What is more important to an official - legality or ethnicity?
On June 7, 2005, "Parliamentskaya Gazeta" published an article by Yury Alpatov, Prefect of the Western Administrative District of Moscow, devoted to the problems of migration. Intentionally or not, the author mixes up in his article the problems of three, certainly intersecting, but not identical groups: foreigners, migrants of different ethnicity and visitors from the regions of Russia. Once again, the myth of illegal foreigners who take jobs from Muscovites is voiced. Y.