05-06-2014

Almost every day border guards of Mostytskyi Detachment let pass the citizens through the western border of Ukraine to Poland wishing to get refugee status in this country. If since the beginning of these events in Ukraine, mainly the refugees from the Crimea departed to the neighboring country, so now with the tension growth in the eastern oblasts, residents of Luhansk and Donetsk go to Poland. Thus, during the previous day a family with many children (spouses and nine children) left the town of Kramatrosk, Donetsk oblast through the check point “Shegeni”. Because of constants fights in the region the parents decided to seek asylum abroad.

Since March of the current year, more than 200 citizens have crossed the border in the area of Mostytskyi Border Detachment, who manifested their wish to ask refugee status in Poland. In total, from March 20 Poland has accepted 266 persons, out of which 260 citizens of Ukraine, 1 citizen of Egypt and 5 Russians.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_4236.htm

04-06-2014

State Border Guard Service of Ukraine informs that no citizens of Ukraine expressed their wish to get refugee status in Russia. But, Russian Mass Media spread information about thousands refugees from the southern-eastern Ukraine, who were accepted by Rostov oblast during the last day and the number of which is growing within each day. They are referring to information spread by Children’s Ombudsman attached to the president of Russian Federation, Pavel Astakhov. It is mentioned that in the course of the day 11417 citizen of Ukraine crossed the border on Russia. For example, on June 2, this number reached 11151 citizens of Ukraine and the days before on May 30 it comprised– 15380 Ukrainians. Almost the same number of Ukrainian cross Ukrainian-Russian border to enter Ukraine. Besides, we shall remind that some days ago Pavlo Astakhov also spread information that as if there was detention of the bus with children on the border on Russia by Ukrainian border guards and that the children had to leave Ukraine on foot. However, no vehicle with children was detained at the border, including children-refugees to Russia.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_4230.htm

04-06-2014

Border guards of Separate check point “Kyiv” detained a passenger in the airport “Boryspil”, who traveled to Istanbul. The man presented the passport of the citizen of Uzbekistan for the check, however, the law enforcement agents established that the document was false. As it was verified later on, the violator was the citizen of Russia in reality. He explained that he came from Caucasian region to Ukraine in spring last year as he was subjected to oppressions. The man, being Muslim, also reported that for a long time he stayed in the east and south of the country with religious purpose. But, within situation worsening in these regions, he intended to leave Ukraine and to go abroad, where one of his families lived. For this aim he as if bought the forgery, because according to his words, the passport for traveling abroad was taken away by Russian law enforcement agents. So far, his further destiny will be defined by the court.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_4219.htm

03-06-2014

… as to June 3, 145 family-migrants arrived to Zhytomyr oblast. 322 persons addressed for assistance in solution of social and everyday issues to bodies of governmental bodies.

As to June 3, 126 Crimean migrants addressed to Department of SMS of Ukraine in Zhytomyr oblast and territorial subdivisions on the issues of preparation of administrative services, the majority of them appealed on the issues of registration of residence place (76 persons) and removal from the registry from AR Crimea (58 persons), for 15 persons residence place was registered for 6 months, for 9 persons – photos were pasted into the passports of the citizen of Ukraine upon reaching the age of 25 and 45, 8 passports of the citizens of Ukraine were drawn and 15 – passports of the citizens of Ukraine for traveling abroad, 3 persons received passports of the citizens of Ukraine with input data about children in them and 2 travel children documents were issued for traveling abroad .

