DUSHANBE, June 12, Asia-Plus -- As it had been reported earlier, the Tajik MFA on June 10 said in a note to the Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Ramazan Abdulatipov, that Tajik authorities are concerned about the brutal beating of Tajik citizens in Moscow.  Tajikistan is urging Russian authorities to investigate the latest attack on Tajik students in Moscow "most thoroughly and objectively."

Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Ramazan Abdulatipov has responded to a note by Tajik MFA with regard to beating of Tajik students in Moscow operatively, according to information from the Tajik MFA. 

The Tajik MFA source says Ramazan Abdulatipov said in his reply to the Tajik MFA that he is ordered to he was charged to offer Russian authorities and Russian public’s regret and concern over the incident. 

The ambassador has assured the Tajik MFA that all necessary measures are taken to investigate the attack on Tajik students at the hostel of Russia’s University of Management in Moscow objectively and thoroughly and punch those guilty.  

“Russian ambassador noted that such incidents should not be considered as any purposefully anti-Tajik actions because increasing waves of migrantphobia and xenophobia in Russia like a number of other European countries have more deeper roots conditioned by consequences of collapse of the single country and ideas of time of troubles,” the Tajik MFA source quoted the note by Russian ambassador as saying.  

Russian ambassador also said in the note to the Tajik MFA that Russian authorities were taking all necessary measures to prevent illegal actions of separate representatives of nationalistically-orientated youth and actively fighting such manifestations and their negative impact on multi-national society of the Russian Federation.