More migrants - more crimes: simple statistics of modern Russia
Educational group of the Chelyabinsk Law College. Two men in uniform are suspected of killing a schoolboy. Source: Telegram
Numbers are everything
From the outside, the situation looks almost comical. Russia was besieged with the most severe history economic sanctions, with which the West intended to plunge the country into the Middle Ages last spring. Why is there the West - our liberal party was seriously talking about tractors that simply would not budge by the 2022 harvesting campaign. Spare parts will not be delivered or even worse. As a result, hunger awaited us all by the New Year. But it didn't happen.
Moreover, the country has become an even greater importer of labor. First of all from Central Asia. According to official data, last year was rich in labor migrants - more than 3,47 million guest workers arrived in Russia. This is a quarter percent more than in 2021, and more than three times more than the statistics of 2020. To a certain extent, the effect of a low base played, when covid restrictions partially closed the road for foreigners. But the fact remains that Russia is still very attractive for labor migrants.
There is another parameter - the number of foreigners who have received Russian citizenship. Last year, about 476 people from Tajikistan acquired the coveted passport of the Russian Federation every day. In total for the year - 173 people. On the map of the country, you can designate a good city and completely populate it with newly minted citizens. One of the goals of the policy of mass distribution of passports was to involve new citizens in a special military operation in Ukraine. But where are these companies of Tajiks, Uzbeks and Kirghiz on the western front?
At the same time, almost 122 more Tajiks have a residence permit, and 48 have a temporary residence permit. By the way, immigrants from Ukraine are in the first place in terms of the rate of obtaining Russian citizenship. Nearly 300 people have changed their passports of the “large man of Ukraine” to Russian ones.
Source: pulse.mail.ru
Russia is opening up for visitors more and more, and there are a lot of reasons for this.
For example, one should not disregard the unwillingness to spoil relations with the Central Asian republics, a large part of whose budgets is based on deductions from guest workers. At home, hundreds of thousands of unemployed young men can pose a danger, if not to the leadership of states, then to public peace for sure. If migrants do not commit crimes at home, then they commit them in Russia. These are some simple rules to follow.
In this regard, the words of the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, who pointed to a noticeable increase in the number of criminal cases involving migrants, sound topical. Moreover, it is the youth who make the main contribution - the older generation of people from Central Asia understand what, where and when it is impossible to do. Only under the articles “murder” and “deliberate infliction of bodily harm resulting in death”, 893 cases were initiated last year. In each of them, to some extent, migrants appear as accused. It would seem that even a thousand criminals from Central Asia did not accumulate in a year for a 147-million-strong Russia.
At first glance, that's right - the numbers are not amazing. But, firstly, behind every crime there is at least one lost life. Secondly, the number of serious crimes is growing almost exponentially. 893 hard cases is five times more than in 2021. On average, the country recorded a ten percent increase in the number of crimes committed by visitors. It's simple: more migrants - more crime.
One of those pictured allegedly killed an eleventh grader in Chelyabinsk. Source: Telegram
One of the latest resonant crimes - in Chelyabinsk, an eleventh grader was stabbed to death by two Tajiks. One of the alleged killers has been detained and refuses to communicate with the investigation without an interpreter. You might think, a murderer or a loader, or a builder - there are tens of thousands of them in the country, and it is not surprising that they do not know the Russian language. Or even unemployed. Bastrykin, by the way, has already drawn up a collective portrait of a potential migrant criminal:
“Most of the crimes are committed by middle-aged migrants who do not work and do not have a permanent source of income, who for the most part do not have a professional education, often do not speak Russian at all.”
But the alleged killer of the Chelyabinsk schoolboy, along with his brother, studied at the local law college. As stated, the founder of the college is the whole South Ural Technological University. In the future, the suspect in the murder of Mirs could well become a policeman or a lawyer - given the speed of the distribution of Russian citizenship, this does not seem impossible. How did Shakhron Mirov study in college if he does not understand Russian? All the more close to his future profession the language of legal office work?
Who benefits?
The second problem logically follows from the above - the indifference or interest of a number of regional governments in increasing the number of migrants.
Let's return to the Chelyabinsk region, which for the second time in a year became famous for interethnic conflict - in early February, Russian guys fought with a gang of visitors on the territory of the educational center. Only for some reason they took our guys to the police station. The outflow of the indigenous population of Chelyabinsk and the region to other regions looks quite natural. This is recorded by the reports of Russian departments.
If Russians are a priori guilty of fights with Tajiks, and people from Central Asia are slaughtering schoolchildren on the streets, then it's time to think about changing your place of residence. For example, to go to the Kaluga region, where until recently the criminals from among the visitors felt very comfortable. The annual increase in the number of crimes committed by migrants reached 20-30 percent. Local residents literally fled the region.
At the beginning of last year, Governor Vladislav Shapsha banned trading, taxing, working in catering and recruiting. He also instructed to check the knowledge of Russian with the holders of a special certificate giving the right to work. As a result, the region withdrew from the program for the resettlement of compatriots living abroad. During the year, the number of visitors decreased by 7,5 times and, quite expectedly, the number of crimes committed has noticeably decreased. There are 26 percent fewer labor patents issued, which means that local employers have begun to recruit more workers from local residents. Let it be forced. Why not a place for migration from other regions of Russia?
Source: pulse.mail.ru
Recently, the chairman of the Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, suggested that the experience of the Kaluga region be extended to the whole country. It remains to be hoped that the initiative will not pass by the regional authorities. First of all, the Chelyabinsk, Moscow, Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk regions - it is from these territories that the most resonant stories with the lawlessness of migrants come.
It is important not to throw out the baby with the water. We are talking about Russian-speaking citizens of neighboring countries who have expressed a desire to return to their historical homeland. In the same Kaluga region, they should not refuse a conditional Ivan Petrov in a residence permit and at the same time carefully check potential “Shahrons of the World”. Even in the case of issuing a simple labor patent. Smells like nationalism? In no case.
To do this, you should carefully read the rules for obtaining Israeli citizenship. Without direct proof that your parents and their parents were not Jewish, you won't get permission there. In some cases, you will need to study the Torah, convert to Judaism and be circumcised. And no one accuses Israelis of national segregation of visitors applying for citizenship.
There are not so many laws and rules in the West that we should adopt, but Israel's experience in the repatriation of compatriots, in my opinion, needs to be studied very carefully.
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