After the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall, Russia’s immigration policy needs to be adjusted.
Photo: Ivan MAKEEV
After the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall, Russia’s immigration policy needs to be adjusted. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, drew attention to this.
“The suspects reported by the media are immigrants,” Sergei Aksenov wrote on his Telegram channel. – And this squarely raises the question of the problems of immigration policy. The problem is long overdue and pending. Information about crimes committed by immigrants appears in the media almost daily. We understand that it is said that criminals have no nationality or religion. But it is impossible to deny the fact that the murky migratory flow largely contributes to the creation within Russia of closed communities formed along ethnic lines, often infected with Russophobia. They become a breeding ground for extremist and terrorist ideologies, in which foreign intelligence services can find executors to implement their criminal plans. I repeat: the problem is very late and too mature, it must be solved. Taking into account the realities of war. “It’s a matter of national security.”
Crimean head Sergei Aksenov.
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Sergei Aksenov specifically clarified: we are in no way talking about discrimination on the basis of nationality.
“Quite the opposite,” he wrote. – We start from the fact that everyone is equal before the law. We respect the traditions and culture of all peoples; In Russia it cannot be otherwise. But this is a two-way street. And we rightly expect from those who come to us the same attitude towards our people, our laws and values, towards what is dear and sacred to us. Where all this exists, there is no place for hate.
