Hundreds of Tajik citizens expelled from Vnukovo airport to their homeland

643 citizens of Tajikistan were deported from Vnukovo airport in four days, the Asia-Plus media group reports in its Telegram channel, notes “Interfax”.

In the period from April 26 to 30, out of 3,101 Tajik citizens who arrived at Vnukovo airport – after many days of detention without appropriate conditions – the Russian authorities deported 643 Tajik citizens, the report says, citing the Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A decision on deportation was made against another 117 citizens of Tajikistan.

According to available information, the situation is also difficult at other Moscow airports.

Earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan reported a telephone conversation Foreign Ministers of Tajikistan and Russia Sirojiddin Mukhriddin and Sergei Lavrov. The conversation took place at the initiative of the Russian side on Tuesday, reports Interfax with reference to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that delays when foreigners undergo passport control at the borders of the Russian Federation are temporary and are taken regardless of the nationality of the persons entering. Foreigners began to be checked more thoroughly at the entrance “in connection with the intensification of measures to prevent terrorism in Russia,” the Interfax agency notes.

• On April 28, an official commentary was published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan. It said that at the end of the day on April 27, “954 citizens of Tajikistan are in the temporary detention zone for citizens of the Vnukovo international airport in the Russian capital without providing proper sanitary conditions.” Among them are Tajik students. Of the total number of Tajik citizens stuck at Vnukovo airport, after many hours of waiting, 322 people were allowed into the territory of the Russian Federation.
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, expressing “serious concern about the manifestations of a clearly negative attitude towards citizens of Tajikistan on the territory of the Russian Federation, as well as widespread violations of their rights and freedoms,” on April 29 handed a note of protest to the Russian Ambassador in Dushanbe Semyon Grigoriev. About it reported Radio Ozodi.