... qualities and business-related skills, the Chinese diaspora is making key contributions to the development of Southeast Asia, assisting countries in the region in improving their economic fundamentals and their integration into global markets. The latest migration wave from China has increased the ranks of Chinese communities abroad, giving impetus to further economic activities. At the same time, the dominance of Chinese minorities in very profitable sectors and in the export of capital to the PRC is ...
On December 26, 2013 the Russian International Affairs Council, "Creative diplomacy" and the Youth section of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation held the IV annual Debates of young experts in memory of S. Kortunov.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov made the opening speech. RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev moderated the discussion.
During the debates young experts in the field of international relations had an opportunity to discuss some of the most important challenges...
Illegal immigration has been a major issue on the country’s political agenda in recent months. Reports of immigrant arrests sound more like dispatches from the frontline lately. Nearly all political forces in the country have come out with proposals to deal ...
Should Russia introduce a visa regime for citizens of CIS countries?
The problem of illegal migration in Russia has been exacerbated to a large extent by the mixed migration regime with CIS countries that combines both liberal and restrictive tools. The experience of developed countries shows that in order to solve this problem, Russia has to ...
On October 4, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov visited the
Migration Policy Institute
in Washington, D.C. to discuss migration processes in Russia in the context of current global trends.
Moderated by the Institute’s President Demetrios Papademetriou, the meeting was attended by its staff, as well as representatives ...
RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director of Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky addressed the High-Level Dialog on International Migration and Development held in the UN Headquarters in New York on October, 3-4 in accordance with the UN General Assembly resolution 63/225 adopted on December ...
... During the previous 50 years, the main inflows had come from the scientifically, technically and economically advanced European countries like Germany, United Kingdom and France, so the U.S. establishment decided that the trend would hold. In addition, immigration reform in 1965 was implemented on the wave of the civil-rights movement that was already in full swing. This is why the reform's general idea was the abolition of discrimination and all restrictions on entry into the U.S. on racial and ethnic ...
On September 25, RIAC presented its English-language collection of articles "Migration in Russia. 2000-2013" to the Club of Ambassadors of Russia's Neighbor States that regularly holds its sessions at MGIMO-University under the patronage of its Rector
Anatoly Torkunov
.
Migration was chosen as the subject of the ambassadors' ...
RIAC has published English-language collection of articles on current issues of migration in Russia prepared by RIAC experts in partnership with the Federal Migration Service and EUROCEMENT Group.
The book is aimed to familiarize foreign readers with the attitudes of Russian scholars, experts and statesmen. According to RIAC President ...
Migration Drivers
As in previous decades, migration in Russia in the 2000s depended on migration exchanges with the former Soviet republics. Although the migration partners have not changed, what has changed is the relationship between Russia and the ...
