In February 2025, the news was spreading that the American State Agency financed the site that persuaded the Kyrgyz people to move to the Russian Federation. We checked the reliability of such publications.
The reports that the US agency for international development (USAID) stimulated mass and, as often emphasized, illegal migration to Russia, was widely dispersed on February 10. They say that the department financed the move of citizens of Kyrgyzstan through a site that urged them to leave for earnings in the Russian Federation. As evidence, three screenshots of this site are given, on one of which the USAID logo is noticeable. Some resources that spread the news argue that the agency helped the “destabilization of the situation” in Russia through “mass and uncontrolled importing migrants” to the country.
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USAID is an American government (and at the same time largely independent) agency that It was created To manage US assistance to other countries. This support, as a rule, is aimed at developing health and education, strengthening democratic institutions and providing humanitarian aid.
In late January, shortly after the inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed A decree that has suspended all external assistance programs for 90 days to check them for efficiency and compliance with the interests of the country. Following this, the USAID headquarters in Washington was Closed For staff, and employees were sent on unpaid leave. Entrepreneur Ilon Musk, head of the new department of state efficiency in the Trump government, called the USAID criminal organization and declared: "It is time for her to die." After that, the official account of the agency in the X -sales network belonging to the billionaire It turned out to be inaccessible.
Resources that have published the news about stimulating migration from Kyrgyzstan to Russia with USAID means use a selection of three screenshots as evidence. On one of them, a list of documents for the legal entry of citizens of the Central Asian country in the Russian Federation is listed. The second is reported on the publication of the list of Kyrgyz people who are in Russia and at the same time violating migration legislation. The third indicates the name of the site migrant.kg and it is noted that it was created with the support of USAID and WinRock - an American non -profit organization engaged in the expansion of the rights and capabilities of the vulnerable layers of the population.
Migrant.kg - This is an official site Center of employment of citizens abroad (CTGR), units of the Ministry of Labor, Social Support and Migration of Kyrgyzstan. Its main target - Promoting citizens of the republic in legal search for work in other states, protecting their rights and legitimate interests, as well as observing the legality of their stay in the hosts. The work of the center Financed From the budget of Kyrgyzstan.
TsTGR exists Since 2001, then it was opened as an information consulting center under the State Department of Employment. Migrant.kg is an updated version of the official page of the CTGR. She I earned In 2021, and even then no one hid that the reorganization of the portal was carried out with the support of USAID. The American agency, as a rule, allocates NPO and civilian associations, but working with state institutions is also not uncommon - USAID also collaborated with Kyrgyz ministries healthcare And education.
USAID and Winrock Financed Development of the site migrant.kg in the framework project “Safe Migration in Central Asia”, which was launched in 2019 in all countries of the region except Tajikistan. The budget of the program for five years, judging by the published in 2024 report Winrock, amounted to $ 16.3 million, how many of them were spent on the site is not disclosed. The report states that the funds went to inform citizens about safe and legal migration, identifying victims of human trafficking and the “safe airports” initiative, thanks to which thematic information stands appeared at Central Asian airports. Russia or an increase in migration flows in the document is not mentioned.
The website Migrant.kg provides information about legal employment for Kyrgyz citizens in more than 20 countries, including Russia. They are selected on the basis of agreements that the CTGR concluded with other states or companies. That is, Russia was on the list, including because of agreements The center with the Ozon marketplace, which is looking for employees to its warehouses, the Self -Catfat delivery service, which needs couriers, and Sibstroymontazh, looking for workers for construction. In total, Kyrgyzstan signed dozens of such contracts with different Russian companies, including State.
However, on the site you can find vacancies in other countries. Over the past two weeks, the CTGR in the news section talked about opening registration for seasonal agricultural work in the UK, Offered to work the driver of the bus in Slovakia and invited Apply For seasonal work in Turkey.
In addition to countries, states that are popular among migrants from Kyrgyzstan and give the opportunity to legally find a job with signed agreements are included in the site. So, in list There are countries of the Persian Gulf, several countries of the European Union, Great Britain, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Türkiye, Korea and Japan.
One of the viral screenshots provides recommendations about which documents must be prepared if the labor migrant wants to move to Russia with children. There really is such a list on migrant.kg, it can be found in the heading "The question is the answer". There are probably answers to the most frequently asked questions, but in other publications of the portal It is saidthat some Russian companies cooperating with the CTGR themselves prefer to hiring family couples.
Telegram channels that spread the news about the financing of the USAID website, wrote that it contributed to the mass and uncontrolled migration of the Kyrgyz people in Russia. At the same time, by data The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, after launching the site in 2021, the number of migrants from this republic living in the Russian Federation, on the contrary, has almost doubled. If in 2021 there were about 680,000, then in 2022 it became 587,000, in 2023-408,000, and in 2024-350,000. Rosstat Publishing Only statistics on the arrived and retired migrants, but there the picture is similar. National Statistical Committee of Kyrgyzstan also does not fix the growth of migration to Russia (as, indeed, to other countries) from the moment the site launch. Research of various international organizations related to migration, indicatethat the key reasons for the labor migration of the Kyrgyz people are economic instability in their country and higher salaries in the Russian Federation, and not the availability of an information resource.
Experts put forward Different hypotheses, trying to explain the decrease in the interest of labor migrants from Central Asia to work in Russia. Among the probable reasons, in particular, political instability is called after a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the devaluation of the Russian ruble regarding the main world currencies, as a background of which work in Turkey, the UAE or Asian countries has become more attractive. Moreover, after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall in March 2024, in the organization of which They are accused Including several natives of Tajikistan, migration policy was sharply tightened in Russia. The authorities began more actively conduct raids against illegal migrants, and since 2025 in the country Earned The register of controlled persons: if a foreigner gets into it, he is subject to expulsion and loses many rights (for example, he is blocked by accounts, forbidden to register property and legal entities). One of justifications these measures were a statement about the high level of crime among migrants, although, as before Explained “Tested”, at least until 2022, the share of serious crimes committed by foreigners in the Russian Federation rarely exceeded 2%. Against the backdrop of tightening anti -migrant rhetoric in Russia, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly advised his citizens to avoid traveling to this country. The last time this statement It was published on September 5, 2024.
As mentioned above, the Migrant.kg website has been operating in its current form since 2021, however, attention to the USAID logo has been paid to the USAID logo in its “basement” only in February 2025, when numerous reports on the allegedly unknown expenses of the American State Agency spread on the Internet. According to the TGSTAT service, in Telegram the first post about the declension of the Kyrgyz people to move to the Russian Federation with a combination of USAID appeared February 10 at 00:18 Moscow time in the pro -Kremlin channel Alex Parker Returns (138,000 views). In the morning of the same day about this told In his channel, blogger Sergei Kolyasnikov (Zergulio). His post became viral, gaining 1.8 million views. Both of these telegram channels many times mentioned V parsing “Checked” as distributors, and sometimes the primary sources of false information.
Thus, there is no evidence that USAID sponsored mass (and even more illegal) migration of the Kyrgyz in the Russian Federation. In 2021, the agency supported the creation of a site with legal information on the legal employment of Kyrgyz citizens in different countries. The presence in this list of Russia is associated with the conclusion of official relevant agreements and the popularity of the country as areas for labor migration among Kyrgyz people. At the same time, according to official figures, during the site’s work, the number of citizens of the Central Asian Republic living in the Russian Federation did not grow, but, on the contrary, was sharply reduced.
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