NEWS DIGEST ON MIGRATION IN CENTRAL ASIA NO 25
Date: August 3-9, 2012
Kazakhstan
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 Astana among top three capitals of CIS countries regarding salary level In Russian: or here. 
 Prosecutor's Office of South Kazakhstan oblast to check work of Migration Police In Russian: . 
 Atyrau oblast registers lowest unemployment in the country In Russian: . 
 About 500 residents of Akmola oblast get employed through Employment Program In Russian: .  | 
Kyrgyzstan
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 Next forum of compatriots “Mekendeshter” to be held in 2014 In Russian: or here. 
 Government proposes to simplify assigning ‘kairylman’ status to ethnic Kyrgyz people In Russian: or here. 
 Students’ admission to universities to be based on planning and forecasting of labor market in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Members of the First World Congress of Kyrgyz people and Compatriots urge to join efforts to implement the goals and objectives of the Congress In Russian: . 
 "Mekendeshter" Forum identifies main problems of Kyrgyzstan’s economy In Russian: . 
 Monthly salary increases by 182 som in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Otunbayeva on two forums of compatriots: No one is willing to share In Russian: or here. 
 Kubanychbek Isabekov: “We have no state policy to protect labor migrants’ rights” In Russian: . 
 Jamilahan Begieva: “We should prevent Kyrgyzstan of becoming professions provider of loaders and washerwomen” In Russian: . 
 Munara Toktomushova: “Government should provide moral and legal support to solve problems of migrants abroad” In Russian: . 
 Compatriot from Tyumen (Russia) intends to invest two million dollars in development projects in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Compatriot-entrepreneurs intend to open a laboratory for export of local organic products in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Compatriot in Turkey proposes to develop a project to teach their mother tongue to Kyrgyz children living abroad In Russian: . 
 Human resources become more expensive in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 "Kyrgyzstan" Business Forum to be held in Istanbul on August 24-26 In Russian: . 
 Compatriot from Kazakhstan offers to open KG House abroad In Russian: .  | 
Tajikistan
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 Tajikistan offers to speed up the process of drafting the agreement with the RF on recruitment of migrants In Russian: . 
 Migration Service intends to employ Tajik migrants in South Korea In Russian: . 
 Round table at the Russian FMS on "Responsibility strengthening for violations of the Russian migration legislation" In Russian: . 
 Immigrants from Tajikistan settle down in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast In Russian: . 
 Dushanbe ranks 9th in average monthly salary among CIS capitals In Russian: . 
 90,000 Tajik migrants work in Moscow oblast legally In Russian: . 
 Badakhshan internet blackout dries up critical remittance inflows In English: . 
 Belarus to employ Tajiks deported from Russia In Russian: . 
 Migrant workers can change course of presidential campaign in Tajikistan In Russian: . 
 Krasnodar thanks Tajik labor migrants for help In Russian: . 
 Russia continues shooting feature film about the life of migrants In Russian: . 
 Moscow to host competition among Tajik migrants: readers of the Koran In Russian: .  | 
Uzbekistan
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 Young highly qualified specialists In Russian: . 
 Efforts to support entrepreneurship In Russian: . 
 Mukhlisa gets a job In Russian: . 
 Adygei stops activity of illegal migrants from Uzbekistan In Russian: .  | 
Russia
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 FMS: Punishment for foreign nationals violating immigration laws to be toughened In Russian: . 
 D. Medvedev: We should not be afraid of migrants, we should control them In Russian: . 
 FMS: No amnesty for illegal migrants In Russian: . 
 5 years in prison for organizing illegal migration In Russian: . 
 Medvedev called the formation of enclaves in Russia unacceptable In Russian: . 
 Ministry of Education and Science introduces amendments in procedures of school admission for 'locals' and migrants In Russian: . 
 Russia receives eight million migrants In Russian: . 
 More than 37,500 migrants banned from entry into Russia in last six months In Russian: . 
 Foreign nationals are banned from selling in the streets – Smolny In Russian: . 
 Number of migrants wishing to work in the Southern Ural grows In Russian: . 
 Governor of Stavropol does not want to “filter” migrants and “squeeze them out” In Russian: . 
 New Friendship Park of CIS Population in Moscow oblast In Russian: .  | 
Multilateral
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 Assistance center for labor migrants from Central Asia opens in St. Petersburg In Russian: . 
 The Economist Intelligence Unit: Remittances to former Soviet states begin to decline In English: .  | 
International News
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 France and Germany in the lead among the EU countries regarding number of asylum seekers In Russian: .  | 
Analytics
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 Does the current generation of migrants have a future? In Russian: . 
 All nations are equal. But not all are suspicious In Russian: . 
 "Mekendeshter" forum does not reveal the phenomenon of migration In Russian: . 
 Migration laws can be copied from other countries In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyz migrants: Kyrgyz citizens abroad often disappear without a trace and are found in prisons In Russian: . 
 Alexander Tkachev: “To fight Cossack troops with illegal migrants” In Russian: . 
 Opportunity for migrants – alliance of Kazan and Kant In Russian: . 
 Mekendeshter Forum: First, there was a word In Russian: . 
 Migrant workers often suffer from dishonest employers and officials – declare participants of meeting in Krasnodar In Russian: . 
 Situation with illegal migration in Primorye is under control In Russian: . 
 G. Faskhutdinov: How Tajikistan trains for Russian language test In Russian: .  | 
Publications
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 “Migration policy in CIS countries: needs and alternatives”, P. Kazmarkevich, Open Society Foundation, 2011 In Russian: . 
 “We are in Russia”, IOM, 2012 In Russian: . 
 International Migration, Vol. 50 (4) 2012 In English: .  | 
Announcements
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 Seminar of IOM World Migration Report 2011 In English: .  |