Tajiks fear discrimination in Russia after Moscow attack

The alleged involvement of Tajiks in the deadly attack in Moscow has shaken Tajikistan. The former Soviet Republic and predominantly Muslim Central Asian country. This is a great tragedy for our country because the image of our country has been tarnished because of this and now the entire Tajik people living in Russia who work and get by there will suffer because of the actions of these criminals. Investors, Altaji people, I believe, do not support terrorism. Terrorism has no nationality or religion. The Tajik people sympathize with the brotherly people of Russia. Nearly a million of their fellow citizens are registered in Russia. They are among the millions of migrants from Central Asia who live and work there. Discrimination towards them and other Muslim minorities is not new in Russia, but has been stoked by the detained suspects being from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Is an inconvenient fact for the Russian President, who was quick to appeal for unity in his first comments after the. No one will be able to sow poisonous seeds of panic and discord in our multiethnic society. Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine and the West have been involved in the attack in order to stir up ethnic tensions. Suggestion echoed by the head of Russia’s Orthodox Church, with Russia’s economy facing pressures linked to its full scale invasion of Ukraine. Central Asian migrant laborers are helping to keep its military supply chain going, while Russia’s Muslim minorities make up a growing number of the soldiers on the frontline.