A commission led by Kahramon Kuranbayev, an adviser to the President of Uzbekistan, recently visited Russia to assess the situation of migrants studying and working in the country. During a meeting with Vladislav Davankov, the Vice-Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Kuranbayev requested assistance in establishing kindergartens and schools for the children of migrants in Russia.
Russian MP Mikhail Delyagin, in an interview with Govorit Moskva radio, criticized this initiative as illegal. He argued that it goes against the Russian constitution, which prohibits discrimination based on nationality. Opening schools exclusively for migrant children, in Delyagin's view, amounts to discrimination against Russian citizens. He likened it to previous proposals, such as Tajik medical centers serving only Tajiks, which he deemed a deliberate strategy aimed at undermining and ultimately harming Russia.
"I think that Uzbekistan should definitely build kindergartens and schools, but only in its territory. And it [Uzbekistan] must take back its citizens who were pushed to Russia," says Delyagin citing the abnormal situation where over a third of Tajikistan's population resides in Russia.
Notably, in 2022, Mikhail Delyagin made a controversial statement suggesting that Azerbaijan might pose a threat to Russia and proposed a nuclear strike on the country's oil industry. This led to official disavowal by the Russian government, and Azerbaijan initiated an international search for Delyagin.
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