Russia Becomes a Second Tajikistan

According to Russian sociologists, every year 70 thousand Tajiks migrate from Tajikistan to Russia with the purpose of earning some money. From this number of people 68% are men and 32% women. Every year in Russia more than 500 people die or get injured.

Nowadays, in Tajikistan it is hard to find a job with a salary of $100 per month. Most of the Tajik families have 6-15 members in one family. Prices in markets for food and clothes go higher and higher. In order to not end up in poverty, most Tajiks have to go to Russia to earn money and feed their families. Sometimes half of the family members have to go to Russia. They all work in intolerable conditions and try to send all money they earn to their families. Sometimes instead of a son, daughter or father returning home alive, relatives in Tajikistan receive their dead or injured bodies due to accidents in Russia.

Hoibnazarov Muminali, 15 years ago, worked in a factory, had 5 offspring and his family lived happily. Seven years ago the factory closed and Muminali could not find a job in Tajikistan. His sons and daughters were growing up and needed money for education and living. So Muminali went to Russia. For the first 2 years he was sending money every month, and his family was able to improve their living conditions. But in the third year Hoibnazarov Muminali stopped calling and sending money. His family worried about it, and his poor wife cried every day. The elder son Rozik decided to go to Russia and find his father. After arriving in Russia, Rozik tried to find his father everywhere, but he did not have any good results. After this case, neither Rozik nor his family heard anything about Hoibnazarov Muminali.

While sending a father or son or daughter to Russia, the family should understand that in a strange country anything can happen to their relatives. Money can’t be earned in an easier way right now in Tajikistan, that’s why everyone sacrifices something by losing a close relative.