Some 170,000 Armenian Citizens Face Risk Of Being Deported From Russ

SOME 170,000 ARMENIAN CITIZENS FACE RISK OF BEING DEPORTED FROM RUSSIA

YEREVAN, February 14. /ARKA/. Some 170,000 Armenian citizens are
face the risk of being deported from Russia, Svetlana Stepanova,
a representative of the Russian embassy in Armenia, said Friday at
a news conference.

These are Armenian citizens, she said, who long ago or not so long ago
traveled to Russia and have their permitted 90 days in Russia expired,
but still remain in the country illegally.

Stepanova said that their names are in the migration agency’s database,
and therefore after crossing the border they will be prohibited from
entering Russia again.

“An automatic system works, and it doesn’t depend on human factor,
and either Federal Migration Service or Federal Security Service adds
nothing to it,” Novosti-Armenia quoted her as saying.

Stepanova also said that those who committed two or more offences,
for example, breached traffic rules, are prohibited from entering
Russia for at least three years, and those Armenian citizens who had
been deported have no right to travel to Russia for five years.

Under the revised Russian laws, effective from January 1 this year
citizens of some former Soviet republics, including Armenia, have the
right to remain in the territory of the Russian Federation without
registration for only 90 days within every 180 days. This means that
citizens of Armenia cannot continually live in Russia for more than
six months. -0—

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From: A. Papazian