FILE PHOTO: People attend prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Moscow, Russia September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov -/File Photo
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - Maksud Mahmudov was among millions of Uzbeks who left their impoverished homeland as soon as they finished school to find work in Russia. In 2014, he and others came back as the Russian economy floundered, but it took two more years to find work.
The 27-year-old now runs teams of builders for hire, taking advantage of a construction boom in his home city of Samarkand following a 2016 change of leadership in the Central Asian state, one of the world's most tightly controlled countries.
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