Thread: The life of a illegal immigrant in Russia

Originally Posted by Ronin Tetsuro

Finally! Capitalism has reached the Motherland!

Not capitalism, oligarchism...

Fire at Moscow market kills 17 migrant workers

MOSCOW (AP) — A blaze Tuesday at a Moscow market killed 17 migrant workers who were unable to escape from the metal shed where they were sleeping, the city fire department said.

All were citizens of former Soviet nations in Central Asia, spokesman Sergei Vlasov said.

Several million migrants from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have come to Moscow in search of work. Many have found jobs in construction or at the city's sprawling markets, which sell everything from clothes to construction materials.

Vlasov said the fire that broke out at the Kachalovsky market at 5 a.m. Tuesday tore through an insulated metal shed where the workers slept on bunk beds. The roof collapsed during the blaze, which burned for more than two hours, he said.

Investigators were still determining the cause of the fire, but said they suspected it may have started with electric space heaters. A light snow had fallen overnight.

Sergei Gorbunov, the fire department chief in Moscow's southeast district, told Russian television that workers were unable to exit through the one door connecting their living quarters with an adjacent storage hangar. He did not say why.

Television footage showed that the windows of the blue metal shed were barred and firefighters had pulled away strips of metal sheeting from one wall.

Russia has a poor fire safety record. About 12,000 people died last year in fires across the country.

Fire at Moscow market kills 17 migrant workers - Yahoo! News




Poor people... But... that's what happens.

The life of a gastarbaiter is worth nothing in Russia. They work cleaning snow and icicles off rooftops in the cities in winter, without any safety ropes or anything



There was a case, last winter, in Saint Petersburg, an Uzbek worker cleaning the roof of a apartment high-rise fell to his death. His corpse lay there, in an alley between that building and another for days, snow fell atop it, buried it, nobody bothered to even look for him. When he was discovered missing, another Uzbek was quickly put in his place, and that was that... Disturbing.

Originally Posted by Ronin Tetsuro

Unfortunately there's no one left on the world stage that has the ability to call human rights abuses out on the carpet with any credibility.

True... Everyone's hands are dirty at this point...