KHUJAND, November 14, Asia-Plus --Some 40 labor migrants from the Tajik northern province of Sughd have been deported from Russia this year.

“They have been deported from Moscow, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg by planes of the Sughd branch of Tajik State Air Company TajikAir,” Husein Shukurov, a spokesman for the Sughd air enterprise, said, noting that the reason for deportation was not mentioned in the deportation documents.  “Deportation should be carried out at the expense of the guilty side,” said Shukurov, “While in these cases it is hard to establish who is guilty, therefore our enterprise incurs certain loses.”  According to him, of those deported only one passenger has paid for air ticket. 

In the meantime, Russia’s Vice-Consul in Khujand, Stanislav Yevglevsky, said that deportation should be carried out at the expense of those deported.  “If the deported person does not have money, the deportation is carried out at the expense of the air company that carried him to the territory of the Russian Federation,” said Yevglevsky, “This rule concerns cases when person illegally staying in the Russian Federation is detained at the airport of destination.”  “But if foreign citizen is detained for not fulfilling Russian legal requirements in the territory of any city, he is deported at the expense of the federal budget.”