DUSHANBE, March 29, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- The Migration Service under the Government of Tajikistan has launched a newspaper aimed at Tajik labor migrants.

The frist edition of Muhojir (Migrant) has already been printed and major part of it has been sent to Moscow for distribution among Tajik labor migrants working in the Russian Federation, Nazmisho Majidov, the deputy head of the information department within the Migration Service, told Asia-Plus Thursday afternoon.

According to him, the newspaper will come out twice a month in two languages: Tajik and Russian.  “ Muhojir will be distributed both in Tajikistan and in the Russian Federation; in Tajikistan, it will cost 1.00 somoni and in Russia, it will cost 8.00 Russian rubles,” Majidov said, noting that in the future, the newspaper will be come out once a week.

This eight-page newspaper will contain materials about the employment realities abroad, legal requirements, activities of Tajik Diasporas in Russia as well as problems labor migrants may face and ways to tackle these problems.

According to the statistical data from the Migration Service, 1,032,620 Tajik nationals of Tajikistan are currently in the Russian Federation in search of better employment opportunities.

We will recall that the first newspaper aimed at Central Asian labor migrants, Turan , debuted in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on March 4, 2011.  Turan comes out twice a month in three languages: Russian, Uzbek, and Tajik.  Russian businessman Igor Belousov is behind this newspaper.