A delegation of the Tajik Migration Service will visit Moscow to resolve the problem over Tajik labour migrants in Russia, RIA Novosti reports.
Illegal migration has become a topical issue after the jailing of Russian pilot Vladimir Sadovnichy and Estonian counterpart Alexey Rudenko on November 8. They got 8,5 years in prison. They were accused of smuggling, illegal border crossing and violation of flight rules. Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service Constantine Romodanovsky reported after that 134 migrants from Tajikistan had been arrested, 100 more will be deported to Tajikistan later.
Russian labour migrant organizations and Tajik NGOs filed a request to Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
Safiallo Devonayev, head of the section for migration and development of the Tajik Migration Service, said that their migrants will be deported to Belarus. A deal between Belarus and Tajikistan was signed in Dushanbe on October 28 on visit of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Devonayev says that the problem with migrants is temporary. 3,157 migrants were deported in 2010, the figure today dropped by over a thousand, he explains. Most were deported for violations. The Russian law-enforcers have 245 Tajik citizens temporarily detained. There are over 674,000 Tajik migrants employed in Russia.
