Tag: migrant laborers

Massive Exodus of Migrant Workers from Russia Begins

December 22, 2014

Staunton, December 20 – The collapse of the ruble and the test of Russian language knowledge they will soon be required to take are prompting labor migrants in the Russian Federation to leave in massive numbers, with the leader of the Federation of Migrants now predicting that more than a quarter of them will depart […]

After Crimea, ‘One Spark’ Could Engulf Russia in Pogroms, Moscow Observers Say

May 18, 2014

Staunton, May 17 Even though the issue of relations between Russians and migrant workers has largely disappeared from the Moscow media because of the Ukrainian crisis, it has not gone away and indeed may be more explosive than it was precisely because of the kind of violence that has taken place in eastern Ukraine. In […]