He said this at the opening ceremony of the representative office of the multifunctional Migration Center of Moscow in Dushanbe.
“As of November 1, 2022, there are 1.2 million citizens of Tajikistan in Russia,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev announced plans to hold large-scale events aimed at maintaining law and order in places where migrants live in Russia.