A team of high school students are facing charges after breaking into an apartment in northern Moscow armed with guns and demanding gold and money from Tajik migrant workers, according to police. A team of high school students are facing charges after breaking into an apartment in northern Moscow armed with guns and demanding gold and money from Tajik migrant workers, according to police. The incident...

... Thursday. The Federal Migration Service has put the number of illegal immigrants in Russia at five million, but taking into account numbers for money transfers abroad, experts think the number could be twice as high. The suggested reforms would allow migrants that have expired work permits but no other violations to voluntarily surrender to authorities and obtain legal status. The idea is not new. Migration of the 21st vice president Natalya Vlasovoi said there have been more than 25 such amnesties...

...," said Kynev, referring to the region connected to St. Petersburg and home to a pro-Putin political elite. If his nomination is approved, Khudilainen would be taking over a region struggling with ethnic tensions between locals and North Caucasus migrants. In 2006, a domestic dispute in the city of Kondopoga led to widespread ethnic violence that was fueled by nationalist sentiments. Khudilainen indicated earlier that he holds a more supportive position toward migrants and welcomed them to work...

... Russian citizens, and they support a visa regime with some CIS countries. The liberals point out that this policy expands the shadow economy and prevents businesses from meeting their need for labor. They advocate abolishing the quota system and giving migrants more legal opportunities to find jobs. Shortly after nationalist riots rocked Moscow in December 2010, the state began working on a migration policy for 2012-25. This strategy follows neither the nationalist nor the liberal path. The restrictionist...

... today are unprecedented in Russia's history. For the first time, foreign languages are heard on the streets of the country's ancient towns, and Moscow has turned into a Babylon inhabited by many nationalities and every race on Earth. This influx of migrants from other cultures naturally provokes mixed reactions from the local population. Russian society is polarized between two extremes — those who welcome migration and cultural diversity as beneficial and those who protest it with signs demanding...

... more time on the streets. During this time we always do more to prevent crimes both committed by them and against them," Meshcheryakova said. However, an unidentified police spokesperson told Ura.ru that the request was aimed at uncovering illegal migrants. "The letter was about citizens of republics like Azerbaijan, Georgia and Central Asia who need to register here," the spokesperson said. "We admit that the letter was not formulated correctly and competently. This is because its...

... were born in Paris. Now Britain is refusing them citizenship. It seems my grandfather's 15 minutes in Manchester weren't sufficient to confer Britishness on generations of descendants. So when it comes to emigration, I'm biased. We Kupers are serial migrants. But it is objective fact that perhaps a third of young people in Western countries should emigrate tomorrow. Now that emigration has become a cinch, it's a no-brainer. Just go already. Emigration used to be hard. When my great-grandparents sailed...

...,” said Boris Kravchenko, president of the All-Russia Confederation of Labor, which organized the rally with the liberal Yabloko party and the social-democratic A Just Russia party. The attendees were diverse, with everyone from Yabloko activists to migrant workers to anarcho-syndicalists waving flags and chanting slogans such as “Power to the people!” But despite such spurts of enthusiasm, the crowd seemed listless, perhaps disappointed by the turnout, which was poor compared with the...