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Rahmon rebuilds the deputy floor of the state

In a single day the Tajik president appointed new deputies at the National Bank, the energy and water ministry, transport, customs, the pensions agency and the state industrial-export bank, with digitalization written into their mandates. The ministers stayed in place; the floor beneath them was rebuilt.

Rahmon rebuilds the deputy floor of the state

The list, released by the presidential press service on 17 July, runs through the institutions that move the countryโ€™s money and freight. Ziyoratsho Gulomzoda becomes deputy chairman of the National Bank of Tajikistan. Parviz Yahyozoda takes the deputy chair at the ministry of energy and water resources, Sukhrob Yokubzoda at transport, Azizullokh Davlatzoda at the Customs Service, Shovali Abdurakhmonzoda at the Agency for Social Insurance and Pensions, and Karimkhon Khotamzoda at Sanoatsodirotbonk, the state industrial-export bank.

The press service gave the cohort a profile rather than biographies: young specialists with foreign languages and modern information technologies, with deputies in the line ministries explicitly tasked with digitalizing production processes.

The deputy level is where decisions are executed rather than announced.

Two appointments outside the money line carry their own weight. Ramazon Rakhmonzoda takes over the Institute of Glaciers and Cryosphere Studies, the body that produces the measurements behind every water argument Dushanbe makes upstream and down. And Aleksey Zolotukhin becomes rector of the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University, replacing Ilkhomuddin Ibrohimzoda, who moves to deputy education minister.

It is the second wave in a month; a comparable round ran on 15 June. Read together, the pattern is bench-building one level below the ministers, across the bodies where policy becomes transactions: the central bankโ€™s supervision desk, the grid and the rivers, the railways, the border tills, the pension ledger. In a state organized around one familyโ€™s continuity, that is the level where the next decadeโ€™s operators are placed.