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Russia intends to take out about 10 thousand migrants from Uzbekistan by charter trains. Yandex is also involved in the project, which needs employees, the Podrobno.uz correspondent reports with reference to RBC.

Dozens of companies have already submitted applications for migrant builders from abroad, who are planned to be centrally imported into Russia by charter trains, said Nikita Stasishin, deputy head of the Ministry of Construction. Among those who submitted applications is the IT company “Yandex”, namely the division that “builds logistics warehouses,” the deputy minister said. In addition, the infrastructure construction company Velesstroy, several “large housing construction companies” and companies that are building “including the Vostochny cosmodrome” have filed an application.

Stasishin said earlier about the mechanism of importing labor migrants from abroad by charter trains in transit through Kazakhstan during the Eastern Economic Forum. In a pilot mode, migrants will be brought from Uzbekistan, the mechanism is planned to be worked out by the end of the year.

According to the deputy minister, the Russian delegation will visit Uzbekistan next week.