The labor force of the CIS countries was million in , suggesting that migrants were equivalent to six to eight percent of the labor force. On July 25, , Russia enacted a new law to legalize foreign workers or remove them. Instead, many work long hours for low pay, which puts more jobs into migrant hands in a "race to the bottom. Thus, migrants from Armenia, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Georgia, Ukraine, and the Central Asian countries enter Russia legally, but are subject to police harassment because they do not have work or residence documents. More Blog Entries.
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