Russian authorities are reportedly continuing to remove passengers from Tajik trains. Among them are women with children and people with disabilities.
According to some sources, about 200 passengers have been removed from Tajik trains bound for Dushanbe and Khujand over the five past days. The Tajik Embassy in Moscow has sent a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Tajik nationals, who were removed from trains on November 2, applied to Asia-Plus. According to them, about 200 people were removed by Russian border guards from trains at the Aksaray checkpoint in the Russian oblast of Astrakhan.
Many of them have reportedly been removed from trains because of certificates on return to homeland issued to them by the Tajik Embassy in Moscow in exchange for lost passports.
Sarvar Bakhti, a spokesman for the Tajik Embassy in Moscow, today told Asia-Plus by phone that the Embassy had sent a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry, expressing concern over the situation that had emerged in the Astrakhan oblast.
According to him, the Embassy has already confirmed the validity of certificates given to people in exchange for lost documents.
