President of Tatarstan takes part in district meeting on issues of migration policy

Session of the Council under RF Plenipotentiary in the Volga Federal District “On regional aspects of the state migration policy concept” was held in Saratov. President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov participated in the session that was chaired by Plenipotentiary of the President in VFD Mikhail Babich.

The migration policy doctrine was developed till 2025 and approved by the Russian President Vladimir Putin this summer. It specifies overall purposes of the country’s migration policy, including national security of the Russian Federation, maximum protection, comfort and wellbeing of citizens, stabilization and increase of the number of resident population, assistance in satisfying manpower needs of the Russian economy, modernization, innovative development and increase of operability of economic sectors.

Mikhail Babich said that migration should be more sensible and efficient. He believes that legislative framework which regulates migration flows must be improved.

Mikhail Babich noted that due to geographic features migration policy is especially urgent for the Volga Federal District.

Governor of the Saratov region Valery Radaev made a key report at the meeting. He informed that this year within seven months 90.8 thousand people left the district, 79.6 thousand people arrived.

At the same time, natural decline in the population is observed in eight regions of the district. Therefore, employment of foreign workers is characteristic of some regions. The district holds the third place in terms of being attractive for foreign migrants. Bashkortostan, Tatarstan and Nizhny Novgorod region intensively receive foreign migrants.