Source: http://dmsu.gov.ua/novyny/360-u-rehionakh/zhytomyrska-oblast/2717-145-simei-z-avtonomnoi-respubliky-krym-ta-mista-sevastopolia-pereikhaly-na-zhytomyrshchynu

02-06-2014

More and more Ukrainians want to move from the eastern oblasts of Ukraine to calm central and western ones, and volunteers are ready to help them in this.  The cconsolidated website vostok-sos.org site was created specifically for these purposes. Since April, the project team helped only inhabitants from Luhansk at the site Eurolugansk.org, and on May 12 clone has started throughout the region. The activists promise refugees to find housing, work and legal assistance. Also, anyone can offer their services to compatriots on a charitable basis. To apply for resettlement, one needs to fill a form entering personal data and information on the composition of the family. You can also add relocation preferences – where, when and by what transport you would like to move. In addition to assistance on resettlement, on the site donations are collected for the armed forces of Ukraine, who beat out the terrorist groups from the region in the frames of Antiterrorist Operation (ATO). The site is constantly updated with the information on the current situation in the East, and the reports are also published about the work of volunteers and application of donations that are received on account of the organization. Earlier, before the annexation of the Crimea, the activists launched an interactive map of places willing to accept refugees from the peninsula at the community “Crimea SOS».

Resident from the whole country assisted refugees – from Lviv and Uzhgorod to Donetsk and Luhansk.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/151934

29-05-2014

Ministry of Social Policy assures that it is ready to provide all residents from the south-eastern part of the country with the housing, who are enforced to leave their homes because of danger to life. However, it certifies that there are different opportunities to shelter refugees in different regions of Ukraine. The most preferred cities for the settlers are still Kyiv and Lvov, however in the Ministry it is reported that the resources of these cities are limited: “We should mark that Kyiv and Lvov, where the migrants arrive more massively, there are certain difficulties in the number of places to locate and at the moment the government works upon the solution of the problem in increase of their number”.  People are proposed to go to Cherkassy, Vinnytsya and Zaporozhskaya oblasts and Transcarpathia, where according to the words of the authorities there is a sufficient number of places to live. Besides, it is stressed that residents of Donbass and the Crimea are to clear information about living conditions in those regions, where they are going to get beforehand.

Situation on social support of internal migrants in Ukraine has aroused sharply after annexation of the Crimea. As to May 8, the peninsula was left by about 8000 residents.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/151818

28-05-2014

Chop Border Detachment hold a service meeting to sum up the results of the activity for the current year. The board and officers of border detachment as well as the chiefs of the departments being placed in Uzhgorod, Perechyn, and V.Bereznyi regions participated in the meeting.

As it was marked by the first chief deputy of the detachment, the guarding of the border in the area of Chop detachment was realized in the conditions of sufficiently tense atmosphere, which is mainly preformed by the flow of illegal migrants. This year border guards apprehended 15% more illegal migrants in comparison with the similar period in 2013, herein, the number of all cases of detention has decreased in quarter. It testifies about the enlargement in the quantity of the groups of “travelers”. For example, the group of illegal migrants contained of 33 persons was detained in March not far from Uzhgorod.

In general, in the course of the reporting period of the present year the subdivisions of border control detained 102 illegal migrants. When realizing passport control there were 2 forged, 2 someone and 40 invalid passport documents detected.  About 180 persons were let through the border, in 109 cases there were violations as to stay rules by the foreigners in Ukraine. 264 persons were called to administrative responsibility and fined for the sum of more than 450 thousand UAH.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/151733

26-05-2014

Border guards of BS “Kosyno” of Mukachevo Detachment detected and detained four trespassers during the monitoring of the border.  Unfamiliar persons were noticed at the border of Transcarpathia at night with the help of thermal imager. In some minutes border detail caught two travelers and stopped them 50 m before the state border. They did not have any documents, and reported that they arrived to Transcarpathia from Sudan.

Two more residents of this country were stopped by the border guards not far from the first group. Detainees were delivered to border subdivision for processing procedural documents as to Articles 202 and 204-2 of Crime Code of Ukraine.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/151618

