Torokul Doorov

There are seven Kyrgyz migrants have been killed by skinheads in Russia from the beginning of 2008. Recently, Tair Jamgyrbaev, a Kyrgyz migrant worker in Moscow market, was killed yesterday. I decided to give a reference to my article published last year from Moscow: Tuman: RUSSIA: Racial Discrimination Accelerates

I have just received an email from my friend with a link to an incredible story about one migrant from Kyrgyzstan . A labour migrant Hamid Abidjanov, 32, rescued a family (one old woman, her sun and two little children) from a fire in the city of Chelyabinsk in southern Russia. Local people are going to recommend him for a decoration! And a reporter of “Komsomolskaya pravda” newspaper Victor Zagvozdin says: “Hamid Abidjanov has surprised when he first heard that local residents recognized his behaviour like “heroic”. :)

(Please, click to link below) Background Massive emigration from Kyrgyzstan started in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At the time, ethnic Russians returning to Russia accounted for most of the outflow, but, within a few years, the search for better job opportunities had prompted many ethnic Kyrgyz to head to Russia and Kazakhstan as well. Fifteen years of labor migration has drawn not only unskilled workers from the country's rural areas, but also members of the intelligentsia and qualified specialists from urban centers. The State Committee on Migration and Employment estimates that roughly 300,000 Kyrgyz citizens now permanently work in Russia and about 80,000 in Kazakhstan, most of them illegally. Other estimates put the number of migrants as high as 700,000, or one-seventh of the country's population. Low salaries and limited job opportunities are the main reasons for this migration trend. Most migrants are from the heavily populated regions of Jalalabat, Osh ...