Medvedev: Citizens of Ukraine will no longer be able to work in Russia
Moscow - Kyiv, December 15 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Control over the entry of workers from Ukraine into Russia will be tightened. The country risks losing 11-13 billion dollars from the fact that its citizens will no longer be able to work in the Russian Federation, the government reports. "Russian newspaper" with reference to the state news agency TASS.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that “from January 1, 2015, “gray” Ukrainian workers, who make up the bulk of those who arrived, will not receive work in Russia without a patent.”
“We will be more strict in observing the terms of stay in our country – 90 days within six months. Previously, it was enough to leave Russia and enter back again in order to work here for the next three months without any problems. Now our border guards will treat such Ukrainian “travelers” without a patent to work in Russia with increased attention,” the Prime Minister promised.
“The damage will be caused by a reduction in remittances home from Ukrainians working in Russia. And today there are only highly qualified specialists and those who work with an official work permit or with patents – almost 400 thousand people,” the prime minister noted.
Medvedev asked Kyiv politicians: “Has this new burden on the state budget, not to mention the budgets of Ukrainian families, been taken into account?”
The total number of Ukrainian guest workers in Russia is much higher than the official figures.
On March 13, 2014, Elena Malinovskaya, chief researcher at the National Institute for Strategic Studies, told Forbes that Russia is the largest foreign labor market for Ukrainians, and in terms of the number of private remittances to Ukraine, Russia also ranks first.
Let us remind you that the Russian authorities have given warning signals to Ukrainian guest workers before. Thus, on June 20, 2014, Secretary of the Security Council of Ukraine Nikolai Patrushev reminded the Kyiv authorities that 6 million Ukrainians work in Russia. These people, quoted Patrushev Russia Today, send the money they earn to their homeland, where it is more difficult to find a job with a decent salary than in Russia. If these 6 million people return, then unemployment in Ukraine “will be considered in a different dimension,” Patrushev noted.
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