23-05-2014

According to UNO calculations, since the beginning of March already 10 000 refugees have appeared, the third of which are children. According to the data of Agency, resettlement of Ukrainians from one region to another one has commenced before March referendum in the Crimea and since that time it constantly grows. Statistics on displacement of persons is formed on the basis of data provided by the Agency from the body of municipal authority. As it is mentioned, there are persons being resettled twice: the first time – from the Crimea, and then – from the east of Ukraine. The majority of resettled persons are Crimean Tatars, however municipal authority has also recently informed about the increase in the number of ethnic Ukrainians, Russians and mixed families. At least, the third of the refugees are children. The majority of the families moves to central (45%) and western Ukraine (26%), however, the part of persons has also been placed in the south and east. The number of asylum seekers from Ukraine to other countries renders to be low. The reasons reported by the resettled persons are: direct personal threatening, fears of persecution or general dangerous situation. Someone mentions threatening received by the phone either via social networks or in the form of messages found by them nearby their houses. People say about fear of persecution because of ethnic origin or religious beliefs. The journalists, human rights activists and intellectuals specify their professional activity as the reason of persecution. Others say that they cannot do business any more. The key problems arising before the internally displaced persons (IDPs) – is access to social services, availability of permanent housing and registration processing on the place of residence. The last one is necessary for access to economic and social rights as well as to means of existence. First of all, assistance to IDPs is organized through Oblast State Administration, public organizations and voluntary contributions of the citizens. People are provided with shelter by local municipal bodies or stay at private health resorts or hotels. At the present moment, others are placed in private housings. However, the opportunities of host citizens are quickly exhausted. The urgent problems are necessity in permanent residence, extension of opportunities on employment as well as support of public and local organizations in elaboration of long-term solutions for people, who have become internally displaced.

Source: http://www.wcu-network.org.ua/ua/defence-rights/news/OON_V_Ukrain_blshe_trox_tisjach_dtei-bzhencv

21-05-2014

Ukrainians massively move abroad. According to official data, within the years of independence of Ukraine about 2,7 million citizens have departed abroad. Besides, now it is dangerous to stay in the country, thus many look for the happiness abroad.

However, the actual migration losses are in 1, 7 times more than those being fixed by the official statistics.

It was reported by the chief scientific employee of National Institute of Strategic Investigations Elena Malinovskaya during the conference in the frames of the project “Efficient management by labor migration and its qualification aspects”.

“According to data of our official statistics 2,7 million persons moved from the country in the course of the years of independence, about 2 million of which depart to CIS countries and more than 700 thousand to other countries of the world. However, the population census conducted in 2001 showed that the actual migration losses were in 1,7 times more in comparison with fixed official statistics”, – Malinovskaya marked. According to her words, economic instability stays the foremost reason of Ukrainians’ migration.

It is unnecessary to talk about the reasons of Ukrainians’ emigration, only correlation of average wages can be represented. In 2010 the average wage in Ukraine comprised 4% of average wage in Germany, 6% – in Italy, 7% – in Spain, 20% – in Poland and Russia. There is no need to comment on this point.

Flee from Ukraine

The number of migrants from Ukraine has reached 6 million persons or the seventh part of the present population of former Soviet Republic. The corresponding data was published by International Organization of Migration. The half of Ukrainian migrants is the youth in the age up to 35 years old. In particular, the outflow is caused by the students move to Czech Republic, Canada, USA, Poland, Lithuania, Britain, Latvia.

Opinion poll of Kyiv Center “Sofia” testifies that the half of young residents of Ukraine in the age of 18 to 29 is ready to emigrate.

The average wage in Ukraine is about $370 being in the number of the lowest at the post-Soviet territory saying nothing of European countries, it was mentioned by Pavel Rozenko, ex-Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine.  .

Ukrainians run from Ukraine abroad

Experts concern that pensioners, state workers and “dark alcoholic power” will remain in Ukraine. “My source is Ministry of Foreign Affairs: in the course of the last six months Ukraine was left by the same number as in the course of four years before. The exact numbers are marked “secret”, but the problem was under discussion at the higher level. The reaction of the President became the emergency meeting with law enforcement officials: Prosecutor general, the chief of Tax Service, the chief of MOI, the chief of SSU were ordered to exclude the export of money abroad. And people let go”, – it was written by journalist of “Ukrainian truth” Konstantin Usov at his page in Facebook. These several sentences cause vivid discussion. In the context of cost optimization – it is a super scheme. I have read somewhere that only 500 thousand persons are necessary in order export enterprises work and alike servicing the personal needs of oligarchies. And it seems being more secure for our authorities to deliver them from abroad. A foreigner, working on a rotational basis does not presume on pension and cannot participate in voting, is an ideal worker”, – it is written by active user of social network.
Someone is afraid that borders will be closed meanwhile.

