Russia remains the largest labor market for Central Asian migrants

Russia remains the largest labor market for migrants from Central Asian countries.

More than half of the citizens of Uzbekistan who work abroad (about 1.1–1.2 million people) work in Russia.

MOSCOW, October 6 - RIA Novosti. Russia remains the largest labor market for migrants from Central Asian countries, Alexander Sternik, director of the third department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“Despite a slight reduction in the number of labor migrants from the main donor countries of foreign labor - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Russia remains the largest labor market for them due to geographical, cultural and linguistic proximity,” he told the agency.

In May, Deputy Director of the Migration Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan Elyer Toshtemirov told RIA Novosti that about 1.1-1.2 million citizens of the country work abroad, more than half of them in Russia, which remains a key area of ​​employment.