Police from Tajikistan Now in Moscow to Deal with Tajik Migrants There

Paul Goble

            Staunton, May 8 – To cope with its severe shortage of police and especially with the problems of crime among immigrant communities, Moscow has agreed to bring in police from their homelands to help Russian siloviki do their jobs, even though the appearance of such foreign policemen in Moscow and other cities offends many Russians.

            The first case of this involved Kyrgyz officers who arrived in the Russian capital in 2024 (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/12/to-cope-with-enormous-shortage-of.html). Last year, Vladimir Putin called for an expansion of this program to include officers from Tajikistan (nazaccent.ru/content/44674-v-moskve-poyavitsya-policiya-tadzhikistana/).

            Now, that additional step is being realized with an unspecified number of Tajik officers taking an ever more public role in Moscow, according to the Nazaccent portal (nazaccent.ru/content/45460-policejskie-iz-tadzhikistana-priedut-v-moskvu-chtoby-reshat-migracionnye-problemy/).

            As their role increases, many ethnic Russians are likely to be offended and upset that their own government has taken this step. At the very least, they will probably give more support to notorious groups like the Russian Community, something that will in itself provoke more problems (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/07/russian-community-complains-chelyabinsk.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-community-now-country-wide.html).