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A new interview with Anatoly Bublik, head of the “Put Domoy” project, about the problem of labor migration in Russia has been published on the news portal KstatiNews .

Read right now about whose design the flow of cheap labor is following and what this threatens Russia with. Below is the full interview. The original article is on the KstatiNews website.

Labor migrants from Asia pay off loyal politicians and officials in Ivanovo Region.

KstatiNews closely follows the fight against illegal migration in the Ivanovo region. While foreigners from certain countries are barred from working in a number of sectors in many Russian regions, this has not yet happened in Ivanovo and the surrounding region.

Our previous interviewee, regional Duma deputy Dmitry Shelyakin, is convinced that the Ivanovo economy cannot exist without labor migrants. Another interviewee of ours, an expert on these issues, explained the trap some regions have fallen into and why many people in positions of power are mistaken.

What we are seeing in Ivanovo now is part of a huge iceberg. That is the view of Anatoly Bublik, head of the ANO “Center for Assistance to Voluntary Resettlement ‘Put Domoy.’” — Use of any materials is permitted only with a hyperlink to Kstati.news (https://kstati.news/)

In his opinion, Russia was unwittingly drawn into a very serious process aimed at its destruction. — Use of any materials is permitted only with a hyperlink to Kstati.news (https://kstati.news/)

The thing is, our enemies always play complex, multi-step games, which we often lose, the interviewee says. — We have problems with Ukraine, in the Caucasus, and we are fighting sanctions. But our enemies did not stop there: much earlier than we might think, they launched a program to transfer a poor, impoverished, needy population from Asia to Russia. — Use of any materials is permitted only with a hyperlink to Kstati.news (https://kstati.news/)

According to Bublik, “they spared no fabulous sums for various organizations that began lobbying the idea that life in Russia is good because there is cheap labor nearby, ready to work for next to nothing.”

Thus, the proposal was to replace Russia’s reasonably well-paid employees with cheap ones. And this “savings” was presented as benefiting the organizations that hire them. — Use of any materials is permitted only with a hyperlink to Kstati.news (https://kstati.news/)

But no one said that the money would be taken out of the country, or that roughly two-thirds, or even more, of all foreign labor migrants work in Russia without official registration. No one explained that shady operations would be funded, crime would grow, and drug trafficking would increase, the expert argues.
He explained that because mayors and governors responsible for the region’s well-being often understand nothing about economics, they accept the argument that cheap labor is unquestionably needed to improve the economy. In reality, they do not calculate the economic impact.

At the same time, they sincerely believe they are doing the right thing by attracting cheap labor, because, in their view, labor migrants from Asia mean money saved.

They do not consider that the money is saved for a private individual, not for the state or the region.

That is why city administrators and officials always maintain that more cheap labor is needed. And this will continue. We will not be able to stop it at the public level. It can only be stopped by a political decision at the very top, says Anatoly Bublik.
As a rule, corruption is also involved, because, according to our interviewee, each labor migrant pays between a third and half of their salary into the diaspora’s coffers.

Loyal politicians and loyal officials are then paid from this fund.

This system cannot be changed at the level of an ordinary person. It can only be changed, I repeat, through large-scale political will, Bublik believes. — Use of any materials is permitted only with a hyperlink to Kstati.news (https://kstati.news/)

The original article from Kstati.news (https://kstati.news/)

Publication date: August 11, 2024

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