After security forces visited the Bodrost bath complex in Moscow, detained Kyrgyz citizens were asked to write a statement against the police officers, but they refused, the press service of the republic’s Ministry of Labor told RIA Novosti. Now 22 of the 24 people have been released.
The agency specified that four of those detained would be expelled from Russia. In total, 59 people were taken to the police as a result of the check, 25 of whom were issued reports for violating the rules of entry or stay in Russia.
Earlier it became known that migrants occupied a bathhouse in Moscow and did not allow Russian visitors in. The police raided the establishment, detained and took 40 people to the police station . As it turned out, the establishment is owned by a businessman from Kyrgyzstan, who decided to provide bathhouse services only to his compatriots.
After this, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry handed Russian representatives a note asking them to explain the detention of citizens of the republic in Moscow after they refused to allow Russians to visit a bathhouse . The Ministry also called for not allowing situations that could damage relations between the two countries and their strategic partnership to occur in the future.
