News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 1

Date: February 5-10, 2012

Dear Reader,

I would like to thank you all for your valuable feedback and suggestions on donor organizations, as well as your ideas on improving the format of News Digests.

Taking into account the importance and usefulness of digests, noted by you in your feedback, we will now start issuing the News Digests that only include the title and source of the news until we find a sponsor to produce a more open format. The news can be translated from English into Russian and from Russian into English with the help of online dictionaries (http://translate.google.com/).

The Digests are compiled within the newly created Tian Shan Policy Center at the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan.

Sincerely,

Ainura Asamidinova

Moderator
Electronic Network on Migration in Central Asia
Program Manager
Migration and Social Protection Unit
Tian Shan Policy Center

AUCA

Kazakhstan

Entry and residence rules for immigrants adopted in Kazakhstan
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/894561 or here.

Residence registration institute revived in Kazakhstan
Source: http://rus.azattyk.org/content/kazakhstan_human_rights/24476124.html.

Unemployment level at 5.4% in December in Kazakhstan
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/panorm01.php#18.

Employment Program to provide 200 thousand jobs in 2012
In Russian: http://news.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=357192.

Migration as a risk factor
Source: http://www.kazpravda.kz/c/1328295039.

Three thousand Kazakhstanis to migrate from poor to wealthier regions
In Russian: http://news.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=357201.

Kyrgyzstan

Labor Ministry: Information on General Agreement implementation
In Russian: http://www.mz.kg/news/view/id/545.

More than 37 thousand Kyrgyzstanis received Russian citizenship in 2011
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/panorm01.php#20.

Labor Ministry organizes vacancy fair
In Russian: http://www.mz.kg/news/view/id/546.

Cost of living in Kyrgyzstan grew by 25.1% in 2011
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/panorm01.php#10.

Ulan Koshmatov: We have talented youth
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2903&Itemid=36.

A Kyrgyzstani slaved for 11 years
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2903&Itemid=36.

Amankul Omushev, one of the distinguished compatriots of Moscow diaspora
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2574&Itemid=54.

About migrants - unadorned
In Russian: http://www.traffikunet.kg/?p=1469#more-1469.

Migration inflow from southern Kyrgyzstan increases
In Russian: http://caucasia.at.ua/news/uvelichilsja_potok_migrantov_s_juga_kyrgyzstana/2012-02-10-1286.

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan's President orders to employ 516 thousand graduates of colleges and lyceums
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/panorm01.php#16.

Real income of Uzbekistan's population grows by 23.1% in one year
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/panorm01.php#8.

Russia’s Primorye doctors have to learn Uzbek
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/891811 or here.

Russia: Cases filed against dishonest employers of Uzbek citizens
In Russian: http://migrant.ferghana.ru/newslaw/chronicle/rossiya-protiv-nedobrosovestnyih-rabotodateley-grazhdan-uzbekistana-vozbuzhdeno-ugolovnoe-delo.html.

Tajikistan

Public Council on Labor Migration formed in Tajikistan
In Russian: http://www.ca-news.org/news/893851 or here.

Tajikistan's authorities to count labor migrants
In Russian: http://migrant.ferghana.ru/newslaw/chronicle/vlasti-tadzhikistana-poschitayut-svoih-trudovyih-migrantov.html.

Strengthening of partnership of Migration Service under the Tajik Government with Representation Office of the World Bank in the Republic of Tajikistan
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/02/ukreplenie_sotrudnichestva_ migracionnoy_sluzhby_pri_pravitel_stve_respubliki_tadzhikistan_s_predstavitel_s tvom_vsemirnogo_banka_v_respublike_tadzhikis.

New stage of cooperation of Migration Service under the Tajik Government with Red Cross
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/02/novyy_etap_sotrudnichestva_migracionnoy_ sluzhby_pri_pravitel_stve_respubliki_tadzhikistan_i_krasnogo_kresta.

Devonaev: It is necessary to prepare specialists in-demand for countries' employers
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/06/devonaev_nazrela_neobkhodimost_podgotovki_ kadrov_s_uchetom_trebovaniy_gosudarstv_trudoustroystva.

Tajikistan: Russian Remittances Soar 33 Percent
In English: http://www.eurasianet.org/node/64870.

Official level of unemployment makes up 2.6% of the economically active population in Tajikistan
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/uroven-ofitsialnoi-bezrabotitsy-v-tadzhikistane-sostavlyaet-26-ekonomicheski-aktivnogo-naseleni.

First exams for participants of pilot project to prepare labor migrants
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/01/pervye_ekzameny_dlya_uchastnikov_ pilotnogo_proekta_po_podgotovke_trudovykh_migrantov.

Tajik Migration Service urges migrants in Russia to sign labor agreements
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/migratsionnaya-sluzhba-tadzhikistana-prizyvaet-migrantov-v-rossii-zaklyuchat-trudovye-dogovora.

Dushanbe discusses realization of Tajik-Russian project on labor migrants
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/v-dushanbe-obsuzhden-khod-realizatsii-tadzhiksko-rossiiskogo-proekta-po-podgotovke-trudovykh-mi.

Representative Office of Tajik Migration Service in RF helps migrants acquire salaries for four months
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/predstavitelstvo-migratsionnoi-sluzhby-rt-v-rf-pomoglo-migrantam-poluchit-zarplatu-za-chetyre-m.

Lawyers to protect Tajik migrants' interests
In Russian: http://tribun.tj/ru/index.php?newsid=259.

