🇷🇺🇹🇯🌓 Well, well, well, what's got Dushanbe so upset? The Russian ambassador to Tajikistan, Semyon Grigoryev, was handed a note of protest from the Tajik Foreign Ministry expressing serious concern over the widespread negative attitudes towards Tajiks at border crossings.

📌 If some (doesn't matter which country they're from) foreign citizens are being detained or not allowed to enter another country, then the customs or border officials have their reasons for doing so.

This applies to all foreigners, not just Tajiks. And if a certain number of Tajik citizens cannot enter Russia, then, apparently, they were caught doing something illegal, and their presence in Russia is undesirable, as they are unreliable and may pose a danger to Russians.

Such control measures should have been implemented much earlier, and then the problems we're seeing now wouldn't have arisen at all, but better late than never.

🔻The reaction of the Tajik authorities is quite understandable, as the tightening of entry rules is causing increasing unrest within the republic, which Dushanbe is concerned about. It's no wonder, considering that the country's budget is largely formed by taxes collected from migrant workers.

However, the Tajik leadership should understand (and does understand) that migration policy will undergo changes, and they need to adapt to them, rather than issuing notes of protest. That's certainly not in the spirit of good neighborly relations.
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