Torokul Doorov

Бул апта Россиядагы мигранттарга байланыштуу окуяларга бай болду. Аларды полиция массалык рейддерде кармады, кээде уруп-сабады... Мен Москва, Тюмень, Новосибирск, Омск, Сургут шаарларындагы окуялар жонундо кабарлап жаттым. Баары "Азаттыктын" сайтында: www.azattyk.org 

10-февралда Human Rights Watch эларалык уюму Орусиядагы мигранттардын абалын иликтеген баяндамасын жарыялады. Анда уюм орус өкмөтүн мигранттардын укугун коргоп, алардын жумуш шарттарын жакшыртууга чакырган. ( Макаланы толук окуу... )

Hi everybody! One more "old" article from me, which was published on www.irinnews.org so long time ago! The link to the original page is at the end of the text: MOSCOW, 17 March 2004 (IRIN) - Over the past five years, Russia has become the primary destination for labour migrants from Central Asia. Fuelled by poverty and unemployment, labour experts say the number of unskilled workers from the region in major Russian provincial cities continues to rise, with construction firms and service providers keen on hiring cheap illegal labour. "The rapid growth in labour migration in the second half of the 1990s has slowed a little, but it is not stabilising yet," Yelena Tyuryukanova, a social researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told IRIN in Moscow. THE NUMBER OF LABOUR MIGRANTS According to a recent study by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on illegal labour in Russia, there were 3.5 to 5 million illegal labour migrants in the country, mainly from Co...

Actually, this article was published long time ago on www.irinnews.org . You can find the link to the article and the end of the text: MOSCOW, 18 May 2006 (IRIN) - Thousands of Central Asian labour migrants in Russia continue to face difficulties over their status in the country, leaving them open to harassment by local law enforcement officials. “If you don’t pay the police, they will never let you go. If they catch you in the street, they’ll extort money for sure,” complained Holmulin Halikov, a migrant worker from Uzbekistan working for a construction company in Moscow. “They threaten to put you in a car and to take you away even when your documents are in order and often demand bribes,” the migrant worker in his 30s said. Almaz, another labour migrant from southern Kyrgyzstan, agreed, noting the number of times he too has had to pay bribes. “If police catch us we pay them 100 to 200 rubles [some US $4 to $7.50] and they let us go,” he said. Due to a longstanding migration regime b...