News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 5

Vice Prime Minister is introduced to implementation of “Employment 2020” Program in Kyzylorda oblast
In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/251797.

Labor Minister visits Akmola oblast
In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/251771.

Participants of “Employment 2020” Program stopping education do not have to reimburse expenses in some cases
In Russian: http://www.enbek.gov.kz/node/251772.

Kyrgyz migrants have a chance to accumulate pension in Pension Fund of Russia
In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1330675560.

Almazbek Atambayev: Half of labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan are women
In English: http://eng.24.kg/community/2012/03/07/23309.html.

Draft of Strategy of Social Integration of Migrants discussed in Bishkek
In Russian: here.

Qataris to teach Kyrgyz citizens for further employment
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38288/815.py.

Department of Consular Service at MFA KR opens “hot lines”
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38281/86.py.

As of March 1 nearly 4 thousand jobs available in Bishkek
In Russian: here.

Youth, Labor and Employment Ministry ready to provide vacancies or educate former casino staff at professional colleges
In Russian: http://www.jashtar.kg/index.php/news/230-minmolodezhi-i-zanyatosti-gotovo-predostavit-vakantnye-mesta-libo-obuchit-byvshikh-sotrudnikov-kazino-v-proftekhlitseyakh.

According unofficial data 100K foreign citizens work in Kyrgyzstan illegally – Almambet Shykmamatov
In English: http://eng.24.kg/politic/2012/03/06/23280.html.

NGO: Many voters did not know that they can vote only on the base of residence registration
In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/politics/2012/03/05/181079_npo_mnogie_izbirateli_ ne_znali_chto_golosovat_mojno_tolko_po_propiske.html.

58 children live and work in streets in the south of KR
In Russian: http://www.vb.kg/news/regions/2012/03/09/181618_na_uge_58_detey_jivyt_i_ rabotaut_na_ylice.html.

Nearly 2.4 thousand people attended job fair in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan
In Russian: http://www.24.kg/community/123365-v-yuzhnoj-stolice-kyrgyzstana-v-poiskax-raboty.html.

Tajik MPs ratify Agreement on Fight against human trafficking
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/07/tadzhikskie_parlamentarii_ratificirovali_ soglashenie_o_bor_be_s_torgovley_lyud_mi.

Status of Chinese labor migrants in Tajikistan discussed in Dushanbe
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/status-chinese-labor-migrants-tajikistan-discussed-dushanbe.

Tajik poet awarded Golden medal of Esenin in Russia
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/06/tadzhikskiy_poet_nagrazhden_v_ rossii_zolotoy_ medal_yu_esenina.

Assistance Fund for labor migrants to be established in Tajikistan on their own account?
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/05/v_tadzhikistane_namereny_sozdat_fond_ pomoshi_ trudovym_migrantam_za_schet_samikh_Migrantov.

Tajik lawyer offers to postpone establishment of Migrant Workers Support Fund
In English: http://news.tj/en/news/tajik-lawyer-offers-postpone-establishment-migrant-workers-support-fund.

Assistance to victims of human trafficking
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/02/pomosh_zhertvam_torgovli_lyud_mi.

Two resource centers on HIV/AIDS open in Dushanbe
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/09/v_dushanbe_otkryty_dva_resursnykh_ centra_po_vich_spid.

Chinese language course at Migration Service of RT
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/09/kursy_kitayskogo_yazyka_v_ms_rt.

Will staff of the Migration Service of RT start talking Chinese?
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/09/sotrudniki_migracionnoy_sluzhby_rt_ zagovoryat _po_kitayski.

Tajik migrants employed in Tomsk oblast
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/09/tadzhikistancy_trudoustroeny_ v_tomskoy_oblasti.

Migrants get cheated starting in Tajikistan?
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/06/migrantov_obmanyvayut_uzhe_v_ tadzhikistane.

Officials of the capital plan to ease fate of labor migrants
In Russian: http://www.iarex.ru/news/24079.html.

FMS intend to establish schools for migrants in Moscow
In Russian: http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2012/03/07/954820.html.

