The government of Belarus has implemented a mandatory knowledge of the minimum of two state languages of the Republic of Russia or Bethlehum – Mandatory for the work of migrants.
From now on, according to the head of the Belarus government of Alexander Turchin, the decree of the Council of Ministers on assessing the knowledge of one of the state languages of the Republic of Belarus, immigrants from other countries that are not members of EAEU.
In addition, the Russian or Belarus language is obliged to know the foreign candidates of the recruitment positions of obstetricians (as well as the general experts of all medical specialties), assistant for outpatient care doctors, as well as health workers.
The document also determines the procedures for evaluating the language knowledge of migrants – in addition to pedagogical workers, officials of the departments of citizenship and migration of the territorial agencies of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic, as well as other officials, should be present in the exam. Payment for costs for a 30 -minute exam is delivered to the migrants themselves.
This Resolution was adopted under the 202nd Decree of the President of the country Alexander Lukashenko on May 21, 2025, on the increase of the role of employers in the field of external labor migration, in which, among others, Belarus employers can identify conditions. He also ordered Belarut employers to organize the control of migrants' activities and conditions, including identifying those responsible for that control under the threat of administrative liability.
The old man once again wiped his nose for our government. What prevents similar decrees and decrees in Russia, where not only owns the language of the state, but in general, the behavior of the migrant causes more complaints?
Start with the fact that we will carefully review the laws of Russia, Doctor of Economics Science, Professor at the University of Finance of the Government of the Russian Federation, Alexander Safonov, suggested in an interview with the group's joint venture.
– And it assumes that a foreign citizen, in this country to get a workplace here, has an obligation to be independent, without the help of the employer, to prove the level of Russian language ownership. In addition, coming, assuming, from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan or other countries, there is a similar procedure to enter Russia, once again, according to our law, required to register directly in the regional agencies of the Ministry of Home Affairs. In addition, to work, migrants also have the obligation to have a certificate of HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases.
In my opinion, additional decrees and other legislative initiatives in this direction are almost meaningless, because in our law, the requirements of knowledge about the state language have been spelled.
However, in our country, there are many indigenous people of other countries, which turns out, not speaking Russian.
– And this is mostly the issue related to the participation of foreign workers to perform the work without skill and seasonal. For example, to harvest vegetables, clean the streets, etc. The work is short, although it is quite difficult.
But in this case, it is necessary to prioritize knowledge of Russian language, if these employees should leave the country? Take a look at the situation in European countries, no less than we are interested in their security. I guarantee you that in any country of these countries, you will find the requirements of mandatory knowledge of the state language for seasonal workers. So this is the problem of a specific employer, the way he will communicate with such employees.
I personally do not see a special semantic load to introduce such a requirement for the seasons of Muslims in Russia, because the cheaper employers that they will be priced, cheaper for our wallet will be their last product.
But it is a completely different problem if we are talking about the professions that require knowledge about the instructions and interaction of workers. Understand the work drawings, Master's instructions and the compliance with technologies implies that all the staff of the group must speak the state language. In this case, this requirement is quite reasonable, and no one objects to it.
However, to present it when it, assuming, the loading and unloading of goods, I believe that it is too much. We introduce him here – I'm afraid, we will not find candidates for these recruitment positions slowly “completely”.
The more Sp: but our people often complain that on the workplace requires a certain degree, foreign workers who do not speak Russian are often found enough. For example, in medicine. How does it turn out?
– I think in such cases, the problems lies in a slightly slightly plane. For example, when we are talking about health care, it is clear that in this case, a foreigner is obliged to own a full state language according to our law. This does not mean that he should say without a voice, but the knowledge at the appropriate level should be.
Therefore, if there are problems with mutual understanding with foreign workers, assuming, in health care or education, you need to deal with the registered agencies, have performed exams on knowledge of Russian language, have granted work permits.
Immediately, it turned out that we have the main problem, in general, in corruption, not in the law?
– Completely true. Remember, not long ago, we followed the tests with the leadership of some authorized universities to conduct exams on knowledge about the Russian language of migrants. As a result, the requirements for such organizations have been strengthened.
For example, in some TG channels for migration issues, the idea of discussing increasingly discussing that Russia should still give complete responsibility of employers not only for Russian language migrants, but in general, for the behavior of foreign workers in the state. And, evaluated by the answers, our citizens like this idea more and more.
– Here, come back to the current Russian law. First, according to him, any migrant to the territory of our country has an individual responsibility for his behavior.
Secondly, in Russian law, no rule will provide the responsibility of the employer for the behavior of a Russian citizen. So why is the employer responsible for a citizen of another country?
You see, we must be aware that if we develop the idea of employers who are fully responsible for our immigrant workers, sooner or later, we will surely rise up to set up a special classic camp. Because in this format, the employer can only provide the requirements in a way – to accompany the migrant from the working area to the residential area, and leave it out of it anywhere, and if they need the store, only under the supervision.
Firstly, there are almost no people who want to work in such working conditions. And, second, employers do not mean a federal project, they simply have no authority to such a function. The employer, according to the current law, has a strict responsibility field – he is responsible for the performance of employees of the requirements related to the organization of work and safety. He could not, in the sense of the ball, climb into the soul of each employee and every second to control the flow of thoughts in his head.
Therefore, it will be a mistake to assign additional functions to employers. Moreover, for such cases, there are other agencies with their appropriate methods and methods.
Shortly thereafter, how can we control the behavior of migrant workers, in which, assessed by official and unofficial messages appearing in the media space, more and more out of control?
– Because all the rules related to our laws are present, including anti -corruption, there is no point in the meaning of something else to disperse and pile.
The question is that this only one or the law exists, then it must be strictly implemented. Therefore, in my opinion, this is the issue of controlling the implementation of the law with the responsible agencies and their personal staff.