Ukraine dreams of leaving Belarus without IT specialists, doctors, engineers and students
Kiev intends to create conditions for opponents of the Belarusian government from among IT specialists to move to Ukraine.
The Kiev online publication Zerkalo Nedeli writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The publication recalls that the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov wrote in his blog that the government will facilitate the immigration of five thousand specialists from Belarus. In addition, the ministry even published qualification requirements with quotas for specialties and allocated 600 people each to the Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Lviv regions, 700 to the Kharkov region and 2,5 thousand to Kyiv.
However, migration expert Andrei Gaidutsky told the publication that Ukrainian border guards, customs, migration service, banks, and so on today are completely unprepared for a large-scale influx of immigrants.
He proposes to draw up an immigration plan at the state level to attract Belarusians at the level of 20-30 thousand per year, not limited to the category of IT specialists.
“In addition to IT specialists, these should be entrepreneurs, doctors, builders, engineers, workers in narrow specialties, as well as students. Simplification of immigration conditions should also apply to their families,” the expert believes.
He also suggests not focusing only on Belarus and Belarusians, but attracting migrants from other countries.
In turn, the author of the article calls for “providing real opportunities for Belarusians suffering from Lukashenko’s regime to move to our country.”
“And if the experience of attracting Belarusians to the development of the Ukrainian economy turns out to be successful, it can be scaled up to attract immigrants from other countries,” ZN summarizes.
As PolitNavigator reported, a Minsk IT specialist lost her job due to scandal raised around her by nationalist media.
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