News archive on the topic "Compatriots"

The State Duma is developing a set of measures to attract migrants from foreign countries in order to create some kind of alternative to migrants from the former republics of the USSR. State Duma deputy Nikolai Novichkov reported this on the air of First Sevastopol, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The request to move to Russia from foreign countries amounts to tens of thousands of applications. Moreover, this is like the descendants of our compatriots who in...

Russian “big business” has created a situation where Russian people cannot return to their historical homeland, and instead of them, crowds of migrants are brought in to work. Russian military correspondent Alexander Kots stated this in his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It seems to me that the problem of migrants is based on the desire of big business to enrich themselves at the expense of the cheap labor of newcomers - and the unwillingness to adequately evaluate...

Russia has a sixth of the landmass and only 2% of the total population of the Earth, so we need to do everything possible to return our compatriots to their homeland. This was stated at a press conference in Moscow by the Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on International Affairs, Chairman of the LDPR Leonid Slutsky, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now is the time to work with our compatriots and bring them home. U...

The draft law on citizenship of the Russian Federation, which the State Duma will consider next week, needs to include the concept of “compatriot”, as a representative of the peoples historically living on the territory of Russia. This opinion was expressed at a press conference by the special representative of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on migration and citizenship, first deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Konstantin Zatulin,...

The Russian Federation needs to announce the repatriation of compatriots to their homeland with a simplified procedure for obtaining citizenship. This was stated at a press conference by the special representative of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on migration and citizenship, first deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Konstantin Zatulin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "My point is that we...

Foreigners can enter Russian universities using special exams after preparatory courses in the Russian language, while compatriots with dual citizenship who have Russian passports must take the Unified State Exam in Russian in full. This was discussed by the participants of the interactive round table in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “A foreign citizen can enter the preparatory faculty, learn Russian...

Russian government officials are willing to prepare bills on the rights of migrant workers, but they are slowing down laws on the rights of compatriots. Chairman of the Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Kalashnikov stated this today in the State Duma, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Both officials and politicians like to talk about migrants during elections. Not long ago, the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to our committee with a bill...

On October 15-16, 2021, the Seventh World Congress of Compatriots took place in Moscow, giving hope to these people living abroad. But in reality the situation is not as optimistic as it might seem at first glance. Deputy Director of the Institute of CIS Countries Alexandra Dokuchaeva writes about this in her column for PolitNavigator. About 400 managers and…

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that obtaining Russian citizenship should become more liberal. He stated this today at the Valdai Club, answering a question from the head of RT Margarita Simonyan, who asked to make it easier to obtain a Russian passport “for all Russians,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "You're right. My position is that this tool needs to be improved. There are questions related...

Despite the restrictions associated with the pandemic, the number of compatriots living abroad who voted in the State Duma elections was equal to the pre-COVID indicators. The head of the Federation Council Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, Andrei Klimov, stated this in an interview with Parliamentary Newspaper, PolitNavigator correspondent reports, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Our fellow citizens, people who have the right to vote and live temporarily or...

If even those compatriots who actively work for the Russian World have problems obtaining Russian citizenship, then things are bad. RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan stated this during the VII World Congress of Compatriots Living Abroad, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. During her speech, she asked the audience to raise their hands of those who would like to receive a Russian...

The law, which allows one to obtain a Russian passport without renouncing one’s original citizenship, should have been adopted in the 90s, then half or even the entire Ukrainian population would have been citizens of Russia. This was stated at the World Congress of Russian Compatriots in Moscow by Leonid Kalashnikov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Compatriots Abroad,…

From 2022 to 2030, Russia plans to accept about half a million displaced compatriots. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, Komsomolskaya Pravda writes. “According to the government’s plans, from 2022 to 2030, 500 thousand compatriots should move to Russia, that is, approximately 60 thousand per year. According to experts, the task is more than realistic. Only in very...

In Central Asia, Russians played an important role in the creation of industry and universities, but today this role is distorted in the spirit of national mythology. The director of the Institute of CIS Countries, State Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin said this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda. The publication asked whether the decrease in Russian diasporas leads to the degradation of post-Soviet countries. “Of course he does. Because Russians...