FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE RF STATE DUMA COMMITTEE ON CIS AFFAIRS: MIGRATION POLICY OF RUSSIA TO CHANGE
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 21 2006
MOSCOW, March 21. /ARKA/. The migration policy of Russia will certainly
change, according to the “Novosti-Armenia” agency; this was stated by
the First Deputy Chairman of the RF State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs
Ahmed Bilalov during his meeting with journalists in Moscow. In his
words, directions and terms of changes will be defined gradually.
“Russia first of all is interested in labor resources – people, who
are going to leave for far North to open it up”, Bilalov emphasized,
while expressing an opinion that in this case preference will be shown
for “our countrymen, who speak Russian and have Russian education”.
Besides that, according to Bilalov, a group must be defined, for
which must be set an easy order of getting Russian citizenship.
“Certainly a differentiated approach must be shown here”, Bilalov
emphasized At the same time he stated that this issue is a subject
of special discussions and expressed belief that the basic document
defining migration principles will be approved in Russia in 2006-2007.
According to Bilalov, many sublegislative acts will be passed.
“We need appropriate legalization of migrants in order the law
machinery couldn’t fleece them. For example if Armenians and Tajiks
leave Russia our construction business will rise. I think that
migration issues must be considered on the level of Eurasian Economic
Community (EEC- “Novosti-Armenia”).