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Russia's migrant workers live under the radar

They make up 15% of the workforce and are often subjected to low pay, mistreatment and discrimination

Published Tue, Mar 14, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Washington

ON A brutally cold day in February, hundreds of labourers from Uzbekistan mill around in the snow and mud of a construction site 10 miles outside Moscow. Surrounding them are a series of unfinished 18-storey apartment blocks meant to serve as homes for Russian military officers.

Work has stopped because the men haven't…