State Duma Deputy Speaker Alexander Babakov stressed the importance of establishing a Commissioner for Compatriots in Russia...

Commenting on the World Conference of Russian Compatriots in Moscow, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Interaction with Compatriot Organizations Abroad and State Duma Deputy Speaker Alexander Babakov stressed the importance of establishing a Commissioner for Compatriots in Russia:
 
“According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than eighty thousand people moved to Russia in 2022–2023. Most compatriots settled in the regions of the Central, Ural, Siberian and Volga Federal Districts.
 
However, due to the changing social and political situation in the world, the number of people wishing to relocate to our country is growing every day, and not only among our Russian-speaking compatriots, but also among native Europeans.
 
We are seeing a steady increase in the number of requests to relocate to Russia from citizens of many European countries.
 
Our compatriots and native Europeans are driven to this by the tightening and imposition of the ideology of political correctness, the official increase in the number of genders, and the tightening of juvenile justice procedures. EU residents are simply afraid to raise children in such an environment!
 
Despite the fact that pro-American propaganda around the world portrays Russia as an aggressive bear in an ushanka with a balalaika, after looking into living conditions in our country, migrants see the true state of affairs: freedom of self-expression in any sphere and the protection of traditional values at the constitutional level.
 
The increase in the number of migrants requires modernizing the system for working with our compatriots.
 
The process of returning to the Motherland must be simple and clear for people. To this end, our working group, with the participation of experts, public organizations, and activists from the non-profit organization “Path Home,” developed proposals to establish an institution of the Commissioner for Compatriots in Russia.
 
The state resettlement program has been in operation for many years; the situation with migrants is changing, and it is clear that some adjustments to this program are also necessary.
As a result of monitoring conducted by our working group, we found that migrants primarily need informational and legal assistance, as well as help with customs procedures, registration and migration registration, employment and training, pension issues, and financial support when needed. This, too, could fall within the Commissioner’s remit.
 
We believe that establishing the institution of the Commissioner will help ensure independent oversight of the state's fulfillment of its constitutional obligations to recognize and observe the rights of compatriots and provide them with state protection.

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