The HRC offers to provide refugees from Ukraine little more benefits

The presidential Council on human rights (HRC) offer to provide the refugees from the Ukraine, located on the square, the Russian Federation, a little more mandatory benefits than is currently the case: extend the period of legal stay, distribute all social rights and those who have not received refugee status or temporary asylum.

" We offer legislatively extend the period of legal residence of Ukrainians on the territory of the Russian Federation for a certain period of time - whether it be 9 months or a year ", - said the head of the Council of the human rights Council on migration policy Evgeny Bobrov at a special Council meeting on Thursday. The opposition said that citizens do not have the ability to quickly obtain refugee status or temporary asylum in Russia.

" We propose to amend the legislation On refugees and distribute all social rights on persons who apply for the capture of refugee status or temporary asylum, " said beavers. Similarly in the HRC serves to simplify the procedure of obtaining citizenship for immigrants to the Ukrainians, who have refugee status or temporary asylum could immediately apply for citizenship, as if he had a residence permit.

The flow of immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine in the Russian Federation has increased greatly since June amid ongoing fighting between supporters of independence Donetsk and Kyiv national security. According to the summary data of the Russian authorities, since the beginning of the conflict was forced to leave the territory of Ukraine and are in Russia more than 730 thousand Inhabitants.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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