With each passing year, expatriate laborers from Tajikistan in Russia come up against new difficulties in securing work permits and formalizing their right to live in the country. At the same time, though, something entirely counterintuitive is happening. It is, judging by the figures, becoming easier for those same expats to obtain Russian citizenship. At the start of 2024, the Russian representative office of Tajikistan’s Labor, Migration and Social Protection Ministry issued a new warning to Tajik nationals about new tightened rules for receiving labor patents – the term for a temporary wor…