Around 1, 37 million foreign Residents are currently in the capital, more than 70% of the foreigners arrived in the Russian capital to work, said the Deputy chief of Department on migration of the Moscow GU Ministry of internal Affairs Dmitry Sergienko.
"in the capital of Russia is About 1, 37 million foreign Residents," He said, noting that 85% of them - natives of republics of the former Soviet Union, reports news Agency. He noted that today in the office for migration to patent the workplace appealed 343 thousand Foreigners, the vast majority of whom are citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine.

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