Immigration to Russia

Immigration to Russia is an entry process of foreign citizens for permanent residence in the territory of the Russian Federation. Under current law, after five years of residence, after the examination of the knowledge of the Russian language, immigrants can also obtain Russian citizenship. The immigration to Russia is regulated by the Main Directorate for Migration Affairs.[1] The immigration plays an important role in modern Russian demographic processes, since it is the cause of the increase of the population from 2011.[2]

Russia maintains one of the world's most liberal immigration policies; anyone who works in Russia for five years and develops fluency in the Russian language can become a citizen, provided he or she has not committed a crime, and almost anyone who is hired by a Russian firm can stay in the country and work indefinitely [3] This reflects a policy change on the part of the Putin government, in response to declining birth rates, from the more restrictive policy enacted after the fall of the Soviet Union.[4] The large non-Slavic immigrant populations arriving in response to Putin's liberal policy have sometimes been met with xenophobia; to counter this, the Russian state has shut down various anti-immigrant group pursuant to Russian hate speech laws, such as the Movement Against Illegal Immigration.

Immigrant population in Russia by country of birth

Citizenship of immigrants:[5]

1 Ukraine2,651,109
2 Uzbekistan2,335,960
3 Tajikistan1,105,500
4 Azerbaijan610,327
5 Moldova586,122
6 Kazakhstan575,400
7 Kyrgyzstan552,014
8 Armenia514,663
9 Belarus498,878
10 China273,034
11 Germany244,662
12 Afghanistan150,000
13 United States of America142,405
14 Turkey111,681
15 United Kingdom111,275
16 Finland77,665
17 Vietnam53,649
18 Italy53,649
19 France53,382
20 Spain45,935
21 Lithuania42,672
22Without citizenship35,489
23 Philippines34,755
24 North Korea34,217
25 Serbia33,591
26 Canada32,107
27 Georgia30,718
28 Israel30,126
29 Estonia28,356
30 Poland27,979
31 India15,500

See also

References

  1. ↑ "На просторах России". Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Demographics". Retrieved 15 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Malakhov, Vladimir S. (9 August 2014). "Russia as a New Immigration Country: Policy Response and Public Debate" (PDF). Europe-Asia Studies. 66 (7): 1062–1079. doi:10.1080/09668136.2014.934140. ISSN 0966-8136. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "ФМС России". Retrieved 15 February 2016.
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