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Central Asians Treated ‘Like Crap’ at Moscow Airport

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Eastern & Central Europe, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Citizen Media, Human Rights

I realized that once you find yourself at [the Moscow airport] Domodedovo, you start feeling like you are [crap]. And you feel so not because you are actually [crap], but because the personnel at the airport treat you this way.

In an emotional post, blogger Diana Rahmanova writes [1] [ru] about the mistreatment of Central Asians at the Moscow airport [2]. Millions of migrant workers from Central Asia travel to Russia every year, with many of them arriving at the Domodedovo airport.