How Muslim Migrants Are Reshaping Russia’s Dying Countryside, One Village At A Time
ROZHDESTVENO, Russia — Nazim Soliev is confident that he’s good for Russia. Or more specifically, the 35-year-old native of Tajikistan, the most impoverished of Central Asia’s five former Soviet republics, says his presence here, 200 kilometers northwest of Moscow, is good for his adopted homeland. “‘Better you than the Chinese,’ that’s what my ex-boss told…