Remittances from Central Asian labor migrants sharply decrease
According to the Central Bank of Russia, in the first quarter of 2016 money remittances from Russia to CIS countries amounted to $914 million, which is almost twice as less than in the first quarter 2015 ($1.781 billion) and 3.7-fold less than in the same period in the pre-crisis year 2014 ($3.364 billion), The Times […]
Russian court jails an Armenian due to IS participation
The Russian court jailed an Armenian militant for joining to IS. Vazgen Zargarian, an Armenian resident of Kazakhstan, is sentenced by the North Caucasus Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don because of his attempts to join the IS in Syria. He was previously arrested in 2015 while he was trying to go Syria, RFERL reports. Religious […]