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The long-awaited “Strategy for the Socio-Economic Development of the North Caucasus Federal District until 2025” has been published, about which reports have previously circulated that it supposedly talks about the relocation of the unemployed from the North Caucasus to other areas. Plenipotentiary Representative in the North Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin then denied these reports, saying that the strategy was about helping those wishing to move to work under a contract in other regions.

According to the text of the Strategy, the government proposes to establish a Labor Migration Agency to employ unemployed residents of the North Caucasus, which will “help negotiate with employers, attract the population, organize the relocation and accommodation of workers, and also monitor compliance with workers’ rights.”

In addition, the Strategy demonstrates the desire of the authorities to return Russians to the North Caucasus: “an important task is to attract the Russian population from other regions of the Russian Federation and the Russian-speaking population from member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States for permanent residence in the territory of the North Caucasus Federal District, first of all highly qualified specialists." This requires “socio-economic development of places of compact residence of the Russian population, including the implementation of investment projects, as well as the creation of an infrastructure of Russian culture in the North Caucasus Federal District (construction of cultural centers, support for creative groups, libraries of Russian literature, historical and local history museums, etc. .d.); comprehensive social support for the return and prevention of outflow of the Russian population (including housing, travel compensation and employment); creating social preferences for the Russian population, including in the field of education and science, allocating quotas for local Russian youth in budget-funded departments of republican universities, providing opportunities for state and municipal service, especially in places where they live densely.”