Detained Vietnamese laborers at Golyanovo camp (pics) TUOI TRE The woman cries in front of my camera. She could not speak Russian like her fellow-country people. Andrey Stenin They are living in difficult days and don’t know when they would be deported from Russia. During the past days, the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has been in collaboration with local authorities to bring them home. Andrey Stenin Temporary reservoirs and kitchens have been set up at the tent camp. These Vietnamese women wash their clothes at the camp. Andrey Stenin Moscow-based journalist Mitya Aleshkovsky distributes basic necessities to Vietnamese people at Goluanovo camp on Aug 6, 2013. Rustem Adagamov The most recent living condition of nearly 600 illegal Vietnamese workers being detained at a tent camp in Moscow has been adequately described through photos exclusively sent to Tuoi Tre by Andrey Stenin, a photo journalist at RIA Novosti.  Mitya Aleshkovsky, a journalist based in Moscow, has called on people to donate soaps, toothpastes, and warm clothes to those in need at the camp and received great supports from his friends on Facebook. Thousands of illegal foreign labor migrants, most of whom being Vietnamese nationals, were detained during a large-scale sweatshop raid conducted by police in Moscow in late July. They were placed at a camp with 200 green tents located in the eastern Golyanovo district on Aug 1.  It was estimated as of Aug 8 that 560 Vietnamese nationals are detained in the camp ahead of their deportation for violating immigration rules. Vu Thi Yen, who could not speak Russian, said through an interpreter: “I entered Russia more than one year ago. I do not know the exact location of the garment factory I worked for. I’m now five months pregnant and want to return home.” Yen added she did not receive any payment from the factory owner in the past year.  The Russian internal affairs ministry on Aug 6 charged six suspected bosses with using their laborers as slaves. According to Russia investigators, they illegally brought 700 laborers from Vietnam and other countries into Russia, seized all of their personal papers and forced them to work at illegal garment factories as slaves. According to Vietnam News Agency, on Aug 10 the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has collaborated with Russian authorities to bring the first 31 people among 560 Vietnamese nationals home safe and sound.