Migration positively affects demographic situation in Lenin oblast
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/02/Migratciya-pozitivno-vliyaet-na-demograficheskuyu-situatciyu-v-Lenoblasti-263129.

Heads of utilities companies in Moscow to be fined for keeping migrants in basements and attics of houses
In Russian: http://www.panarmenian.net/rus/news/97438/.

Schools at Orthodox church to teach Gastarbeiter Russian

In Russian: http://www.rg.ru/2012/03/07/emigranti-anons.html.

Moscow. Round table “basement registration or where did Moscow Gastarbeiter got deported?”
In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/news.php?id=1281.

Migrants’ children at Kupchino learn Russian in additional classes
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/02/Deti-migrantov-Kupchino-obuchayutsya-russkomu-yazyku-dopolnitelno-263273.

Situation with illegal migrants in Moscow stabilized
In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/news.php?id=1282.

Boss, hello!
In Russian: http://www.migrant.ru/news.php?id=1282.

Owners of “rubber houses” to be charged in Vladivostok
In Russian: http://primamedia.ru/news/vladivostok/06.03.2012/194573/vladeltsev-quot-rezinovih-kvartir-quot-privlekayut-k-otvetstvennosti-vo-vladi.html.

Construction company pays fine of 200 thousand rubles for one illegal Gastarbeiter
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/05/Nelegalnyi-gastarbaiter-oboshelsya-stroitelnoi-firme-v-220-tys-rublei-263914.

Tajik migrant could not bribe FMS staff
In Russian: http://www.baltinfo.ru/2012/03/05/Migrantu-iz-Tadzhikistana-ne-udalos-podkupit-sotrudnika-FMS-263844.

Tver court bailiffs deport 29 illegal migrants
In Russian: http://www.regnum.ru/news/society/1507621.html.

Russia has more than 600 thousand slaves
In Russian: http://reporter-ua.com/2012/03/02/v-rossii-bolee-600-tys-rabov.

Experts of EDB estimate impact of ratification of CES agreements on labor migration
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/06/eksperty_eabr_ocenili_posledstviya_ ratifikacii_soglasheniy_eep_v_oblasti_trudovoy_migracii.

All-Russia research project on “Migration flows in Eurasian region” to be implemented on March 7-19, 2012
In Russian: http://tajmigrant.com/s-7-marta-po-19-marta-2012-goda-realizuet-vserossijskij-issledovatelskij-proekt-issledovanie-osobennostej-migracionnyx-potokov-v-evrazijskom-regione.html.

IOM: There is no ‘illegal migration’ as such, there is illegal employment of migrants
In Russian: http://www.zpress.kg/news/news_only/33/38269/669.py.

40 migrants selling fake documents detained in Moscow metro station
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/03/02/v_moskovskom_metro_zaderzhali_ 40_migrantov_torgovavshikh_poddel_nymi_dokumentami.

Tajiks in Moscow – Gastarbeiter, drug lords and …, - ‘Sobesednik No 9’
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/914791 or here.

Migration card becomes trump
In Russian: http://caucasia.at.ua/news/na_chuzhbine/2012-03-02-1302.

Central Asian women's shattered 'Russian dreams'
In English: http://www.rferl.org/content/central_asia_women_shattered_russian_ dreams/24509262.html.

R.Ustrahanov: Torture in Immigration Service of Norwegian police
In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/news2.php?st=1331273040.

T.Rakhmatullaev: Migrants need Russia as much as it needs them
In Russian: http://www.centrasia.ru/newsA.php?st=1331271660.

Rimma Kisileva: Kyrgyzstan to have many positive points in Customs Union
In Russian: http://www.24.kg/economics/123087-rimma-kiseleva-v-tamozhennom-soyuze-dlya.html.

Remembering Fatherland
In Russian: http://www.24.kg/ludi_i_sudbi/123031-vspominaya-otchij-kraj.html.

News of Labor Migration from Tajikistan. Review of media on CA and RF No 36

In Russian: here.