Russia is the world's second-largest destination for immigrants, after the United States. The primary origins are other former Soviet republics, but there is also a great deal of influx of (undocumented) Chinese and Vietnamese in the Far East.
The illegal population of Moscow is supposedly about 1 million people.
--- On Tue, 9/22/09, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Regarding C DOSS' post "Russian demogrpahics":
>
> Where does the "Immigration compensat(ing) for the amount
> of population loss by 82.9%" come from?
> The "legal, full-time resident" immigrants referred to
> later in your post? I do know that recently the
> Russian Far East has received a major influx of Central
> Asian (generically referred to as "Uzbek," regardless
> of their nation/state of origin), corresponding to an
> apparent shift in Immigration Service policy under
> the late Putin Presidency. CIS immigrants are less likely
> to be regarded as a fifth column than the Chinese,
> not in the least because of their Russian language
> proficiency (or familiarity, if not proficiency).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft.
> http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>