MOSCOW, April 27 — Even before Moscow’s coronavirus lockdown, Ibragim Artykov, a builder from Tajikistan, was down on his luck. Over two months, he had four jobs and in all of them his employers either underpaid him or disappeared without paying him at all. Now the 32-year-old, one of 10...
Monday, 27 Apr 2020 05:34 PM MYT
Now the 32-year-old, one of 10 million labour migrants in Russia, can’t find a job at all because of the coronavirus lockdown that is four weeks old. “We can’t live on water and oxygen, and we need to somehow survive. I don’t think there’s anything more terrifying than dying of hunger.” The real figure is likely to be much higher, as millions of economic migrants - many from poor Central Asian republics whose economies rely on them sending home some of their salaries - work in the grey economy where they can easily be exploited or cheated by employers.
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