07-08-2013

Problem migrants will go to Ukraine, those of which Russia wants to get rid of, – Tatiana Ivzhenko writes in Russian “Independent Newspaper”.

In the near future, Russia will cardinally change the rules on attraction to employment of the migrants. It is said, on one hand, about simplification of the procedure on receiving legal work, and on the other hand about thigh measures concerning the illegal migrants. It is prognosticated in Kyiv that it will substantially increase the flow of Ukrainian migration to Russia, but the main thing it will influence upon the quality of labour power. Good specialist will to go work to neighboring country instead of unqualified workers. Ukraine has not yet thought of the way how to hold the outflow of the personnel.

The changes in migration policy were announced by the deputy assistant director of Department on Work Organization with foreign citizens of Federal Migration Service of RF Dmitriy Demidenko. “We plan to revise seriously and modernize the existed order of quota issue in order to attract foreign labour power. Employees having a definite vacancy set reports it to Municipal Employment Body, which in the course of two months looks for Russian workers for these working places. If they do not manage to select job applicants out of the number of Russians, so the Employment Body gives the employee opinion letter about reasonability to attract foreign workers. The company can hire migrants with this document” – he said in the interview to “Russian newspaper”.

The official marked that the former mechanism of quota system did not justify expectations, as it could not hold the process of illegal migration: “Introducing quota we restrict the inflow of legal foreign workers. However, illegal flow goes beyond the quotas.”

On one hand, it is said about simplification of the procedures on receiving legal work, and on the other hand – about severe measures as to illegal migrants.

Simplifying bureaucratic procedure, FMS hopes to attract qualified foreigners to work, who are interested in legalization of their status on the territory of RF as well as to get Russian citizenship since.

There are other developing measures aimed at achieving the same goal – in particular, introduction of the system of obligatory medical insurance for all migrants. In the end of July, informational agencies have reported that  Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Labour of Russian Federation endorse the bill proposing that foreign worker was obliged to present policy of voluntary insurance to employee. Otherwise, the employee would be obliged to pay himself for the treatment of the foreigner worker.

The chief of FMS Konstyantyn Romodanovskyi in the course of the meeting with the representatives of business explained: “It will not, certainly, happen tomorrow. We will have to work out too many details before the idea gets real contours”. But he specifies that the problem will have been solved anyway as Russia cannot provide all migrants with free medical services, 75% of which arrived from CIS countries. About 5 billion rubles are spent yearly for treatment of migrant labors from the budget of Moscow. However, the experts suppose that obligatory medical insurance promises to employees and hired workers, but they can be compensated by the simplification of the procedure of employment.

Simultaneously, the measures concerning illegal migrants will become tougher: the fines will be increased, a reentering the territory of Russian Federation will be banned. “Since the beginning of the year 2013 we closed the entrance to more than 145 thousand migrants and we are going to continue this job. Our informational resources show that the group at risk (migrants who exceed the term of legal stay and does not register their labour status for further stay on the territory of the country) goes beyond 3 million persons. In perspective, entrance to Russia should be closed for all these people”- Dmitriy Demidenko reported.

The reform will concern the citizens of Ukraine, which according to Russian official data is on the third place after Uzbekistan and Tajikistan as to the number of migrants in RF. The real situation can differ much as statistics is based on legal employment by which only 300 thousand Ukrainians can boast of. By suppositions of Ukrainian analytics, millions Ukrainian migrants can be in Russia, the majority of which have been interested in legalization of their status, but being unable to do it because of bureaucratic obstacles.

“Since the times of USSR, Russia still stays the main direction of labour migration from Ukraine. The borders are transparent, there are no visas, one can enter with national passport. Ukrainians easily assimilate, dissolve in Russian society owing to absence of language barriers as well as cultural and religious community” – it was said by “IN” economist of Kyiv Centre of Political Investigations and conflictology, Aleksandr Koshyk. He explains that there is too much of working force in many regions of Ukraine in the number of interior economic reasons: “Qualified specialists and good workers are always in need in Russia, whatever political statements are sounded. And, certainly, it is comfortable to have a deal with Ukrainian migrants.

Doctor of Economic Sciences, professor Pavel Gaidutskyi in the article for the newspaper “Mirrors of the week” marked that according to Ukrainian Centre of Social Investigations and Institute of Ethnology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the number of Ukrainian labour migrants reaches 4,5-5 million persons. “According to unofficial data, the majority of Ukrainians work in Russia, however as to official one – contrariwise, more of them are in EU, though in three times more. There are much more of those who wish to go to EU to work – 63%. Thus, Ukrainians see more legal labour market in European Union,”- Gaidutskyi stressed.

