Already More than 30 thousand Inhabitants of Ukraine asked for refugee status in Russia, said on the first day of the week the head of the Federal migration service of Russia Konstantin Romodanovsky.

" More than 30, 4 thousand people applied for refugee status or temporary asylum in Russia, " Romodanovsky said at a meeting with representatives of the UNHCR in the Russian capital.

Since the beginning of the conflict in the Ukraine in the FMS of the Russian Federation asked about 130 thousand Ukrainians " with hope for long stay ".

" It is not those who ask permission to work, and those who have concluded that wants a long time to stay in Russia and they doubtful prospects for return, " Romodanovsky said. In the future, According to the head of FMS, some of these people may also apply for asylum in the Russian Federation.

As stated, the present number of people fleeing military operations in the Russian Federation, much more: just most do not seek official refugee status, fear of persecution upon return home.

Under the supervision of Deputy head EMERCOM of Russia Vladimir Stepanov, more and more immigrants from the South-East of Ukraine shall decide to remain in Russia permanently.



numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, How is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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