and thirty percent of kyrgyzstan. and whatever some of its nationalist politicians claim russia too has clearly benefited from low cost migrant labor but this larger economic picture does conceal some unfortunate truths migrant workers often operate in a legal gray zone with little or no guaranteed employment rights protections under the law this can leave them wide open to exploitation even facing life threatening has a. thirty's in kyrgyzstan claimed that in the first seven months of two thousand and sixteen alone four hundred thirty migrant workers died in work related accidents in russia. one particular tragic episode caused an outpouring of grief in the country when all teen women died in a massive fire that engulfed the moscow printing house where they worked. some one married with children others were just teenagers. their employer is currently under investigation for violating fire safety rules. being spit on you talk about i see a dog should go by and the guy can then say. nearly but i'm not going to make abo

the sixty year old is from kyrgyzstan near the chinese border it used to be part of the soviet union today it's an independent country which makes it a foreign country a comin back a confusing notion. forty years ago he studied in must go he also served in the soviet red army a year ago he came back here to help his daughter with her children here excepted a job as a cleaner he spent half a year cleaning ten hours a day for good money so he thought. it's rare for people my age to find employment it felt good to know that i had a job and that i'd be paid the next day. and that's how it wasn't first boarded. and that's when they paid me monthly. but then it started to take longer and longer to get my money because then i continued working because i thought i'd be more likely to get my money that way one of them by quitting what is it i want to know what is. the i don't want to. according to official statistics moskos unemployment rate is a mere one percent which sounds appealing for job seekers but common back is far from an isolated case even twenty five years after the collapse of th

the governor sheena said similar in kyrgyzstan's it's like that everywhere people don't like us. out of. more than twenty million people live in greater moscow the tough reality is tangible in order to regulate the labor market and migration an extra hurdle has been created for foreigners employers have to pay eight hundred euros in fees for every guest worker as a result migrants are now no longer officially employed the illegal job market is flourishing and with it exploitation the migrants are vulnerable because they're desperate to earn money. yet. it's no secret that a single migrant working here in russia can take care of up to three families back home. i knew i had to do with my ph d. by the money that. they need every cent on your ride that's how they end up as slaves they accept any job with or without a contract without you if you say to you they don't care if it's off the books. those are perceived. that puts many migrants in a great area if you have the courage to demand their rights that would mean the precarious stamp of revealing the status as an illegal economic m