RussianMind #6 (22) 06- 19 April

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for attracting and recruiting qualified workers”.

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To attract enough qualified foreign teachers to Russia the experts want the government to spend another 2.5 billion roubles ($85.8 million). Another one billion roubles ($34.2 million) is to be spent as grants for Russian citizens receiving a professional education abroad in order to lure them back to the country. And on top of that, the experts said about 200 million roubles ($6.8 million) would be needed to promote Russia's image as "a country attractive to highly skilled migrants".

motivate entrepreneurs and investors to move to Russia, including luring them with temporary and full-time residence permits as well as making it easier for them to obtain Russian citizenship. The experts see the absence of a well-

defined mechanism for determining the country’s skilled-labour requirement as one of the drawbacks of previous immigration policies. To address such problems, including eliminating the horse-and-buggy quota system, experts said the government should spend 270 million

roubles ($9.2 million) to “dramatically revise the old policy” by introducing new mechanisms for assessing skilled workers. In addition, the policymakers suggested the government allocate 200 million roubles ($6.8 million) to registered private businesses to help them “provide services 9

Another set of moneygobbling proposals concern encouraging internal labour migration in Russia, which they said would cost the government up to seven billion roubles ($239.8 million). The lion’s share of that amount will be spent to relocate people who live in more severe climatic conditions to other areas of the country, the experts said. A good part of the money will also be spent on supporting entrepreneurs who create housing and social infrastructure for internal labour migrants. The experts also recommend that the government spend ten billion roubles ($342.6 million) to resettle compatriots living abroad. Supported by russiaprofile.org


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