Asia | Central Asia and its Russian dependence
Remittance man
Russia attempts to draw Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan back into its orbit
|BISHKEK AND DUSHANBE
PICK a village in either of the former Soviet Union’s two poorest and frailest successor states, Tajikistan or Kyrgyzstan, and the chances are you will not find many men about. It is not that they are busy in some workshop. Rather, they have left for Russia.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Remittance man”
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