... which seems especially urgent as some Western states possess impressive pools of competent immigrants and local specialists working for European and U.S. think tanks under Western grants.
Of course, this contingent requires individual approach, whereas Russian immigration policy lacks mechanisms for assessment, identification or attraction of such specialists.
* * *
Although the USSR broke up more than 20 years ago, Russia's policy toward compatriots residing in ex-Soviet republics is far from finalized. Moscow ...
... policy Concept (draft document) for the period through 2025 incorporates a section on the guiding principles of combating illegal migration:
improving the legal base of countermeasures against illegal migration;
upgrading the penalties for violating Russian migration law;
establishing and improving the immigration control system by introducing this notion into Russian law, identifying the competent bodies and drawing up a list of respective powers;
improving the system of state control over the entry and ...
On July 15, Ritz-Carlton, Moscow, hosted consultations on Russian demography and migration policy between the Russian International Affairs Council and a delegation of the United Nations Foundation Board of Directors, with RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov UN Foundation President Kathy Calvin leading the discussion.
The Russian ...
... (estimate)
Russia
0.29
17,700
6.2
(2012)
13.1
(2010)
Kazakhstan
1.23
13,900
5.3
(2012)
8.2
(2009)
Uzbekistan
-2.65
3,500
1
(2011, unofficial estimate –
over 20)
26
(2008)
Kyrgyzstan
-8.1
2,400
8.6
(2011)
33.7
(2011)
Tajikistan
-1.21
(cyclical labor migration to Russia is insufficiently accounted for)
2,200
2.2
(2009, official estimate; unofficial estimate – up to 50–60)
46.7
(2009)
Туркменистан
-1.9
8,500
(2012, estimate)
60
(2004, unofficial estimate)
30
(2004)
* The Table isbased on ...
The Russian migration reforms of 2009-2010 as a response to challenges of the global economic crisis
The global economic crisis which ravaged the world in the second half of 2008 affected all the regions of the world to various extents, and provoked new debates ...
... groups. Myths or other special features, stemming from historic descriptions and accounting for stigmatization between groups, are formed by the forces interested in creating them.
Photo: tori-tolkacheva.deviantart.com
Anatoly Vishnevsky:
The New Role of Migration in Russia’s
Demographic Development
Today, as the federal government attempts to repair the post-conflict situation in Chechnya, Russian citizens no longer see Chechens on television waging war or dancing a mobilizing Zikr dance; they see hardworking ...
... thousand, up against 3 million students who study abroad. Thus, one cannot say that higher education abroad appears quite attractive for Russians. What is worse is that about half the students and interns do not intend to return home.
The increase in Russian migration is entirely due to its CIS partners. In addition to 1.8 million people registered in net migration figures (
Table 2
), all the unregistered increases of about 2 million people mentioned in the comments to
Fig. 1
, should also be attributed ...
RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev attended a meeting of the Federal Migration Service Academic Board chaired by Director First Deputy Ekaterina Yegorova to present its reader “Migration in Russia: 2000-2012” and handbook “”Migration Field of Russia”.
Dr. Timofeyev also narrated about the key messages of the two works and RIAC’s plans in the area. Nikita Mkrtychan and Julia Florinskaya, members of the authors’ groups, also addressed ...
... East and trans-Baikal area.
Several conceptual texts were selected for this Anthology that from various viewpoints discuss the policies towards compatriots resettling in Russia. V.S. Nikitin, for one, in an interview for the Rossiiskaya Migratsiya (Russian Migration) magazine refers to the migration policy as one of the chief instruments to solve the problem of protecting both the population and the territorial integrity of Russia. N.V. Mkrtchian in his article gives an overview of the problems that surfaced ...
... “International migration processes: tendencies, challenges, perspectives” during which the parties signed a cooperation agreement took place on May 17, 2013.
Konstantin Romodanovsky
, head of the FMS, pointed out that the reader “Migration in Russia. 2000-2012” and the reference book “
Migration field of Russia
” will be of vital aid to the FMS specialists that are facing new challenges on a daily basis, and will help them deal with the economic, social and legal aspects ...
