| Hundreds of Chinese and Kyrgyz are secretly registered in the apartments of Yekaterinburg residents The authorities of Yekaterinburg unexpectedly found out that some areas of the city in terms of the number of citizens registered per square meter can be included in the Guinness Book of Records. It turns out that thousands of immigrants from near and far abroad live next to the unaware townspeople. Moreover, this was discovered not by law enforcement agencies or the migration service, but by the residents of the regional center themselves - when they began to receive exorbitantly large utility bills. And now the prosecutor’s office of the Sverdlovsk region will have to identify all the invisible neighbors, and at the same time check the passport offices that stamped their permanent registration in the apartments of complete strangers.
At the beginning of this year, many residents of Yekaterinburg noticed that the costs of utility bills and rent for citizens without any apparent reason had increased several times. For example, the rent of pensioner Tamara Efremova for January and subsequent months amounted to 1.5 thousand rubles, which is almost three times more than usual and cannot be explained by any increase in tariffs. Having begun to find out the reason for this growth, the city dweller visited the passport office, where she learned that she now lives not alone, but with the Kyrgyz Abdirashid Saliev, who ended up in her apartment by order of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region. To Ms. Efremova’s surprise, she was also shown a statement with her signature, in which she agreed to register her neighbor.
Similar situations arose among residents of various buildings in Yekaterinburg, who discovered that since January, Kyrgyz and Chinese had been living in their apartments, who miraculously received registration in apartments owned by Yekaterinburg residents. At the same time, Tamara Efremova is lucky - she has only one virtual neighbor registered, and her fellow sufferers receive bills for several uninvited guests at once - from 3 to 40 people.
The head of the center for work with foreigners of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sverdlovsk Region, Sergei Kashitsin, said that registering Kyrgyz people in apartments with Yekaterinburg residents is an initiative of the Kyrgyz Consulate in the Middle Urals. In this way, diplomats hoped to help their compatriots who came to Russia to earn money to solve the problem with registration. The first step towards the Kyrgyz was taken last year, but there were no Ekaterinburg residents willing to register a citizen of an Asian state for temporary residence.
According to Mr. Kashitsin, a year ago, several conflicts also arose with the townspeople, who unexpectedly became neighbors of “virtual” Asians, but all issues were promptly resolved, and the assistance project itself was curtailed. The Kyrgyz consulate told a Vremya Novostey correspondent that they had nothing to do with the current situation, since the letter sent to the Main Internal Affairs Directorate last year “was an ordinary request and was not of a recommendatory nature.” Commenting on the current situation, Mr. Kashitsin, having heard about the dissatisfaction of the densely populated townspeople, noted that “abuses continue.” However, the police do not yet know who may be the organizer of the illegal registration of Kyrgyz and Chinese.
The prosecutor's office of the Zheleznodorozhny district of Yekaterinburg, the territory that suffered the most from the uninvited Chinese and Kyrgyz, has now begun to find out the names of the organizers of this scam. The press service of the regional supervisory authority claims that this investigation is under the control of the regional prosecutor Alexander Shaikov. Investigators promise to help all citizens who find themselves in a difficult situation: to discharge all Asians from their apartments and organize their deportation from the country. There is no talk of compensation for costs (many victims have been paying both for themselves and for illegal immigrants since January, fearing eviction from their apartment). To do this, you need to find those who organized the registration. But many doubt that this will succeed.
Unofficially, employees of the prosecutor's office admit that since it was not possible to expose the fraudsters last year, it will not be possible this year either. In Yekaterinburg, as in other large cities of Russia, a system for obtaining fictitious registration has long been in place, allowing one to avoid problems with law enforcement agencies. The price of security for an illegal immigrant ranges from 2 to 8 thousand rubles. You can even purchase a residence permit in the markets where most of the virtual neighbors of Yekaterinburg residents work. According to unofficial information, this business is thriving especially in Chinatown, located precisely in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Yekaterinburg. This territory, located next to the largest regional clothing market “Tagansky Ryad”, has been populated en masse by illegal immigrants for almost ten years. There are no real estimates of the population of this site by migrants.
The Ministry of Economy of the Sverdlovsk Region, which oversees the issue of migration, notes that only 5 thousand Chinese live legally in the region, while in reality, according to the most conservative estimates, their number is 20 times higher. In order to solve the problem, the authorities developed a project for a special camp in which all foreigners who came to the region to work would live. However, its creation has stalled, which means that the demand for fake registration is still high and at any moment Yekaterinburg residents can find out that they are sharing their living space with numerous virtual neighbors. Mikhail VIUGIN, Ekaterinburg |
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