DUSHANBE, July 6, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- A Tajik-Russian working group to discuss labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia met in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic on July 5.

According to Russian media outlets, preparation of a draft agreement on organized recruitment of citizens of Tajikistan traveling to Russia for seasonal work and opening of the branch of Kazan State Technological University in Dushanbe were a major topic of the meeting.

“The CIS nations know very well that labor migration must not be chaotic and we must develop mechanisms that would suit all of us,” said Anatoly Kuznetsov, deputy director of Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS), “We have come to an agreement to conclude bilateral government-to-government agreements in order to take into account all individual characteristics.  By the way, some 350-400,000 Tajik migrants travel to Russia every year.  What do we want?  We want persons arriving in Russia to be specialists knowing Russian and being aware of the basics of our migration and labor legislation.”

On the opening of the branch of Kazan State Technological University in Dushanbe, its chancellor German Dyakonov noted that the University’s branch in Dushanbe would train specialists for food and light industries as well as for construction sector.

Kazan State Technological University is an innovational scientific educational complex. The University comprises 15 academic and research institutes; runs over 100 Specialist, Bachelor’s, Master’s Degree and Ph.D. programs; enrolls over 27 thousand undergraduate and graduate students, 900 Ph.D. and 100 Post-Doc students from Russia and other countries; employs over 300 Full Professors, Doctors of Science and 800 Associate Professors, Ph.D.s; raises the budget of 1.4 billion rubles.  Institutes are structural academic and research subdivisions of Kazan State Technological University. Institutes consist of faculties, which, in their turn, include academic departments.