Police check in Moscow after the terrorist attack (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Kyrgyz working in Russia are being targeted by armed group recruiters who force them to carry out violent acts, Kyrgyzstan’s labor ministry announced today.
Seven suspects from Tajikistan and one from neighboring Kyrgyzstan have been arrested in connection with Friday’s deadly attacks at a concert venue near Moscow.
Hundreds of thousands of people from the Muslim Central Asian country work in Russia, and Kyrgyzstan’s labor ministry said armed recruiters were targeting them through social media, messaging apps and dating websites.
Last week’s bloody attack has stoked anti-immigrant sentiment in Russia, particularly toward workers from the predominantly Muslim former Soviet republics of Central Asia.
Kyrgyzstan’s government this week urged its citizens not to travel to Russia unless necessary, as did Uzbekistan, another major source of migrant workers to Russia.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack and released a video of the attack that killed 143 people. Russia, without presenting any evidence, has expressed suspicions that there is a Ukrainian finger behind the attack, which Kiev categorically denies.
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