Illegal Migration in Russia

... burden of responsibility firmly on the employers’ shoulders (the largest possible fine for illegally employing a foreign national is RUB 800,000 for a legal entity). Over nine months of the year 2012, the total number of entries made by the Russian Federal Migration Service’s territorial bodies regarding administrative offenses related to the rules of staying and working in the Russian Federation numbered nearly 533,500 (in 2011 this figure was 650,000) [1] . At the same time, over nine months ...