DUSHANBE, October 16, 2009, Asia-Plus — Since 2007, some 15,000 people have left Central Asia’s states for Russia under the Russian national program for voluntary resettlement of fellow-countrymen living abroad to Russia, Boris Tretyak, the deputy head of the Committee for CIS Affairs within the Council of Federation (Russia’s upper chamber of parliament), announced at the third regional conference of Russian fellow-countrymen living in Central Asia’s countries in Dushanbe on October 15.
“The Committee jointly with Russia’s Federal Migration Service (FMS) has been working on improvement of the legal foundation ensuring implementation of this program, including solution of problems related to provision of dwelling and social facilities for immigrants and employment of them,” Russian MP said.
According to him, as a result of this work a new national resettlement program has been developed. “The Ministry for Regional Development is currently finalizing this program,” Tretyak noted.
He added that starting from 2012, the national resettlement program would become the indefinite-term one. Not only those who negotiated their working places with employers, but also students studying in the Russian Federation, members of rural communities “that compactly resettle to rural area,” as well as fellow-countrymen intending to run their business in Russia will have the right participate in the program, Tretyak said.
