Half a Million Foreigners Deported from Russia since 2013

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A new report has been published about deported foreigners from Russia.

Civic Assistance Committee published a research about migration issues in Russia. According to the research, 513,000 deportation cases were counted since the year of 2013.

The Moscow Times published the speech of Civic Assistance Committee spokesman Konstantin Troitsky, “Deportation has become mandatory in case of repeated violations of law, tax evasion or administrative fines,” he said. He also pointed to an increase in the number of raids by immigration authorities.

The newspaper also added information by citing the research that Russia’s courts rule to deport defendants in more than 70 percent of migration cases. In some courts, it takes judges three to five minutes on average to deliver a verdict of deportation.

Russia’s Federal Migration Service has banned more than 1.7 million foreign citizens from entering Russia since 2012.