Has the crisis in Ukraine damaged Russia's ties with its compatriots abroad? We discussed the current situation with Eugenia Troitskaya, advisor for the Program Implementation Department of the Government Commission on Affairs of Compatriots Abroad at the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States,...
... interest but also of practical significance too.
This kind of information is an important instrument in assessing our compatriots’ potential for return migration. The results of these studies can contribute to the development of relations with compatriots abroad and with their host countries, promoting the accelerated integration of Russia into the Western world. The study of integration models can find a practical application in Russia. Emigration is a kind of social experiment, which is impossible to carry out within the country. It can also show how Russians’ life expectancy ...
... interest but also of practical significance too.
This kind of information is an important instrument in assessing our compatriots’ potential for return migration. The results of these studies can contribute to the development of relations with compatriots abroad and with their host countries, promoting the accelerated integration of Russia into the Western world. The study of integration models can find a practical application in Russia. Emigration is a kind of social experiment, which is impossible to carry out within the country. It can also show how Russians’ life expectancy ...
... statistics insist
that in 1991-2001 Russia received 7.2 million foreigners, while the immigration growth climbed to over 3.4 million. More than 50 percent of immigrants arrived in 1991-1995, with a
ssessments
indicating that in those days Russian and Russian-speaking compatriots constituted from one-third to half of the migration flow.
Russia was trying to handle the situation as best it could. In 1994 and 1997,
federal migration programs
were instituted to help settlers adapt to the Russian society, but to little ...
... On Repatriation to the Russian Federation proposed by the Institute of CIS Countries. This law was proclaimed to be an act of Russia’s national self-assertion. The outline of the document offered the following definition: “Repatriates are Russian compatriots forced to stay beyond the bounds of Russia following the Civil War, Great Patriotic War / World War II / disintegration of the USSR, and also those compatriots whose forebears or they themselves were exiled from Russia and who for reasons ...