Putin Promises to Facilitate Russian Citizenship Receiving

The new edition of the document will facilitate Russian citizenship receiving, said the President of the Russian Federation. According to him, Russia is ready to give asylum to compatriots who are “unlawfully persecuted” abroad. The new edition of the document will facilitate Russian citizenship receiving, said the President of the Russian Federation on October, 31 during World Congress of Compatriots Living Abroad. The text of the document was published on the Kremlin website. Russia is ready to “provide protection and shelter” to compatriots living abroad, who are “unlawfully persecuted”, Putin added. According to him, over 12 years of the program of voluntary resettlement of compatriots about 800 thousand people have moved to the Russian Federation. At the same time, the Russian Federation must remain open for those foreigners who “do not associate their future and the future of their children with it and do not intend to fully integrate into Russian society”, the document states. There are about 10 million foreigners in Russia annually, and the average annual number of labor migrants is about 3 million, the concept creators say. Source: DW