DUSHANBE, February 24, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- More than 870 people from various regions of Tajikistan have moved to Russia under the Russian national program to assist the voluntary resettlement of fellow-countrymen living abroad to the Russian Federation since 2007, when the program was launched, Viktor Sebelev, head of the representative office of Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) in Tajikistan, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

“Families from Tajikistan have moved mainly to Lipetsk, Kaluga, Kaliningrad and Tver regions,” Sebelev noted, adding that 14 Russian regions, including Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Krasnoyarsk, Kursk, Lipetsk, Novosibirsk, Primorsk, Tambov, Tyumen and Khabarovsk, are ready to accept migrants.

According to him, the FMS office in Tajikistan has received resettlement applications from 5,825 Tajik nationals so far and 1,001 of them have been accepted for participation in the program.  Other applications were refused because the documents had been filled in wrong or qualification of applicant does not meet requirements.