100 Somoni CIS Anniversary

The Commonwealth of Independent States marked its twentieth anniversary in 2011, two decades after the Alma-Ata Declaration of December 1991 formally dissolved the Soviet Union and established the CIS framework among eleven former republics. Tajikistan's membership had been complicated from the outset — the country was consumed by civil war between 1992 and 1997, and the CIS itself provided a nominal peacekeeping force during that conflict.

The Somoni, named for Ismoil Somoni, the 9th-century Samanid ruler, only replaced the Russian ruble as Tajikistan's currency in 2000.