The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan responded to the situation with Tajik citizens in Russia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan has assessed the situation of Tajik citizens stranded in Moscow airports as “complex.”

According to the ministry, as of the end of the day on April 27, there are 954 Tajik citizens in the temporary detention zone of Vnukovo International Airport without proper sanitary conditions.

The statement from the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs notes that among the stranded citizens are even Tajik students studying in Russia under educational quotas from the Russian government. Although they are not labor migrants, they were not allowed entry into the country. Meanwhile, after hours of waiting at Vnukovo Airport, some Tajik citizens were permitted to enter Russia.

The press service of the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that Russian authorities intend to add 306 people to the so-called “deportation list,” while the number of those already deported has reached 27.

“Such restrictive measures are applied exclusively to Tajik citizens,” the press service of the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs states.

The Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that dozens of Tajik citizens are being held in the detention zones of Zhukovsky, Domodedovo, and Sheremetyevo airports in the Russian capital, where they are kept “without proper conditions,” assessing their situation as “complex.”

The Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that Tajik diplomats are delivering hot meals to Vnukovo Airport for the stranded Tajik citizens, and the consular service of the Tajik diplomatic mission in Moscow has opened a round-the-clock operational headquarters to provide necessary assistance to compatriots on the ground.

At the same time, ASIA-Plus reported, citing the head of the Information Department of the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shohina Samadi, that a note of protest from Tajikistan regarding the violation of the rights of Tajik citizens in the Russian Federation has been handed to the Russian ambassador.