Tajik media on March 27 focused on a call made by a Russian State Duma deputy for Tajiks and possibly other Central Asians who want to enter Russia to be made subject to a visa regime. As reports spread of an upsurge in beatings, vandalism and racism in Russia directed at Central Asian labour migrants following the terrorism atrocity at Crocus City Hall in outer Moscow on March 22 that left at least 140 dead, and possibly many more, Tajikistan’s Asia-Plus picked up on a March 25 report in Russia’s Kommersant in which Duma representative for the southwestern Samara region, Mikhail Matveev, made…
