... 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 scenario was apparently ruled out from the outset as contradicting the Kremlin's policy of strengthening regional integration around Russia...

... quickest way of improving your career prospects, both now and for your lifetime. You make a new set of contacts. You learn survival skills. You probably learn a new language. The anthropologist Susan Ossman, author of the forthcoming "Paths of Serial Migration," writes: "The experience of moving from place to place … tends not only to build a person's bureaucratic acumen. It opens up new geographic, linguistic and political spaces for action as well as contemplation." Better...

A migration amnesty law is being developed that could allow as many as five million illegal immigrants to become Russian citizens. A migration amnesty law is being developed that could allow as many as five million illegal immigrants to become Russian...

...." Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." This quote from Albert Einstein is a very convenient explanation for the surge of nationalist sentiment in Russia. Post-Soviet Russia, age 20, is a young country. The migration and demographic shifts that we are seeing 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...

From sweeping new regulations in industries such as pharmaceuticals to the Civil Code revisions and migration amnesty law currently under discussion, Russia's legal environment is constantly changing. The Moscow Times posed four questions by e-mail to four Moscow-based lawyers specializing in different fields about new developments in their areas of...

... NABU claims that the oil terminal may be threatened by landslides, which could cause oil spills in the Baltic Sea. Gunnar Noren, general secretary of the Clean Baltic Coalition, claims that further development of Ust-Luga is a threat to salmon, whose migration routes pass the mouth of the bay. Yulia Aksyonova, the head of KinEK, a subsidiary of Ust-Luga charged with dealing with environmental aspects of the port's development, says the threat to the wildlife of the Gulf of Finland has been overblown...

... March 4 presidential vote, he pitched a strategy to increase the population from the current 143 million to 154 million by 2050 with the help of measures like providing financial and other support for families with more than two children and by raising migration into Russia by 300,000 people a year. 179742

... Voina wrote on its Twitter account early Monday. A few dozen people remained at the site on Arbat on Monday afternoon, while another group of protesters has headed to Kudrinskaya Ploshchad, Ekho Moskvy reported. An anti-Kremlin protest camp has been migrating to various sites around the city center since May 8, among them Staraya Ploshchad near the presidential administration offices and Chistoprudny Bulvar near a statue to Kazakh poet Abai Qunanbayuli, from which the movement gained the unofficial...

... and the bizarre sight of Dozhd television host Pavel Lobkov riding in a red convertible with the Soviet national anthem blasting from speakers. Around 500 people, carrying water, camping mats to sleep on and supplies donated via an Internet appeal, migrated to the next venue, this time an area near a statue of a Kazakh poet on Chistoprudny Bulvar. After the return to the boulevard, the "Groundhog Day"-like scene continued: Navalny spoke to the crowd, police caught up and blocked off the...

... — that is about what the state and the church have done to contemporary art and hope here." Roughly 1.25 million Russians have left the country in recent years, according to data released last year by the state Audit Chamber, which tracks migration via tax revenues. Ekho Moskvy radio cited the head of the state body Sergei Stepashin comparing the wave of emigration to that after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. At Aidan Gallery's farewell party, artists stood smoking and gloomily discussing...

... bizarre sight of Dozhd television host Pavel Lobkov riding in a red convertible with the Soviet national anthem blasting from speakers. Then about 500 people, carrying water, camping mats and supplies donated via an Internet appeal, migrated to the next venue, this time an area near a statue of a Kazakh poet on Chistoprudny Bulvar. There the "Groundhog Day"-like scene continued: Navalny spoke to the crowd, the riot police caught up and blocked off...

... degree” greater than any effect on the ecosystem the crabs can have. But that conclusion concerns the Barents Sea as a whole, over a span of many years. On a more immediate level the crabs can have a significant impact, especially in areas where limited migration leads to a high concentration of the creatures in a relatively small area, such as fjords. “In such cases, of course, with their preference for certain benthic organisms, such as mollusks and echinoderms [a division of marine animals including...