The fighting carried out on the territory of Donbass forced a large number of civilians to leave their homes and move to a new place. Many of them chose to live in Russia. Until recently, those migrants who came from Ukraine did not have any advantages in our country, but in 2014 a law came into force that simplified the process of obtaining Russian citizenship for foreigners. We are talking about a program to support compatriots in their desire to move to Russia. In the article we will look at what the program of resettlement of compatriots for residents of Donbass is in 2021.
How to become a participant in the resettlement program
Persons who found themselves outside the Russian Federation after the collapse of the USSR are entitled to become participants in the Program to assist compatriots living abroad in relocating to the Russian Federation. Those residents of Donbass who know Russian can move to the Russian Federation and restore their citizenship. Participants in the resettlement program must meet certain requirements, they must be:
- Capable;
- able-bodied;
- Have an education;
- Have experience working in Russia;
- Meet the requirements for obtaining a temporary residence permit.
Step-by-step instructions for the relocation procedure
To obtain official status as a migrant from Ukraine or another country to Russia, follow a simple algorithm of actions:
- Choosing a specific place to move.
- Writing an application for participation in the program and submitting it to the nearest FMS office or Russian consulate (for citizens located outside the Russian Federation).
- Moving.
- Obtaining documents allowing you to stay in the country.
- Obtaining a Russian passport (3-9 months pass from the moment of moving).
Resettlement program for compatriots for residents of Donbass in 2021
Important! Participants in the resettlement program are provided with certain social guarantees, as well as financial payments. For example, participants are paid so-called “lifting allowances”, the amount of which will depend on the region that the participants have chosen for relocation.
The allowances are paid not only to the participant himself, but also to his family members. The largest payments are provided in those regions where the population density is lowest. These are Eastern Siberia and the Far East. A program participant who has chosen these regions is entitled to a payment of 240,000 rubles, and his family members - 120,000 rubles each. They receive half of this amount immediately after arrival, and the rest after a year and a half. In other regions, payments will be much less. For example, in the Kaliningrad region the payment will be 20,000 rubles to a participant and 10,000 members of his family.
In addition, participants are compensated for the expenses they incur when moving. We are talking about compensation for the cost of travel to your place of residence, including plane or train tickets. Payment for baggage transportation and expenses for transporting personal belongings is also subject to compensation, based on one five-ton container for a family of three people. In addition, participants are compensated for the state fee for registering a residence permit and renting housing before obtaining citizenship, but not more than 6 months. IDPs from Donbass have the right to apply for pensions and various social benefits in the Russian Federation.
In other words, those resettled under the program have a lot of advantages compared to those who decided to do it on their own. The only drawback is the choice of region for settlement. The participant can choose it independently, but only from those contained in the list.
How refugees from Donbass made their way to Russia and what they experienced at home
Impressive queues of people wishing to get into Russia lined up at the border
The other day I spoke with a Ukrainian woman who has been living in Volgograd for a long time. And this is what she, let's call her Olga, said about the refugees arriving in the city.
— Relatives from the suburbs of Donetsk, eight people, came to my friend’s two-room apartment. At first they cried on the phone: “At least take the children, we have nothing to eat here.” Well, she, of course, said: “Then that’s it, come.” They arrived.
They talk about their experiences reluctantly, sparingly, and it feels like people are in shock. This is a family with grandparents. So, my grandfather couldn’t eat for five days, he was just pounding.
They got out from Donbass, splitting into two groups of four people. Mom, dad and two children arrived in Volgograd by train. To avoid being stopped at customs, they wore shorts and flip-flops, especially to pretend they were going on a summer vacation. All property was left behind. When asked, they answered that they were going to visit for three weeks. They already knew that they were only allowed in for visitors, and if they saw that they were refugees, they didn’t.
Eventually they were allowed to board the train. But another family, who took their belongings in large bags, and it was clear from them that they were leaving forever, disappeared somewhere. They were simply dropped off the train into a field, and, as it turned out later, they did not return home to Donetsk. Nobody knows where they went.
People came to Volgograd without money - they didn’t pay salaries, but they ate their savings, without work records - so as not to look like refugees, only with Ukrainian passports.
The second part of the family, four people, made their way to Volgograd by car along partisan paths. They brought the old people and decided to return to Donetsk, they wanted to “sit out” the war there and preserve their property. These people are 40-50 years old. Everyone tried to persuade them not to go, but they went anyway. But near Donetsk they came under artillery fire, spent three days on the ground, and could not even get close to the city. We returned to Russia along the same paths.
- How do they live now? Who helps them?
