Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev believes that ethnic enclaves in the country need additional government control. Otherwise, they become hotbeds of crime, Medvedev said during a meeting on additional measures to integration and adaptation of migrants in Russian society.
According to Medvedev, this is a global problem, and in Russia it also exists in full.
Medvedev believes that preventive work with diaspora leaders will help reduce the degree of tension in relations between local residents and migrants.
“Literally an insignificant reason is enough for an outburst of irritation. Clashes occur every day,” Medvedev said.
As the deputy chairman of the Security Council said, these “small states in the state” ignore the laws of Russia.
At the same time, Medvedev continued, municipal administrations have no information about migration flows on their territory. Medvedev has criticized those local authorities that are reluctant to do this task. According to Medvedev, the problem is that the municipalities do not work with the leaders of the diasporas and do not know about the moods inside the enclaves. Responsibility is shifted by local authorities to law enforcement agencies or federal structures.
“And the regional authorities, unfortunately, in this sense, too, are not a role model, at least in a number of regions,” said the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.
Medvedev is sure that it is necessary to solve the problems of poor command of the Russian language among the majority of adult migrants. People who speak Russian fluently should come to Russia to live and work.
“This is one of the reasons why foreign communities live in isolation and isolation,” Medvedev said.
According to Medvedev, the obligatory exam in the Russian language, history and laws of the Russian Federation should act as a filter that will allow those who “are ready to perceive our culture, traditions, who would really like to live and work here” to enter Russia.
Medvedev invited the participants of the meeting to make proposals for adjusting the system for organizing exams.
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, Dmitry Medvedev considers mandatory medical examination of foreigners entering Russia for a long time.
“It is important that they are not a source of infectious and socially dangerous diseases,” Medvedev said.
In addition, Medvedev continued, the approach to different categories of migrants should be flexible and differentiated.
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council further said that on February 10, an interdepartmental commission of the Security Council was created to improve the state migration policy. Who will take positions in it will be announced in the near future, writes Interfax.
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