UN: Russia should reform immigration practices - by Doughlas Birch UN: Russia should reform immigration practices - by Doughlas Birch
Russia should ease barriers to immigration in order to reduce the impact of labor shortages, slower economic growth and other pressures brought on by its ongoing demographic crisis, a United Nations report said Monday. The report said that Russia should adopt legal and other reforms that insure basic rights and access to services for millions of migrants, many of them from other former Soviet nations, who work in construction and other industries. These workers often face discrimination, exploitation and occasionally even violence. Konstantin Poltoranin, deputy chief of the Federal Migration Service's international and public relations department, told the Interfax news agency Monday that Russia has already taken the necessary steps toward reform
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