The project is not envious

The visa regime will only repel partners in the CIS, and not bring it closer, President Vladimir Putin said at a press conference following the APEC summit. “We need to do this process more civilized, establish work on this track so that it does not irritate the indigenous population, but cause a positive reaction,” Putin said.

The president again emphasized that Russia needs a tributary of workers. "Our labor market needs to fill out those jobs that are not filled with local citizens, so we carefully need to look at this labor market, more professionally resolve the issue of which migrants are allowed to be," Putin said.

The president also emphasized that migrants should understand the need for knowledge of the Russian language and culture and respect for Russian laws and traditions. "Law enforcement agencies must react accordingly, and here it is very important to control by the company of law enforcement agencies in terms of suppressing all corruption manifestations," Putin said.

Putin also added that neither migrants nor local residents in any case will forcefully move to the northern regions of Siberia, where a significant outflow of the population is observed. “There you need to create favorable social and economic conditions,” said Putin. “This will be the main condition for the success of the development of these territories.”

On October 3, Putin at a meeting with United Russia proposed determining the activities for labor migrants . He added that from the point of view of the country's economic interests in some industries, it is really difficult to do without labor from the outside, but "in some areas it is quite possible to replace this with local citizens." As an example, the head of state cited the sphere of trade.

On the same day, State Duma deputy member of the Central Staff of the ONF Mikhail Starshinov proposed introducing visas for labor migrants. “Today they often offer to introduce various restrictions for labor migrants who are already in the Russian Federation, but this is only attempts to combat the consequences. And the reason for the current situation is that we don’t understand who these people, who are 10 million migrants who came to Russia only in the first half of 2013. Therefore, we must stop the uncontrolled flow of foreigners into our country,” he said.

“What the head of state calls for is the measures of state protectionism. I believe that they have long been related to. Labor vacancies should first get to our citizens, and then to everyone else,” Starshinov said.