Tajik Gastarbeiter do not hurry to invest in business in homeland
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2864&Itemid=35.

Videoclips and newspaper to be issued for Tajik migrants
In Russian: http://news.tj/ru/news/dlya-tadzhikskikh-trudovykh-migrantov-gotovyat-videoroliki-i-gazetu.

Tajiks to be allotted land for farming in Leningrad oblast
In Russian: http://migrant.ferghana.ru/newslaw/chronicle/v-leningradskoy-oblasti-tadzhikistantsam-vyidelyat-zemelnyie-uchastki-pod-fermyi.html.

Russia

Order to inset changes in Provision on Rules and Regulations to Consider Issues of Citizenship
In Russian: http://www.migrator.ru/news/?id=387.

Order of Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development on list of professions to be quoted
In Russian: http://www.migrator.ru/news/?id=389.

Rating system for migrants to be developed in Russia
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/02/v_rossii_razrabatyvayut_zakon_ o_ball_noy_sisteme_dlya_migrantov.

Government announces migration quota applications
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/gazeta08.php.

Employers to be imposed to pay to Pension Fund for Gastarbeiter
In Russian: http://www.baromig.ru/news/za-gastarbayterov-obyazhut-platit-v-pensionnyy-fond-.php.

Putin instructs to initiate criminal act against officials pressing migrants
In Russian: http://www.kginform.com/ru/news/20120127/06546.html.

Head of St. Petersburg FMS Department: Foreigners banned from going to protests
In Russian: http://migrant.ferghana.ru/newslaw/interview/glava-ufms-peterburga-inostrantsam-v-rossii-zaprescheno-mitingovat.html.

Russians support toughening the migration policy
In Russian: http://www.migrator.ru/news/?id=388.

FMS: Introducing visa regime for CIS to prevent illegal migration not necessary
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/02/fms_neobyazatel_no_vvodit_ vizy_v_sng_dlya_zashity_ot_nelegal_noy_migracii.

Putin defines duration of entry denial for violators of Russian migration laws
In Russian: http://www.baromig.ru/news/putin-nazval-srok-zapreta-na-vezd-v-rossiyu-narushitelyam-migratsionnykh-zakonov.php.

Migrants have to be provided minimum labor and living conditions
In Russian: http://www.toptj.com/News/2012/02/02/fms_neobyazatel_no_vvodit_vizy_ v_sng_dlya_zashity_ot_nelegal_noy_migracii.

Russia: Fingerprints to be taken from all migrants in St. Petersburg
In Russian: http://migrant.ferghana.ru/newslaw/chronicle/rossiya-v-peterburge-nachnut-snimat-otpechatki-paltsev-u-vseh-trudovyih-migrantov.html.

Migrants to be chucked out of lofts and basements
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/gazeta010.php.

Prokhorenko: Migrants come on “appeal” of our business which wants cheap labor
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2941&Itemid=36.

Gastarbeiter will speak Russian only after a few years
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view
&id=2942&Itemid=35.

While migrants are still “in the shadow”
In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/gazeta09.php.

Bilateral/Multilateral

Nearly 50 migrants study Russian free of cost in Stavropol mosques
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2953&Itemid=35.

Labor migrants in Russia do not confront ethnic identity
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2874&Itemid=35.

Gastarbeiter want to work legally
In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2969&Itemid=35.

Analytics

FMS Director Konstantion Romodanovski – on fight against illegal migration

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2986&Itemid=35.

Cheap and angry: labor migrants inflow in Russia is unavoidable

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2986&Itemid=35.

Who makes money on Gastarbeiter in Russia?

In Russian: http://migrant.ferghana.ru/newslaw/analyze/kto-nazhivaetsya-na-gastarbayterah-v-rossii.html.

Migration policy escalates before the elections

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2944&Itemid=35.

Migrant – homeland rescuer: each has to be met with fanfare

In Russian: http://caucasia.at.ua/news/kto_geroj/2012-01-07-1268.

Deputies criticize journalists who publish incorrect information about migrants

In Russian: http://caucasia.at.ua/news/a_na_samom_dele_pochti_vse_khorosho/2011-12-23-1260.

Blackened reputation cannot be “whitened” by policy technologies…

In Russian: http://tajmigrant.com/podmochennuyu-reputaciyu-polittexnologiyami-ne-podsushish%E2%80%A6.html.

Mass return of migrants and social outbreak which will delete those who make money on people's suffering

In Russian: http://tajmigrant.com/massovoe-vozvrashhenie-migrantov-na-rodinu-i-socialnyj-vzryv-kotoryj-smetet-tex-kto-nazhivaetsya-na-stradaniyax-sobstvennogo-naroda.html.

Route from Kyrgyzstan to Russia and back: where the migrants go

In Russian: http://www.kginfo.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2888&Itemid=35.

Journalist Aida Kasymalieva: Why I went to antifascist protest

In Russian: http://caucasia.at.ua/news/o_migrantakh_bez_prikras/2012-02-06-1281.

“Unexpanding” Russia

In Russian: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/gazeta011.php.

Publications

Documentary film “Working migrants”
In Russian: http://caucasia.at.ua/news/novyj_film/2011-12-28-1263.

Brochure of the project “Migration Barometer of the Russian Federation” issued
In English: http://www.baromig.ru/library/Migration.pdf or here.

“Labor migration from Tajikistan”, Issue No 33
In Russian: here.