Boomen i Moskva har tiltrukket mange gjestearbeidere østfra. Men de kommer til sentrale russiske byer med fare for sitt eget liv. Myndighetene tar ikke høyreekstremismen på alvor.

Sabrina Tavernise har vært i Tadsjikistan og møtt en far hvis sønn ble drept og halshugget av høyreekstreme. De var en hel flokk tadsjikere og holdt sammen, men en dag brøt en av sønnene regelen.

But on the eve of the Muslim holiday of sacrifice this month, Salohiddin Azizov broke the rule. It was a fatal mistake.

He was caught, killed and beheaded on Dec. 5, not far from where he worked at the Pokrovskaya vegetable warehouse south of Moscow, his brothers said. A Russian nationalist group claimed responsibility, calling Mr. Azizov, 20, part of a «non-Russian occupation.» One of his brothers identified his body by the shape of his toes.

«If we are Tajik, does it mean we are cows to be butchered and thrown away?» said the victim’s father, Muhabat Azizov, in his small house here a day after his funeral in mid-December.

Though gruesome, the killing was not unprecedented. It was a grim reminder of the vicious daily attacks against ethnic minorities that have become a part of daily life for the millions of migrants from the former Soviet Union who work in Russia.
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The Tajik news agency, Asiaplus, reported that Tajik authorities had counted 324 deaths among migrants as of Dec. 16, and that at least 80 of them had been killed in ethnically motivated attacks.

«They hate us,» said Nurali Bashirov, a friend of the Azizov family, who has worked in Russia. «If a week went by without an attack, we would celebrate.»

Hva er det myndighetene tenker på? Det er deres naboer de behandler slik. En dag vil det straffe seg.

For Migrants in Russia, Fear Swells After a Killing