"NEW MIGRATION POLICY OF RUSSIA IS AIMED TO PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS’
RIGHT AS WELL," GAGIK YEGANIAN FINDS
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 1, NOYAN TAPAN. When working out the migration
policy, every country attempts to solve the economic, social,
demographic as well as national security problems arisen in front of
it at the moment. Gagik Yeganian, the Chief of the Migration Agency of
the RA Ministry of Territorial Administration expressed such an
opinion at the January 31 press conference, touching upon the new
migration policy of Russia, which, in his words, is aimed to
protection of the migrant’s rights.
G.Yeganian mentioned that by the new legislation Russia make
foreigners’ entrance to labour market easy. According to it, a
foreigner must present only 4 documents: a passport, migration card,
receipt about the state duty and an application to a corresponding
structure to get permission to do work. 10 days instead of former 6-8
months were defined for study of those documents.
The agency chief also mentioned that according to the next most
important change, some limitations were made in Russia in the sphere
of retail trade. Particularly, the number of foreigners living in
markets will make 40% till April 1, and no foreign sellers will at all
be in markets after April 1. Those limitations, according to
G.Yeganian’s estimation, will not influence on Armenian migrants’
activity as the latters are involved mainly in the spheres of
construction and service.
It was also mentioned that according to Russian sources, payments and
taxes annually not credited in the country from outgoing working
activity make about 100 bln roubles. By the way, Armenian business
migrants created 1 mln working places in the RF.