“Their situation in Russia is extremely uncertain, while they have been granted a 90-day stay... And the same is true for other refugees. Everyone in the city is waiting for the end of this period to understand what to do in the end.
They live off the charity of the population. My friend who sheltered them is an art teacher, and, of course, it would have been impossible for her to feed eight people, she says, her savings immediately went to one meal. But the students came to the rescue: they brought food, bedding, clothes, medicine, and money for the refugees. There are even surpluses; my friend gives them to other arrivals from Donbass.
- Do people feel sorry for them? Are they compassionate?
- Yes. Those who are staying with relatives are getting help. And there are also women and children who were settled in sanatoriums, and, they say, they are well fed and cared for there. Moreover, it is not a fact that those who arrived are Russians. But no one asks them about it.
OLIGARCH MERCENARIES ENTER HOUSES, ROBE, RAPE, KILL
— You said that the arriving family was in shock. Did they tell you why?
— There are two powers that exist at the same time. The authorities of the Donetsk Republic and the mercenaries of the oligarchs. The latter enter houses, open doors with their feet, beat, rape, and kill. The neighbors of the family I am talking about were shot. In many areas there is no electricity or water, people are almost ready to drink from puddles. It is completely incomprehensible why Ukrainian TV has not yet been switched off. Poroshenko's propaganda continues to flow.
Our television does not yet know about all the horrors. The arrivals say that they showed on TV a bus with refugees that was fired at at the border; women and children were traveling there, but they did not say that two buses following them were blown up by shots from grenade launchers.
Refugees say that this is genocide, that they kill without distinguishing who is Russian and who is Ukrainian. They are simply clearing the territory of disloyal people.
The children are scared. The boy from the visiting family is two years old. So from time to time he remembers: “Where is the fluff?” For several days they explained to him that there would be no more “pooh-pooh.”
Hospitals in Donetsk operate entirely on humanitarian aid. No other medications are being supplied. Insulin is already being distributed free of charge to everyone who asks, because it is clear that no one has money, and they will simply die if they do not give it. And another incident was told.
Everyone is being treated in hospitals - both militiamen and National Guard soldiers. Eight of these wounded guardsmen were being treated, and suddenly an ultimatum came - “either you let them go, or we’ll blow up the hospital.” We were surprised: who is holding them? They took them out of the gate, thinking they would be sent to Kyiv for recovery, but they walked about two hundred meters and were shot.
The refugees who told the story probably thought it was because they saw a good attitude towards them and could tell their colleagues...
There are no medicines in Donetsk pharmacies. The stores still have something from some stocks, and some people have grown something in their gardens - they sell it, and those who still have money left - buy it.
Refugees do not believe in a truce. They believe that even if the militias and the Ukrainian army lay down their arms, there are still mercenaries of the oligarchs - scumbags who obey no one except their masters. These are people who know how and want to shoot.
RELATIVES FROM Kyiv SCREAMED ON THE PHONE: “DAMN YOU!”
“The refugees themselves, watching the lies on Ukrainian channels, called Kyiv and other cities, tried to tell the truth, but their relatives shouted back: “Damn you, you bastards!” We don’t want to listen to you!” They are sure that it is Russia that is shelling Donetsk, and the city residents support it. As Pelevin said, “if your desire to see would be as strong as the desire not to see”... I’m talking about the people of Kyivians. And I’ll give one more quote, from Trotsky, about what awaits the people of Kiev and Western Ukraine: “If you are not interested in war, then it will be interested in you.” Having dealt with Donbass, the killers will return to their native lands and terrorize those who live there...
My interlocutor is not just a Ukrainian. She comes from Western Ukraine and has a real conflict at home. The father is against Russia, she herself supports the Russian position. Therefore, father and daughter have been trying not to talk about politics lately. The man is even planning to leave for Ukraine. That is why Olga does not want her real name to be revealed - for the sake of her father’s safety.
She is a specialist in the exact sciences and in everything she wants to get to the very essence. Therefore, Olga not only analyzes what refugees say, but also reads many articles on the Internet, in newspapers, as well as books on the history of Russian-Ukrainian relations. Although she is not a political scientist, her reasoning seemed interesting.
— Russians from Donbass fled to Russia. Where will Western Ukrainians run? After all, look: the guys from Western Ukraine, who sat in the villages and twisted the tails of cows, were called to Kyiv and said: “Victory will be yours.” They came to the Maidan and really won. It's intoxicating! That's why they don't want to separate. Then they were told: okay, here are the grenade launchers, go to the southeast, and victory will be yours again.
