Migrants

The Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation has begun collecting proposals on countering «ethnic ghettos».

The head of the Main Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Valentina Kazakova, said that the department supported the amendment to the bill "On Citizenship", which provides for the deprivation of acquired citizenship in the event of a threat to national security.

Oleg Baranov, head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, noted the importance of countering illegal migration in the capital. According to him, the number of illegal migrants expelled from among foreign citizens and stateless persons doubled in 2022.

The capital's FSB department issued a warning to a visitor from Central Asia who planned to join the ranks of the Ukrainian army. After the detention, the migrant confirmed his plans. He was deported from Russia.

The flow of Georgian citizens seeking asylum in the European Union (EU) doubled in 2022 and reached 28,797 people.

US citizen Alicia Day, who staged a calf-walking rally on Red Square the day before, was expelled from the country and banned from coming to Russia for the next 40 years.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has publicly stated for the second time that there is allegedly not a single political prisoner in the republic.

Wealthy people began to leave the United States en masse, and the influx of millionaires to this country decreased by 80%. Experts called this trend a "wake-up call."

The FSB, in cooperation with Rosgvardiya, detained five people in the case of illegal legalization of migrants using an underground printing house for the production of forged documents. This was reported by the press service of the FSB.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that since the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, as of the end of January, 7110 people were killed, 11,547 residents were injured.