According to data of State Committee of Statistics, 19 773 Ukrainians crossed the border in 2011. Only 90 thousand moved abroad “on business”. Half a million were as tourists. The rest (more than 17 million) had chosen the option of “private trip”.  Russian Federation (border of Ukraine was crossed more than five and a half million times), Moldova (more than two millions), Hungary (1 million 700 thousand) and Belarus (a million and the half) became the leaders in the number of visits.  Traditional “shelter” of migrants is USA being visited last year by 21,5 thousand Ukrainians, Canada – 5,5 thousand, Italy, where people often go to work, a little more than – 130 thousand, Portugal – 12,5 thousand. 21 415 296 foreign citizens entered Ukraine in 2011 – a million and a half more in comparison with those departed Ukrainians. Russians – more than 9 million, from Moldova – 4 million, from Belarus – 2,6 million, Polish citizens – 1,7 million, Israelis – 1,2 million.

According to statistics, Ukraine is in the ten of the world countries, which are the leaders on migration.   Due to different calculations, 6,6 million Ukrainians moved abroad for permanent residence in the course of 20 years of independence. “Vacant” places were filled in by the migrants– about 5 million. As to the report of World Bank “Migration and Money Transfers”, Ukrainians massively went to Russia, Poland, USA, Kazakhstan, Israel, Germany, Moldova, Italy, Belarus and Spain in 2011. In 2010 migrants transferred to Ukraine about 5,3 billion. However, people from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan arrived to Ukraine. In general, the tendency is the following: currency is received in Ukraine in 25 times more than left causing to sufficient exchange inflation. In case if the employees take their relatives to the places of their work there will be no necessity to allocate investment support of national economy. Authorities are not interested namely in this.
“100 students studied on course, and more than 30 moved abroad in the search of better life, – it was said by the graduate of one of Lviv universities. – They fled to USA using the program Work & Travel. Others – have been the guests in their relatives already the fourth year, even not gaining the bachelor degree. The visa for students was opened without any problems. Americans think logically – if the person has paid for the studies in the course of three years, so he will not risk. He will return to get the diploma”.
“The government provides the reports about the indexes of the employment of the population exceeding the European ones. The level of unemployment in Ukraine comprises 8%, in European zone is 10,3%. And this employment does not fulfill the main task – a person does not feel himself to be protected, he cannot feed his family on earned money. The majority of people being employed are poor. Thus, negative migration tendencies are observed – Ukrainians do not see any perspectives, they cannot realize their potential. Trade market is open. There is no obstacles for departure, if the employee is highly qualified, educated, knows several foreign languages. Namely these persons move. It is easier to immigrate to USA, Canada and other English-speaking countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Holland, Denmark. There are a lot of acting programs stimulating the inflow of the specialist of definite jobs. Opportunities have appeared to emigrate legally to Poland and Czech Republic. Their youth goes to the West, in particular to Great Britain, thus, these countries have to attract foreign specialists, specifically doctors, – it is said by the manger of the company Job West Anastasiya Belova. A great deal of people call us, who are interested in departure abroad. Emigration is a durable and costly process. You need to collect many documents, make the translations, certify them, plus means for the resettlement. Often people go to work to some country and stay there.  70% of our clients moved to work and return already with the invitations. Then, they get residence permission. Above all things, the residents of the western oblasts leave as well as from the center of Ukraine. The east is not so active”.

In the mean time …

This year, the record number of Ukrainians – 853 thousand will participate in the lottery Green Card. Only the citizens of Nigeria (1,36 million application) and Ghana (854 thousand) wish more to go to America are.

West is ready to accept young, healthy and educated Ukrainians.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/151420