News Digest on Migration in Central Asia No 36
Date: February 8 - 21, 2013
Kazakhstan
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 Kazakhstan has regulated labor activity of migrants In Russian: . 
 Main migratory exchange comes from the CIS countries - Kazakhstan Statistics Agency In Russian: . 
 239,000 people participated in "Employment-2020" Program In Russian: . 
 Kazakhstan to check salaries of foreign workers In Russian: . 
 Overwhelming majority of young migrants in Almaty stay with no residence permit and official employment In Russian: . 
 Number of educated unemployed grows in Kazakhstan In Russian: . 
 Number of immigration law violations cases increases in courts of Akmola Oblast In Russian: . 
 22 thousand foreigners came to Kazakhstan to work last year In Russian: . 
 488,000 unemployed registered in Kazakhstan In Russian: . 
 Average monthly wage in 2012 in the city of Zhanaozen reaches 216,000 tenge In Russian: . 
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Kyrgyzstan
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 Remittances exceed record 2 billion $ in 2012 In Russian: . 
 Labor, youth and migration might be united into one ministry In Russian: . 
 MP: Government should pay attention not only to the external migration, but also internal In Russian: . 
 Intention to introduce rules of the Customs Union for Kyrgyz migrants In Russian: . 
 Ambassador meets with Kyrgyz citizens working in Kazakhstan In Russian: . 
 Foreign Minister discusses with the Italian delegation the labor migrants’ issues In Russian: . 
 ADB to help Kyrgyzstan to reduce poverty and unemployment in the regions In Russian: . 
 Human rights activists help to build initiative groups in areas of internal migrants residence In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyz Interior Ministry likes the idea of migration patrols in Moscow In Russian: . 
 Russian language test considered useful to search for best employment in Russia In Russian: . 
 Andrey Krutko: Over 20 years about 1 million Kyrgyz people resettle out to Russia In Russian: . 
 General Consul in Almaty requests for free medical services for migrants In Russian: . 
 Urmat Amanbaeva: Most of the unemployed in Kyrgyzstan are young people In Russian: . 
 Tashpolot Baltabaev: The only way to fight unemployment in Kyrgyzstan – export of human power In Russian: . 
 Physicians from the Kyrgyz Diaspora in Russia became aware of labor migrants’ health In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyz businessmen had to move to suburban markets In Russian: . 
 More than 2-fold decline in the number of recipients of unemployment benefits in Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyzstan to adopt immigration quota for 625 representatives of other States In Russian: . 
 Over 21 thousand jobs in 2012 in Bishkek In Russian: . 
 Number of undocumented residents in the capital reaches nearly 400 thousand people In Russian: . 
 Bishkek to host the presentation of a new feature film, shot in South Korea by Kyrgyz migrants In Russian: . 
 Moscow hosts Sunday school for preschool children from Kyrgyzstan In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyz citizens in the Orenburg region often get employed by patent In Russian: . 
 Most Russians favor tightening the rules of entry for the Kyrgyz people. At the same time they vote for the restoration of a large country In Russian: . 
 993 Kyrgyz citizen were deported from Russia in 2012 - MFA In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyz Embassy in Russia provide reimbursement of Kyrgyz migrant wages - 5 million rubles, in 2012 In Russian: . 
 More than 600 new jobs were created in Issyk-Ata district over the past two years In Russian: . 
 To prevent neighbors’ "creeping migration" in the Batken region need to build housing near the border - Razakov In Russian: . 
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Tajikistan
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 Tajikistan and Russia signed agreement on rules of Tajik citizens stay in Russia In Russia: . 
 Karomat Sharipov: “Agreement on migration does not change the fate of labormigrants” In Russian: . 
 MS RT: Most of traveling outside of Tajikistan are labor migrants In Russian: . 
 Human rights activists call Moscow and Dushanbe to draw attention to the violation of migrants' rights In Russian: . 
 Migrants from Tajikistan in Russia: 15 days for registration, three days - for VAT In Russian: . 
 124 residents of Sughd find work at a job fair In Russian: . 
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Uzbekistan
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 Uzbekistan adopts new forms of certificates, to replace the employment records In Russian: . 
 New Jobs - factor of well being In Russian: . 
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Russia
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 Russia: Opposition Coordination Council calls for the introduction of visas for Central Asian countries In Russian: . 
 Labor migrants to pay taxes In Russian: . 
 Russian Government approves shortening of the registration period of migrants In Russian: . 
 Hunting on migrant workers starts in Moscow In Russian: . 
 Russia to allocate budget money for the adaptation of migrants In Russian: . 
 Airlines able to recruit labor migrant pilots In Russian: . 
 FMS YTD denies entry to Russia for two thousand foreigners In Russian: . 
 Quota for foreign workers in 2013 in St. Petersburg is more than 150 thousand people In Russian: . 
 Yekaterinburg to build "township" for labor migrants In Russian: . 
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Multilateral
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 Representatives of the CSTO member states to discuss cooperation on the prevention of illegal migration in Minsk In Russian: . 
 Talented migrants from Central Asia to receive cash prizes In Russian: . 
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International News
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 Level of illegal employment in Latvia is not reduced In Russian: . 
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Analytics
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 Why it is important to introduce visas for residents of Central Asia In Russian: . 
 Cancellation of visa-free regime - the nationalistic rhetoric, which cause great damage to Russia's interests in Central Asia - Russian expert In Russian: . 
 Migrants from Central Asia become a significant part of Moscow In Russian: . 
 How Kyrgyz people overcome unemployment In Russian: . 
 Migrants are changing face of Moscow In Russian: . 
 Moscow to deprive of cash migrant workers In Russian: . 
 Migrants in Russia to be counted on the fingers In Russian: . 
 Prokhorov prepares camps for migrants In Russian: . 
 Allocation of budget money for the adaptation of migrants In Russian: . 
 City authorities start twice actively deportation of migrants In Russian: . 
 Janitors migrants protest in St. Petersburg In Russian: . 
 Kyrgyzstan prompts to enter the age limit for girls going abroad up to 23 years In Russian: . 
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Announcements
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 Informational message about a job fair for foreign citizens In Russian: . 
 Section meeting of demography of RAS scientist’s Central home: "Internal labor migration in modern Russia" In Russian: . 
 The Migration Policy Centre MPC In Russian: . 
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