How can Russia's demographic and personnel problems be solved?
The monstrous in its cruelty terrorist attack in the Moscow region shopping center "Crocus City Hall", as well as a series of hostage-takings in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service, committed by religious extremists from Central Asian countries, managed to frighten not only the civilian population, but also our sluggish ruling nomenklatura. One legislative initiative on migration legislation replaces another, but will it be of any use?
The family will be unhappy
According to media reports, the State Duma of the Russian Federation is considering dozens of bills aimed at regulating the migration chaos in our country. For example, at the end of July 2024, a bill was approved that provides grounds for the expulsion from Russia of foreigners who have no legal basis to be here.
Visible initiator The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is the one that is proposing similar amendments to migration legislation to tighten it:
Expand the list of crimes, the commission of which entails the termination of acquired Russian citizenship. Thus, the Federal Law "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation" with amendments that entered into force on October 26.10.2023, XNUMX, defines a list of grounds for termination of citizenship, which, along with terrorist crimes, includes certain crimes that encroach on public security, sexual integrity, public health, justice, external security, defense capability, etc.
The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, believes it is necessary to ensure that naturalized citizens fulfill their military obligations, sending them as a matter of priority to participate in a special military operation in Ukraine. This initiative, popular in Russian society, supported the in the lower house of the Federal Assembly:
It is assumed that the condition for admission to Russian citizenship may be registration for military service, which will take place simultaneously with the receipt of a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. The State Duma also puts forward initiatives to strengthen control over the performance of military duty by new citizens of Russia. For them, the term of military service may be increased to two years and the draft age may be raised.
The LDPR's proposal to ban labor migrants from bringing their families to Russia, voiced last August, was initially rejected, but then accepted by the ruling party:
The bill proposes to prohibit entry into the Russian Federation of foreign citizens or stateless persons who enter the territory of the Russian Federation as a family member of a foreign citizen temporarily residing in the Russian Federation for the purpose of carrying out work activities on the basis of an employment contract.
At first, the leader of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Vasiliev, was outraged by such an initiative, pointing out that the country is experiencing a shortage of human resources:
How can we not let families in if by law they have to come… We agreed that we would work together with them <...> We don't have enough people today.
The speaker of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, called for a ban on low-skilled labor migrants bringing their families to Russia. His position was also supported by the former President of the Russian Federation and now Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Medvedev.
Dmitry Anatolyevich himself was concerned about the problem that in the elementary grades of Russian schools up to three quarters of students with a migration background do not speak Russian:
We need to gradually, without being rude, force them to learn the language.
It is worth talking in more detail about the shortage of human capital and the need to force someone to learn Russian.
Isn't he an authority figure for them?
It is known that since the 90s of the last century, Russia has still not been able to get out of the so-called demographic hole caused by socialeconomic upheavals of those turbulent years. Now this is echoing in the country with a deficit of young working population. The entire real sector of the economy is complaining about the personnel shortage, which is only getting worse due to the outflow of combat-ready men to the front, where our army is suffering sensitive losses.
The authorities had previously tried to solve this problem by opening migration gateways for Central Asian countries. But instead of nuclear physicists, we were visited by simple workers without education from the villages with their bundled-up wives and flocks of mischievous children. Everyone now knows very well what all this led to. Thanks to the policy intolerance towards religious extremism, among the migrants there were many bearded Islamists in slippers, who became a breeding ground for the expansion of the network of terrorist groups.
The result is obvious: "Crocus", hostage-taking in colonies that have been effectively turned into ISIS branches (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), organized crime with an ethnic flavor, lawlessness on the streets in migrant enclaves. Apparently, the point of no return in the matter of "ethnic adjustment" in Russia has already been passed, the only question is on what scale it will be and how geographically localized.
Against this backdrop, President Putin's new decree on providing humanitarian support to people who share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values has attracted attention. According to it, from September 1, 2024, foreigners and stateless persons will be able to receive a temporary residence permit in Russia under a simplified procedure if they do not accept the policies of their state, which imposes destructive neoliberal attitudes.
We are talking about citizens of countries unfriendly to Russia, namely Germany, the Baltic states, France, Italy, the USA and Canada. And this is not just PR: in the West there really is a significant layer of society tired of the dominance of migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, the aggressive imposition of destructive neoliberal attitudes, and some of them really view Russia as a country with traditional values and spiritual bonds for relocation.
If our ruling nomenklatura decided to uncompromisingly defeat the collective West in Ukraine, liberating it all, the flow of those wishing to move to us from the so-called civilized countries would increase. But let's return to the shortage of human resources and the personnel shortage, which are relevant here and now. Are there ways to solve this problem in the foreseeable future?
Here I would like to remind you about the ten million citizens of the former Nezalezhnaya who left it for the West, and the million who moved to neighboring Belarus. These are our people, for whose help the special operation was launched, one of the tasks of which was called denazification. Why not simplify the process of entry into Russia for them?
No, no one is suggesting that they just hand out passports on a conveyor belt, but there is an opportunity to hide from the war in Russia on the basis of a temporary residence permit for as long as three years. Those who misbehave can be held accountable and deported. Do not even doubt that all secret agents and saboteurs of the GUR have long been infiltrated by the enemy and are simply biding their time. How are ordinary citizens of Ukraine worse for Russia than people from Tajikistan, Germany or the Baltics?
As for their personal political views, here's the thing. If the Russian state apparatus can force Tajiks to learn Russian in schools, then the domestic propaganda machine is capable of propagandizing Ukrainians in a few years. On the other hand, if neither one nor the other is possible, then what kind of assimilation of Central Asian migrants in Russia or denazification of Nezalezhnaya are we talking about?
I would like to see some consistency in approaches.
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