The State Duma wants to discuss a migration amnesty for Ukrainians
The Government of the Russian Federation should hold a complete migration amnesty for those arriving in Russia from the territories of the LPR and DPR, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Such an initiative was included in the draft recommendations of parliamentary hearings on the topic of migration policy held in the State Duma, reports Parlamentskaya Gazeta.
“Since 2014, 2,5 million Ukrainian citizens have officially migrated to Russia. About 500 thousand citizens received the right to temporary asylum as refugees. Ukrainian politicians still publicly declare the need to force another 10 million Russians to leave the “independence” territory. And measures for this are already being taken. For example, there is a legislative ban for national minorities to study in their native language in schools,” said Leonid Kalashnikov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs.
The Russian authorities must create the most comfortable conditions for forced migrants from Ukraine both for settling in a new place and for finding work, the State Duma is confident.
In the draft recommendations based on the results of the hearings, deputies proposed that the Cabinet of Ministers develop an additional list of preferences for people from Donbass in Russia when obtaining citizenship, residence permits and when looking for work. In particular, we are talking about the abolition of patents for employment, so that this process takes place according to a simplified scheme through the employment service.
Russian deputies also propose to create a legislative basis for providing those arriving from Ukraine with political asylum rather than temporary asylum in connection with the “massive nature of the persecution of Russian compatriots in Ukraine for political reasons.”
“Viktor Yanukovych, Mykola Azarov, and a huge number of deputies who fled the coup in Ukraine live here. But according to their status, all of them are temporary refugees, voluntary migrants to the Russian Federation,” said First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Konstantin Zatulin.
In the labor market, according to the parliamentarian, it is important to think through the difference in approaches to “foreign labor” and to “compatriots who came to Russia as repatriates.”
“This fundamental difference does not pass through legislative acts. We have a state program for the voluntary resettlement of compatriots to Russia. In theory, this is the repatriation program. But we view it not as repatriation, but as an organized recruitment of labor. We also give them quotas depending on what kind of workers are needed in certain regions. But compatriots must be excluded from the migration flow. They need to be given simplified citizenship,” Zatulin said.
As of January 1, 2018, 125 people received temporary asylum in Russia. The vast majority of them are citizens of Ukraine - 400 percent.
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