The head of the Russian Investigation Commission, Alexander Bastrykin, made a number of proposals on tightening the migration policy in the International Law forum St. Petersburg. According to him, the working migrants should come to Russia exclusively for work, without members of their family. Without a spouse, grandmother, daughter and children, he emphasized, explaining this because the fact that the main goal of migration should be an accurate labor activity.
Bastrykin proposes to introduce a system of contracts for foreign workers for no more than a year, then they will be obliged to return to their homeland. At the same time, all costs for maintaining migrants, including houses, health care and insurance, must be completely on the shoulder of the employer.
It is essential that our entrepreneurs, importers and believes that if they don't have them, we will die, turning everything that happens at the cost of the employer. Houses, insurance, medical care, he said the head of the Investigation Committee (quoted for RBC).
In the same meeting, Senator Andrei Kishas attracted attention to the lack of a clear strategy in the state migration policy. According to him, migration is mainly an economic problem, but citizens are impressed that this is a safe issue. We are observing the situation of the situation, when the MPs only solve points, Mr. KL Kl Kishas noted. He said that an unfinished discussion about the new concept of migration policy is currently being conducted, which can make system changes.
Statistical data shows a significant increase in migration to Russia. In 2024, migration growth was up to 568.5 thousand people – the maximum index since 1995. The main flow of migrants from CIS countries: Tajikistan (128 thousand), Uzbekistan (107 thousand) and Kyrgyzstan (105 thousand). According to Rosstat, a typical migrant who is a married man from Tajikistan of working age.
The tightening of the migration law begins after tragic events at the Cro Focus City Hall on March 22, 2024, when a terrorist action accounts for more than 140 people. Among the detention of suspects with Tajik citizens. In response, the government has introduced a number of limited measures, including the regime of special offenders, fines for violating the migration regime and the status of an unwanted holiday for some foreign types.