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 ().
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
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Kazakhstan
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 Entry and residence rules for immigrants adopted in Kazakhstan 
 Residence registration institute revived in Kazakhstan 
 Unemployment level at 5.4% in December in Kazakhstan 
 Employment Program to provide 200 thousand jobs in 2012 
 Migration as a risk factor 
 Three thousand Kazakhstanis to migrate from poor to wealthier regions   | 
Kyrgyzstan
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 Labor Ministry: Information on General Agreement implementation 
 More than 37 thousand Kyrgyzstanis received Russian citizenship in 2011 
 Labor Ministry organizes vacancy fair 
 Cost of living in Kyrgyzstan grew by 25.1% in 2011 
 Ulan Koshmatov: We have talented youth 
 A Kyrgyzstani slaved for 11 years 
 Amankul Omushev, one of the distinguished compatriots of Moscow diaspora 
 About migrants - unadorned 
 Migration inflow from southern Kyrgyzstan increases   | 
Uzbekistan
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 Uzbekistan's President orders to employ 516 thousand graduates of colleges and lyceums 
 Real income of Uzbekistan's population grows by 23.1% in one year 
 Russia’s Primorye doctors have to learn Uzbek 
 Russia: Cases filed against dishonest employers of Uzbek citizens   | 
Tajikistan
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 Public Council on Labor Migration formed in Tajikistan 
 Tajikistan's authorities to count labor migrants 
 Strengthening of partnership of Migration Service under the Tajik Government with Representation Office of the World Bank in the Republic of Tajikistan 
 New stage of cooperation of Migration Service under the Tajik Government with Red Cross 
 Devonaev: It is necessary to prepare specialists in-demand for countries' employers 
 Tajikistan: Russian Remittances Soar 33 Percent  
 Official level of unemployment makes up 2.6% of the economically active population in Tajikistan 
 First exams for participants of pilot project to prepare labor migrants 
 Tajik Migration Service urges migrants in Russia to sign labor agreements 
 Dushanbe discusses realization of Tajik-Russian project on labor migrants  
 Representative Office of Tajik Migration Service in RF helps migrants acquire salaries for four months 
 Lawyers to protect Tajik migrants' interests 
 Tajik Gastarbeiter do not hurry to invest in business in homeland 
 Videoclips and newspaper to be issued for Tajik migrants  
 Tajiks to be allotted land for farming in Leningrad oblast  | 
Russia
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 Order to inset changes in Provision on Rules and Regulations to Consider Issues of Citizenship 
 Order of Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development on list of professions to be quoted 
 Rating system for migrants to be developed in Russia 
 Government announces migration quota applications 
 Employers to be imposed to pay to Pension Fund for Gastarbeiter 
 Putin instructs to initiate criminal act against officials pressing migrants 
 Head of St. Petersburg FMS Department: Foreigners banned from going to protests 
 Russians support toughening the migration policy 
 FMS: Introducing visa regime for CIS to prevent illegal migration not necessary 
 Putin defines duration of entry denial for violators of Russian migration laws 
 Migrants have to be provided minimum labor and living conditions 
 Russia: Fingerprints to be taken from all migrants in St. Petersburg 
 Migrants to be chucked out of lofts and basements 
 Prokhorenko: Migrants come on “appeal” of our business which wants cheap labor 
 Gastarbeiter will speak Russian only after a few years 
 While migrants are still “in the shadow”   | 
Bilateral/Multilateral
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 Nearly 50 migrants study Russian free of cost in Stavropol mosques 
 Labor migrants in Russia do not confront ethnic identity 
 Gastarbeiter want to work legally  | 
Analytics
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 FMS Director Konstantion Romodanovski – on fight against illegal migration In Russian: . 
 Cheap and angry: labor migrants inflow in Russia is unavoidable In Russian: . 
 Who makes money on Gastarbeiter in Russia? In Russian: . 
 Migration policy escalates before the elections In Russian: . 
 Migrant – homeland rescuer: each has to be met with fanfare In Russian: . 
 Deputies criticize journalists who publish incorrect information about migrants In Russian: . 
 Blackened reputation cannot be “whitened” by policy technologies… In Russian: . 
 Mass return of migrants and social outbreak which will delete those who make money on people's suffering In Russian: . 
 Route from Kyrgyzstan to Russia and back: where the migrants go In Russian: . 
 Journalist Aida Kasymalieva: Why I went to antifascist protest In Russian: . 
 “Unexpanding” Russia In Russian: .  | 
Publications
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 Documentary film “Working migrants” 
 Brochure of the project “Migration Barometer of the Russian Federation” issued 
 “Labor migration from Tajikistan”, Issue No 33  |