Central Asian governments fret over shrinking remittances from Russia
Sanctions notwithstanding, the country remains a magnet for migrants
Daniyar abdyrakhmanov, a 37-year-old from Jany-Jer, a village in the Batken region in southern Kyrgyzstan, has spent half his life toiling in warehouses and at construction sites in Russia. Two of his three brothers still work there. His wife, a schoolteacher, hails from a neighbouring village. But they met in Moscow, where she worked as a shop assistant. When their son was two years old, they left him with his grandparents and went back to Russia to earn money.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “From Moscow with money”
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