On December 17, 2014, Bishkek was the venue of a working meeting for staffers and experts of RIAC and Kyrgyz National Institute for Strategic Studies on a future joint migration project.
Russia is hosting about 500,000 Kyrgyz immigrants with Russian citizenship and about the same number of Kyrgyz citizens, with quite a lot of migration issues on the agenda, among them the impact of Bishkek's presence in the Customs Union and Eurasian Economic Union, as well as and economic calamity in Russia.
On December 17, 2014, Bishkek was the venue of a working meeting for staffers and experts of RIAC and Kyrgyz National Institute for Strategic Studies on a future joint migration project.
Russia is hosting about 500,000 Kyrgyz immigrants with Russian citizenship and about the same number of Kyrgyz citizens, with quite a lot of migration issues on the agenda, among them the impact of Bishkek's presence in the Customs Union and Eurasian Economic Union, as well as and economic calamity in Russia.
Representatives of the two think tanks discussed the situation, agreed upon the subject of the project, and formulated key research issues and goals, while RIAC also presented its Working Paper "Integration of Migrants: the European Experience and Prospects for Russia" authored by RIAC Expert Vladimir Malakhov, Director of Center for Theoretical and Applied Political Science at Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. The event was attended by representatives of Kyrgyz Ministry for Labor, Migration and Youths, academia and NGOs engaged in the migration issues.
RIAC's delegation included Program Manager Elena Alekseyenkova, Dr. Malakhov and RIAC Expert Yekaterina Demintseva, Leading Researcher of Institute for Management of Social Processes at Higher School of Economics.
