Russian authorities deported 54,400 labor migrants and foreign nationals in the first 11 months of 2025, Interfax reports, citing official court statistics. The figure represents a decrease of approximately 25,000 compared to the same period in 2024, when 79,000 people were deported.
The report notes that the drop in deportations is linked to a presidential decree that temporarily extended the legal stay of foreign nationals — a measure that expired on September 10, 2025.
It remains unclear how many of the deported individuals were citizens of Tajikistan. Each year, tens of thousands of Tajik nationals travel to Russia for work, but many face administrative pressure and legal uncertainty.
Human rights advocates report that in the past two years, Russian authorities have tightened migration rules, introduced blacklists of undesirable migrants, and increasingly deport foreign workers without clear explanations — developments that have disproportionately affected Central Asian labor migrants.
