“The influx of migrants is now growing, especially after the decline in anti-epidemic measures in a number of countries, and in 2021 it became a third more than in 2020.
Several million foreign citizens come to us every year,” TASS quoted him as saying.
According to him, we are talking most often about people from countries neighboring Russia.
“According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, today in Russia the number of the largest diasporas ranges from 1 to 5 million people,” he added.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the establishment of an interdepartmental commission of the Russian Security Council on improving the state migration policy.