[RFE/RL] In the waiting hall of Moscow's Sakharovo Migration Center that is often packed with foreign workers applying for work or residency permits, a poster -- in Tajik, Uzbek, and Kyrgyz -- hangs on the wall.
"Are you interested in obtaining Russian citizenship in a simplified way by joining the armed forces as a contractor?" it asks.
The permit center is also frequented by army recruiters who single out military-age men to try to convince them to join the Russian armed forces in Ukraine, several Tajik migrants colonists say. |