Repatriation of compatriots has been legalized in Russia
The decree of the President of the Russian Federation on promoting the voluntary resettlement of compatriots for the first time in Russian legislation includes the concept of repatriation.
Konstantin Zatulin, First Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on CIS Affairs, announced this to journalists in the Russian State Duma today, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The President of the Russian Federation signed a decree where this concept receives its legal confirmation. Compatriots have the opportunity, without coming to Russia, to contact an embassy or consulate and, without any delay, receive a residence permit in any region of the Russian Federation,” Zatulin said.
He recalled that previously compatriots could not come to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Crimea, and called the resettlement program “an organizational recruitment of labor resources from among Russian-speaking people.” There were quotas, age and profession restrictions for repatriates. Now all this has been cancelled.
“If you are a compatriot and want to return to your homeland, and even in conditions when Russia is at war, when today Russophobia in the West is rolling in like the ninth wave, then you get the opportunity to do this without any bureaucratic obstacles,” Zatulin noted.
He believes that people who belong to Russians and other indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation should be considered compatriots, no matter where they live.
Repatriation of compatriots legalized in Russia