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April 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Another official said the workers probably left the space heater on all night
to stay warm during the frigid Moscow spring. Overnight temperatures plunged
below freezing and much of central Russia
has been hit by snow.
“The fire could have started from the electric space heater. It was
probable left on all night because the structure was turned into living
quarters,” an unnamed investigator told ITAR-TASS.
Police said they have opened a criminal investigation but have not yet pressed
any charges against the market owners.
Russia’s migration service estimates that there are 700,000 Tajiks living
officially in the country – a tenth of their home country’s population of
just under seven million.
Tajikistan was wrecked by a brutal civil war in the early 1990s and then
experienced nearly two decades of ethnic tensions and endemic drugs
trafficking that hampered sustainable growth.
Its economy remains in tatters and some analysts estimate that up to half of
Tajikistan’s young male population is currently trying to make a living in
Moscow and other major Russian cities.
The predominant majority of the migrants who arrive in Moscow do so without
acquiring the official city worker permits that the Russian capital has
required since Soviet times.
Their employment is therefore never officially reported to the authorities and
many end up living in Moscow apartment block basements or makeshift
residences.
Seven migrants were killed in January 2009 when a fire swept through an
underground Moscow garage they were building and had also used as a
temporary living shelter.
Another seven died in May 2011 when a fire engulfed an old abandoned building
in central Moscow.
The presence of Central Asian nationals and workers from the predominantly
Muslim Caucasus region has also stirred racial tensions in the Russian
capital and resulted in repeated deadly attacks.
President-elect Vladimir Putin had vowed to reinforce migration controls while
serving as prime minister for the past four years and won a strong following
from Russian nationalists while heading the Kremlin in 2000-2008.
Source: AFP
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