However, crisis in European zone influences upon the situation. In case Russia simplifies bureaucratic procedures and liberalizes the conditions on attracting qualified labour force, so much more Ukrainians will go to neighboring country. Those, hoping to be legalized easily and being feared with humiliating deportation, preferred European direction.

This opinion was proved recently by the chief of the capital department of FMS Olga Kirilova. She marks that the majority of illegal migrants arrive to Moscow from the countries of Middle Asia, and the number of Ukrainians as well as Byelorussians becomes less and less. “Nowadays, the most problematic are the representatives of Middle-Asian region. If speaking of qualitative predominance so these are migrants from Uzbekistan, then Kirgizia and Tajikistan. Concerning representatives of Ukraine and Belarus – those who we wish to see more because they are not such visible among the local population, – so their inflow, unfortunately, has a tendency to decrease and not to grow up”.

Now, the situation can change. But it promises problems for Ukraine, it is marked by the experts. Aleksandr Koshik tells to IN that demography has reached the crisis point in the country and the place of departed are usually occupied by those problem migrants from which Russia intends to get rid of. Before, Ukraine has been transit government for the migrants from unfavorable regions of the world. Now, they settle on our territory. Moreover, often they do not apprehend cultural traditions, Christianity; they do not learn the language. It can be said about millions of people. It means that in the nearest future Ukraine can face with a very serious problem”.

Source: http://korrespondent.net/worldabus/1589383-ng-moskva-spihnet-kievu-svoih-nelegalov

06-08-2013

In Perechyn district unknown woman called to police station and gave away illegal migrants from Afghanistan. She told that she saw six persons that looked like illegal migrants at the bank of the river Uzh not far from the village of Zarichevo, Perechyn ditrict. Soon, law enforcement agents really found six men nearby the mentioned place, who were the citizens of Afghanistan – young couple with a daughter and mother with two children. Illegal migrants were sent to department of BS “Velykyi Bereznyi” of Chop Border Detachment.

Source:  http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/139216

06-08-2013

The other day, border guards of Chop Detachment detained the next “travellers” that made their way illegal way to the countries of European Union.  Border detail of BS “Guta” carrying out the patrolling of the area early in the morning detected some unfamiliar persons moving towards the border. One more detail and operative group with service dog started to capture the foreigners. The trespassers having less than 1,5 km to reach Ukrainian-Slovakian border were apprehended. There were four tourists: one woman and three men. Detainees did not have any documents and reported to the border guards that they were the citizens of China.

Source:http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/139214

06-08-2013

Ghetto

Central Mass Media writes about migration problems in Russia. In particular, opening of deportation camp in Moscow and intentions of the government to increase the number of departments that would have right to control the flow of migrants to Russia became the reason for the leading article at “Independent newspaper”.

According to data of newspaper, regulation on this point will be adopted in September. To give “non-permission” on this point – namely such bureaucratic term is used in this paper – is allowed to use by 11 federal ministers and services. Number one is MOI, then Federal Security Service, and Ministry of Protection, Russian Financial Monitoring and Foreign Intelligence Service, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Federal Migration Service and Federal Service of Russian Federation on Control for Drug Traffic. Russian Consumer Inspectorate and Federal Medical and Biological Agency complete this list.

All departments having right to make decision on deportation now will be coordinated by FSS. Thus, resent order of Vladimir Putin should be implemented promptly, after the scandal on beating police officer at the capital market, law enforcement agencies started to control strictly commercialization”, – regards “Independent Newspaper” (“IN”).

By the way, as “IN”marks, lately FMS has begun to gush with various legislative initiatives. However, not all of them were accepted by the society adequately.

After urgently opened deportation camp in Gol’yanovo, Moscow, Mass Media presented information that FMS is going to open the same camps along the whole Russia. The press service assured the newspaper that it was not right. It is said about stationary holding centers for foreigners that would be deported.

The Embassy of Vietnam, whose citizens are mainly kept at Gol’yanovo, has already criticized Russian authorities naming the conditions in which detainee stay to be inhuman. Also, the members of the President Council on Human Rights intend to give negative evaluation of the present situation at “ethnic camp”, as it was characterized in the blog sphere, on Wednesday, August 7.

The members of PCHR together with Social Supervising Commission and ombudsman Vladimir Lukin will demand immediate correction in the work of the camp, – it is said on the pages of “IN”, by the chairman of Moscow SSC Valeriy Bortchev.

“Holding of foreigners at special premises always has been hideous. However, the present case implies to have outright racism, – the human rights activist convinced. – The thing is not in organization of the camp, as a matter of principle it comes out that in relation to separate ethnos one can forget about human rights”.

