There is no serious outflow of labor migrants from Russia. Vadim Kozhenov, president of the Federation of Migrants of Russia, said at a press conference in Moscow.
According to him, there is no outflow of migrants so far. He added that there are about 8-9 million labor migrants in Russia.
As Vadim Kozhenov noted, withdrawal of foreign companies did not affect the work of migrants. The number of migrants in Russia almost does not change for several years, only single cases of workers returning home are registered.
At least 13,392,897 people have been registered as migrants (foreigners and stateless persons were taken into account) in Russia at the end of 2021. At year-end 2020, there were 9,802,448 migrants. Growth for the year reached 36.63 percent.
Uzbekistan took the first place in terms of the number of registered citizens last tear — 4,961,301 facts of registration. Citizens of Tajikistan take the 2nd place — 3,076,781. Kyrgyzstan takes the 3rd place (1,063,928 facts of registration of labour migrants).
