ARMENIAN MIGRANTS DO NOT HURRY TO RETURN TO ARMENIA FROM RUSSIA: THEY LOOK FOR NEW WAYS TO EARN MONEY
Noyan Tapan
June 26, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Armenian migrants do not hurry to
return to Armenia from Russia: the number of migrants returning from
Russia is not big. The head of Migration Office of the RA Ministry
of Territorial Administration Gagik Yeganian reported this at the
June 25 press conference.
According to him, Armenia expected more return of migrants because
of the influence of world economic crisis on Russia. "We expected a
great number of people to return to Armenia. We had even signed an
agreement with respective Russian migration services to facilitate
the process of their return, but the number of people returning to
their homeland is not big yet," G. Yeganian said. According to him,
though many Armenians lost their jobs in Russia because of the crisis,
all the same, they do not hurry to return to the homeland and look
for new ways to earn money.