The head of Moscow Helsinki Group Ludmyla Alekseeva underlines in the interview with “IN” that special premises for illegal migrants exist in many countries, however in Russia placement of detained illegal migrants there became as public campaign.

Newspaper “Vedomosti” writes in editorial comments on this subject that creation of the camp for some hundreds and even thousands persons reminds of attempt to take out the sea with the spoon.

“In general, – the newspaper regards, – it is a story about artificial creation of the problem and its skilful use by the politicians and governmental structures. The government creates a problem rejecting to make political solution on migration issue. Then, politicians gain scores rousing xenophobia in the society. Now, the law enforcement agents also gained opportunity to increase their part in this profitable project”.

Source: http://korrespondent.net/world/russia/1588940-pressa-rossii-lager-migrantov-kak-piar-vlastej

06-08- 2013

Border guards of Chop Detachment and inspectors of State Motor Vehicle Inspectorate detected a group of unknown persons nearby the border while carrying out joint control and regimen activities. Detainees could not present documents identifying their personality on border guards’ demand, but they reported that they were the citizens of Afghanistan. There was a man, two women and three children in the group – the boy of 2007 DOB and two girls of 2009 and 2012. In the course of the interview, it was learned that they made their way to EU countries in the search of better life conditions. They also told that they paid $50000 for their trip.

Besides, border guards of BS “Uzhgorod” apprehended two more illegal migrants at night. One of the violators making his way to Slovakia was stopped after alarm system went off in the area of BS “Onokivtsi”. The men informed that he was the citizen of Syria. The citizen of Georgia became the other “guest” of the border guards, who intended to cross the border without documents avoiding the check point.

All detainees were delivered to border subdivisions to process administrative and procedural documents. Decision on responsibility before the law and their future destiny will be defined by the court.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_2120.htm

06-08-2013

Border guards of Odessa Detachment apprehended a passenger arrived from Turkey in the international airport “Odessa”. For passing control the man gave the passport of the citizen of Lithuania, however the border guards detected that page with constituent data of the owner was changed in the document. Finally, the very passenger reported that he was 40-year-old citizen of Turkey. He also told that he effected a fake marriage with the woman from Lithuania, who helped him in receiving forged document for € 30 thousand. He bough this document for free movement along the countries of European Union.

One more citizen of the same country arrived from Istanbul was detained in the airport “Simferopol”. Border guards established that the passport of the citizen of Slovakia he presented for control was completely forged. Apropos, his personality was confirmed by the presence of valid passport for travelling abroad of the citizen of Turkey, which he had with himself. The forged documents were confiscated and pseudo-travellers were returned by return flight to the countries of departure.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_2117.htm

05-08-2013

The number of migrants delivered to the camp in the east of Moscow reached 612 persons and on Monday the number can be increased, it is informed by the service capital central authority of MIO. At the same time, Federal Migration Service solves the problem on creation of the network of special establishments for imprisonment of illegal migrants along the whole country. 

Press service of FMS of BBC Russian Service has declared that information about creation of 83 camps published by the newspaper “Komersant” does not quite correspond to reality, however this question is really under discussion. The representatives of the department still reject to give any detailed explanations.

Camp “prison” town was constructed on August 2, the next day after the capital police detected several underground sewing workshops, where about 1,5 thousand migrant laborers worked, namely the citizens of Vietnam.

The camp is intended for 900 persons, there are field kitchens and toilet cabins on its territory as well as equipping for fingerprint analysis. As FMS reports, migrants will start to leave gradually leave after court decisions on deportation.

Complaints on buckwheat

Embassy of Vietnam in Russia has already expressed concern as to the conditions of forced holding of migrants in the camp. “There are 40 persons in the room of 50 m² there. These are not very good conditions”, – representative of the embassy reported to BBC.

Vladimir Lukin, ombudsman in Russia, visiting the camp also was dissatisfied by the area allotted per person and position of toilets. The head of the fund “Civil Assistance” Svetlana Gannushkina marked in the conversation with “Komersant” that the camp had not any legal status yet that would allow to hold migrants there during temporary isolation.

The members of President Council on human rights visiting the camp together with Lukin, also were unsatisfied with the holding conditions of the migrants and intend to visit it again on Monday.

The very detainees expressed their dissatisfaction as to meals given them at the field kitchens. According to the words of deputy chairman of Social Council of Capital Central Authority of MOI Anton Tsvetkov, Vietnamese asked to change buckwheat to more habitual for them rice.

Besides, as it is reported by the newspaper “Komsomolska Pravda”, the residents of the camp complain on absence of sockets as they have no place to charge their mobile phones as well as it forbidden to smoke on the territory of the camp.

