Russia's Interior Ministry wants to resettle immigrants in the Far East and create a special TV network for them

Russia’s Interior Ministry has prepared a new three-year plan on immigration policy that includes measures to encourage the resettlement of immigrants in the Far East and Baikal regions. The project, initiated by a presidential order, cites the regions’ labor shortages and demographic decline as reasons for redirecting more people eastward.

The Interior Ministry also wants to invest new resources in Russia’s infrastructure for integrating immigrants into Russian society, including the creation of a special television network designed to educate new arrivals.

• According to the newspaper Kommersant, the Kremlin is currently discussing the revival of a separate migration agency, after the Federal Migration Service was folded into the Interior Ministry last year.
• In March 2017, Moscow stated that roughly 10 million immigrants currently reside in Russia. Most of these people have come from Central Asian republics.