Moscow needs only 200,000 foreign workers - mayor

Moscow acting Mayo Sergey Sobyanin said that the city needed only 200,000 foreign workers, Interfax reports.

The acting mayor noted that there was a deficit of about 2 million workplaces in the city. Over half of vacancies are occupied by residents of the Moscow Region. Many workers arrive from Russian regions.

Sobyanin added that the number of foreign workers in Moscow exceeded the need 2-3-fold.