Slave work of Vietnamese

Vietnamese migrants told to journalists arrived to the camp that they had to work in the workshops for 14 hours a day without days off and for all that they did not get any salary, however they were proposed to pay $ 300-400 per month.

In the course of Police and FMS checks, the workers of the workshops had to hide because their chiefs bribed inspectors and then those went without any claims.

On Monday, the press service of MOI informed about the detection of the group of Vietnamese in Moscow area, which was engaged in organization of illegal migration of their country fellows to Russia.  According department’s information, the members of the grouping organized illegal workshop on clothes sewing in the premise of livestock complex in Lenin region, Moscow oblast.

Supposedly, they took away passports of the workers and then forced them to work under a strict ban to leave the territory of the workshop. Police apprehended 52 citizens of Vietnam without documents as well as supposed organizers of illegal migration.

About a year ago, BBC reported about analogous situation with Vietnamese workers at one of the sewing factories in Moscow area. The workers of the factory “Vinashtar”, the owners of which were also from Vietnam, complained that they were forced to work for 18 hours per day, seven days a week. They also made complaints on bad meals, regular beatings and ban on leaving the territory of the factory.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/russia/2013/08/130805_migrants_camp_moscow.shtml

04-08-2013

CzechRepublic as a single country of “new Europe” that attracts interest of immigrants. According to data of European Statistic Bureau, about 423 foreigners have arrived to Czech Republic that now comprise 4% of Czech population. Eviction of own population is significant for other countries of “new Europe” (i.e. new members of European Union) as well as rather small interest of the migrants to these countries.

Scale emigration was fixed to Romania, Lithuania or Poland. However, CzechRepublic provokes interest of EU residents and those of so-called third countries. CzechRepublic is chosen as the country for permanent residence by 151 Europeans, the majority of which are Slovakians, Germans and Austrians. In reality, this number s much more bigger as Europeans are not obliged to be registered. 272 000 persons from “third countries” visited CzechRepublic. Czech authority lately breaks the growth in the number of migrants from “third countries” by its severe approach to opening of new long-termed visas.

CzechRepublic is in the top five of the best countries in European Union as to the level of unemployment. Nowadays, the level of unemployment comprises 7,3%. In European comparison, CzechRepublic gets into the top five of the countries with the lowest indexes of unemployment. The least number of the men out of occupation are in the countries as Austria, Germany, Luxembourg and Malta. The average European index comprises 10,9%. The things are worse in Greece and Spain. In general, however, the economic result of CzechRepublic is not so brilliant, GDP of the country falls and the country is in slow recession.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/139123

01-08-2013

The violators moving in the direction of the state border were caught up by the border guards of BS “Guta” of Chop Detachment in the evening. Four unknown persons were noticed at the border by district inspector. The service dog helped the border detail to find the tracks of the trespassers. The men reported that they were the citizens of Georgia.

Almost two hours later border guards detained two more travellers from Georgia in the same direction. Observant local resident informed about the appearance of the strangers in border area.

One more violator trying to cross the border with violations was detected by the border guards of the same detachment at railway check point “Chop”. The passenger of the train “Moscow-Budapest” gave for the control the passport of the citizen of France. Law enforcement agents established that the document was valid but it did not belong to the bearer. Also, the passport document contained forged marks about the cross of the state border of Ukraine. Now, the checking measures are undertaken as to the detainees.

Source: http://dpsu.gov.ua/ua/about/news/news_2080.htm

31-07-2013

The border guards of SBSU in Transcarpathia apprehended illegal migrants. The travellers were stopped in the area of BS “Stuzhytsya” of Chop Detachment. The trespassers almost reaching the border had no any documents. As it was established soon, two of them were the citizens of Eritrea, two more – citizens of Sudan and Cote d’Ivoire. Also in the course of infringement circumstances ascertainment, border guards learned that the citizen of Cote d’Ivoire and one of Eritreans had already been detained for the attempt to get to the countries of European Union, and the first of them was caught twice – in March and July. Each of illegal migrants paid about $4000 for their trip. However, persons assisting them, did not keep their promises to deliver the travellers to Slovakia.

According to the words of the detainees, they were 16 to 29 years old, they were dropped off somewhere in the suburb of the road and ordered to wait. But, nobody came in some hours and they decided to move further themselves. They were wandering rather long period and border guards apprehended them near the border.

Some migrants were detained by the border guards of Chop Detachment – they were stopped in the area of BS “Knyagynya” at night 500 meters before the border line. They were the citizens of Syria without any documents.

Source: http://www.ua-reporter.com/novosti/138910