And God forbid the victory will be theirs...
These people will never return to cows. They understand the taste of power, they know that if someone contradicts them, then they need to look at him through an optical sight... And they will have to return home. And where will they put their skills? Will they go to regular daily work? Will they obey a boss who is not a “hero of the revolution”? No. They will come to the residents of their native land and demand “money for the Maidan.” And they will either have to be finished off, or they will act everywhere as they did in Donetsk.
I was friends with the famous psychiatrist Ksenia Borisovna Magnitskaya for 20 years. She told me a lot about aggression. So, aggression, if awakened, will not simply disappear. And Western Ukrainians will have nowhere to run from this army of blood-drunk men who consider themselves heroes to whom glory belongs. To Europe, where everyone goes to work? There they are third grade.
Ukraine will face the same thing as the Baltic states, where the entire working-age population works as laborers in Europe, and old people rent out their homes to survive, and are even happy to have Russian guests - at least some money.
“MY HOMELAND DECIDED THAT A LITTLE BIT OF FASCISM WOULDN’T HURT«
“My homeland was embarrassed by the national idea and it decided: a little fascism wouldn’t hurt.” While Ukrainian nationalism simply covers up the economic interests of the United States.
I read a lot of materials about shale gas and the puzzle, which at first did not fit, did. They mine it in the USA and want to supply it to Europe. It's difficult and expensive. This means we need to mine in Europe. But this is harmful to the environment. France, Germany, and even trouble-free Poland refused. Guess who's left? Here is the background of the Maidan, and the reason why the children of senior US officials joined Naftogaz... But Donetsk and Lugansk did not agree with the US plan, this is the result. After all, this region is needed; gas is produced where there are coal mines. Therefore, there is not a war with the Russians, but simply genocide - the clearing of territory for the extraction of shale gas and the enrichment of the American elite. They don’t care who is Ukrainian or Russian. They don't need people there at all.
UNDER THE USSR, UKRAINIANS WORKED SUCCESSFULLY IN THE NORTH
We return to the conversation about refugees.
—Are they offended that Russia did not send troops?
- No. I've never heard of it. On the contrary, they cry, grateful that they were accepted. We are touched by the way they are treated here.
— And the local population, Volgograd residents, will not be annoyed later that Ukrainian refugees have taken away jobs, what do you think?
- Hard to say. While everyone feels sorry for them. But to prevent this from happening, refugees must be distributed evenly. Not to Moscow, but, for example, to the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. People are very needed there, and a lot of Ukrainians worked there in Soviet times. They were qualified drilling rig engineers, and when the Union collapsed, they left for Ukraine. The replacement was very difficult. I think the same miners would be well received in this region. I lived there myself, quite normally.
IDP status
Important! You need to obtain migrant status at the Main Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in accordance with your place of residence. It can be applied for by those persons who were forced to leave their place of residence due to a threat to their lives, as well as to members of their family.
After the status of a forced migrant is issued, the person will receive the right to receive assistance from the state, for example:
- Get a job without permission or a patent;
- Exemption from duties on imported items; immigrants from Russia can import one passenger car duty-free;
- Receive education under the same conditions for Russian citizens, including budget-funded education at universities;
- Receive free medical care;
- In case of lack of income, receive benefits;
- Accommodation in the center of a temporary settlement.
Advantages of obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of the DPR and LPR
By acquiring Russian citizenship, residents of Donbass receive the following benefits:
- employment in any Russian companies;
- receiving social benefits and government benefits;
- participation in elections;
- the opportunity to use free medical services;
- the right to receive free education;
- free exit from Russia and return;
- obtaining a passport from a country recognized by all countries of the world.
Russian citizenship opens up broad prospects for migrants
It is possible to obtain status in several ways: by birthright, by participating in a special program, by marrying a citizen of the Russian Federation, by moving to Russia to reunite with family, or after passing the standard naturalization procedure.
Training and employment under the resettlement program
Important! The main goal of the resettlement program is the influx of working-age population into our country. Therefore, one of the main conditions of the Program will be the opportunity to work.
For people who moved from Ukraine there is a job fair, which is presented at the city employment center. It should also be remembered that displaced persons participating in the program are provided with assistance in finding employment and adapting to the workplace.
To find work, migrants from Donbass are recommended to register with the employment center. As a rule, the center offers men work in a blue-collar profession, for example, as a welder, installer or driver. And for women, work in the food sector, preschool institutions, etc.
Young participants in the program are granted the right to study at universities of the Russian Federation, and they can enroll in them on the same basis as citizens of the Russian Federation.
