A commission of Tajik railway officials, law enforcement officers, and journalists has gone to Astrakhan to help Tajik labor migrants stranded in the southern Russian city to return home. The stranded migrants appealed for help in a message that was published in the Dushanbe newspaper \"Charkh-i Gardun\" on 28 November. That message said that state air and rail booking offices were refusing to sell tickets to the migrants, and commercial sources were charging more than they could afford. Earlier, a Tajik team was sent to Moscow to investigate fraud allegations made by migrants against the Tajik national transportation office in the Russian capital. (Asia Plus-Blitz)