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Police in Moscow have discovered what they are calling an "underground town" housing illegal immigrants from Central Asia in a Soviet-era bomb shelter in the west of the city.
The discovery was made by police and agents from the FSB security agency and Federal Migration Service.
The underground area was guarded by a four-metre-high [13 feet] concrete wall and barbed wire, said Andrei Mishel of the Russia's ministry of the interior.
It housed 110 men and women.
"The living areas were fitted with bathrooms, bedrooms and even prayer rooms," Mr Mishal added.
Similar subterranean living quarters were also uncovered in February under an official delegation room in the capital's Kievsky railway station. The people found there were also described as illegal immigrants.
Sewing machine equipment The shadowy nature of foreign migration to Moscow was underlined at the end of 2010 by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who said that around 250,000 work migrants were registered in the Russian capital, but that the real number was closer to "several million".
Last year around 10,000 illegal migrants were deported from Russia following court decisions against them.
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According to official accounts, the migrants living in the underground town were working on producing blades and needles for sewing machines.
The entrance to the underground space was found within the grounds of a closed-off factory, added Mr Mishel, without naming it.
The area houses a company specialising in the production of blades, needles and safety pins, and there is also a military radio-technology factory producing S-300 and S-400 missile systems nearby.
It is thought most of the underground inhabitants are now facing deportation, and a further 16 of them will be investigated for alleged criminal activity.
The owner of the factory might also face criminal action.
A foreign worker in Russia in breach of the Migration Act can be fined up to 5,000 roubles ($177; £108) - and the employer can face a fine of 800,000 roubles for each worker.
Divisive issue At the end of February Moscow police uncovered a number of illegal immigrants under Kievsky station.
It is reported that they were working for a company in charge of cleaning the station area, but the migrants had not been cleared to work. As a result, more than 30 cases of administrative violations were brought against the company.
In March, the city's Federal Migration Service unearthed an underground sausage factory, where more than 30 immigrants from Tajikistan and Moldova were found.
They were not officially registered in the city and therefore lived in the factory itself, sleeping on wooden beds.
The issue of illegal migrants in Moscow remains extremely divisive.
In March, Mayor Sobyanin announced that when hiring employees, Muscovite candidates should be treated preferentially, followed by Russians from outside the capital. Only then should foreigners be considered.
According to Moscow's Central Department of Internal Affairs, migrants are responsible for around 70% of crimes committed in the city.
But Moscow Federal Migration Service representative Mikhail Tyurkin said "according to official statistics foreigners in Russia are only only to blame for around 3.5% of crimes committed".
Recently Aleksandr Bastrykin, of Russia's Investigative Committee, said this criminality was attributable to the conditions the migrants live in.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13082606[/url]
Metro 2033
We already have those in the states.
Mole people.
[QUOTE=Swilly;29171307]We already have those in the states.[/QUOTE]
Old Steel Mills in Buffalo....
Under I-10 Bridge.
Pretty much.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;29171477]Old Steel Mills in Buffalo....
Under I-10 Bridge.
Pretty much.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. I think it would be extremely naive of us, Mr. President, to imagine that these new developments are going to cause any change in Soviet expansionist policy. I mean, we must be… increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other mineshaft space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out in superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow… a mine shaft gap!
A photo of the town:
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Reminds me of KOTOR.
Fucking hipsters
I would like to see pictures of this. I might be reading this wrong, but several million were hiding in a soviet bomb shelter?
That can't be good for them, the body needs vitamin d to survive.
Old moscow
[QUOTE=crackberry;29175654]I would like to see pictures of this. I might be reading this wrong, but several million were hiding in a soviet bomb shelter?[/QUOTE]
Several million in all of Moscow, silly.
And the underground town was haunted by this creature
[img]http://www.scoobydooweloveyou.com/demon.jpg[/img]
Such is life in Moscow.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;29171477]Old Steel Mills in Buffalo....
Under I-10 Bridge.
Pretty much.[/QUOTE]
Anyone unused section of subway in any major city.
FFFFFFFF someone said mole people before me!
Damn it, JC!
[img]http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/2/2b/Rukil.jpg[/img]
[i]Lead us to the promised land, offworlder[/i]
I want to go there and take pictures. And hug stuff.
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;29171297]Metro 2033[/QUOTE]
[I]Exactly[/I] what I thought the second I saw the thread title.
Who sneaks [i]in[/i] to Russia?
[QUOTE=toaster468;29179822]Who sneaks [i]in[/i] to Russia?[/QUOTE]
Every. Facepunch. Member. Here.
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;29178920][img_thumb]http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/2/2b/Rukil.jpg[/img_thumb]
[i]Lead us to the promised land, offworlder[/i][/QUOTE]
That is irrelavent as fuck.
[QUOTE=toaster468;29179822]Who sneaks [i]in[/i] to Russia?[/QUOTE]
A lot of them are Chinese.
It's darktown
The russian police should have planted explosives over top of the bunker, made the entire thing collapse on its self. The people would never know.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;29183733]The russian police should have planted explosives over top of the bunker, made the entire thing collapse on its self. The people would never know.[/QUOTE]
Too bad that's illegal as fuck.
It also worries me how you could think this is a good thing to say.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;29183733]The russian police should have planted explosives over top of the bunker, made the entire thing collapse on its self. The people would never know.[/QUOTE]
I wish I could use explosives to collapse your bad posts
I liked them when they were still underground.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;29183733]The russian police should have planted explosives over top of the bunker, made the entire thing collapse on its self. The people would never know.[/QUOTE]
Ok so why exactly would they want to do this?
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