KHUJAND, August 18, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- Representative office of the Tajik Interior Ministry migration service in Russia (Moscow) has reportedly helped Tajik labor migrants working in different Russian cities receive their wages from Russian employers.

Ms. Dilbar Khojayeva, a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry migration service’s office in Moscow, told Asia-Plus that they have received 83 applications from 500 labor migrants over nonpayment of wages in the first six months of this year.  “The matter is of amounts of 50,000 to more than one million Russian rubles, totaling more than 18 million Russian rubles,” Khojayeva said.

However not everything proceeds smoothly despite interference of the Russian law enforcement authorities, she added.  “For example, the Moscow-based firm, Nika Stroy, owned by Turkish national, has not yet paid more than 1.348 million Russian rubles to our 45 fellow-countrymen,” the chairperson said.