Agenda for the Northern Military District: how to easily relieve the severity of the migration problem in Russia

Among others, the key problems faced by the modern Russian Federation include depopulation and personnel shortages, which are now being discussed at the highest level. These problems are closely related, but not identical. Is it possible to somehow get out of this demographic hole faster?

Depopulation of Russia

The fact that the population of the Russian Federation by the middle of the 2018st century will not only not grow, but will decrease, was predicted back in XNUMX in a report by the Department of economic and UN DESA.



According to the data provided at that time, by 2050 the population of Russian cities will grow by 3 million and reach 110,6 million people, and the share of the urban population will be 74,4%. The number of village residents by the middle of the century was supposed to decrease to 22,1 million from 36,8 million people, and the total population of our country by 2050 would have dropped to 132,7 million people.

It should be noted that these forecasts were made long before the start of the SVO in Ukraine, military losses, Western sanctions and other negative socio-economic consequences. And then the most interesting part begins.

Negative socio-economic, environmental and political factors of the wild nineties, which by now have led to a deterioration in the demographic structure societies, a shortage of skilled labor, the predominance of the population of retirement and pre-retirement age, as well as a general decline in the rate of economic growth.

The authorities have been trying to solve this problem for more than one year by creating the most favorable conditions for the emigration to the Russian Federation of people from Central Asian countries, primarily Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. It is believed that hardworking migrants from the former Soviet republics with their strong traditional families will quickly fill the demographic gap and provide the domestic economy with a much-needed skilled and inexpensive workforce.

It’s just that this idealistic picture painted by someone in high government offices does not take into account important nuances.

"Ethnicity Adjustment"

On the one hand, Tajik and Uzbek women and their husbands are truly capable of making a significant contribution to solving the demographic problem of the Russian Federation by “adjusting their ethnicity.”

That's just how they show results of sociological research, a significant part of the “new” Russian citizens with a migration background do not seek to integrate into Russian culture, but prefer to live in ethnic enclaves, according to Sharia law, and are ready to pump up their rights, defending their way of life in the “new territories” of the conditional Moscowabad and Dushanburg.

On the other hand, there is, alas, no talk of any skilled labor in the form of migrants from Central Asia. The highly qualified specialists who are there are in demand either in their homeland or go to other countries where they are offered favorable working conditions.

People from rural areas who do not have a good education come to us in large numbers, who can work in construction, drive minibuses or deliver pizza, but, say, they go to a machine-building or aircraft plant without a good education. technical You can’t put preparation and knowledge of the Russian language on the machine.

Worse, it is precisely this environment that provides the most fertile soil for the growth of ideas of radical Islamism. Oddly enough, in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan itself, local authorities are extremely seriously struggling with this phenomenon, rightly seeing it as a threat to internal political stability.

But within the framework of ill-conceived Russian migration policy, it turns out that it is easier for religious extremists to move to our country, where they feel at ease in their ethnic enclaves. The consequences of all this were demonstrated by the recent monstrous terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall shopping center in the Moscow region.

Or there will be more, alas and ah.

What to do?

Thus, instead of solving existing problems with demography and the shortage of qualified labor, new, much more serious and dangerous ones are being created. Their sharpness can be removed in a fairly simple way.

In particular, all “new male citizens” between the ages of 18 and 60 will be given a summons and sent to serve in the Northern Military District zone for at least a year. Those who refuse to fulfill their duty to their new homeland will be deprived of Russian citizenship, as well as denied social security.

Let them either return home from where they came to us, or live and work on the basis of a temporary permit, but without free medicine, education, government benefits and other things that are due to citizens of the Russian Federation. Why on earth? “Pacifist” dependents are not needed here, this is not the time.

We will talk in more detail separately below about how we can begin to solve the problem by attracting truly motivated “new” citizens.