Tatarstan President takes part in All-Russia meeting on rendering aid to Ukrainian refugees

On July 22, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov took part in All-Russia video conference meeting held by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on providing accommodation ans social conditions to people, who have been forced to leave Ukraine.

Opening the meeting, Dmitry Medvedev said that around 144,000 refugees from Ukraine turned to Russia’s Federal Migration Service for a status that does not include a work permit.

The Prime Minister thanked everybody helping refugees from the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine through hard times, from ordinary citizens to ministers.

Medvedev said that currently about 400 stationary points of temporary accommodation have been arranged in Russia, providing housing for 26,000 people, including 10,000 children.

The Russian government has already made budget transfers to several regions in the country for accommodation of Ukrainian refugees at temporary centers. In particular, 240 million roubles have been allocated to accommodate refugees at temporary centers in Rostov region.

By and large, Russia’s government has provided 4.94 billion roubles to solve Ukrainian refugee problems, Medvedev said.

The term to apply for refugee status in Russia has been reduced to three days, Dmitry Medvedev said. Russia’s government has also adopted a resolution to increase the quotas for the Russian regions for issuing residence permits to foreign citizens by 53.5 per cent.

Head of Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky reported in detail about the situation with refugees from the South-Eastern Ukraine, saying that the service he headed expected the number of refugees to grow to 100 thousand.