs.
He took an active part in the peace negotiations and served as Chairman of the Commission on Political Affairs of the National Reconciliation Commission from July 1997 to 2000.
From January 6, 2004 to December 2006 – First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Republic of Tajikistan. In 2009, he was elected Chairman of the Media Council of Tajikistan.
Ibrahim Usmanov is known for his Tajik studies in recent years, naming the Tajik and Iranian languages as the Persian language. Usmonov’s view is provoked by violent clashes.
Usmonov was also the first person to introduce the legal status of the Tajik language.
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