EaEU states are not a migration threat to each other

WCIOM, a Russian state-financed polling company, has conducted social polls, asking people’s opinion about preferred partners for Russia. Most people favour Belarus (66%), then Kazakhstan (45%), Azerbaijan (10%), Armenia (9%), Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Moldova (5% each), Turkmenistan (4%), Uzbekistan (3%), Tajikistan and Ukraine (2% each). The public also believes that Russia has the best relations with Belarus (65%), then with Kazakhstan (46%), Armenia (7%), Azerbaijan (6%), Kyrgyzstan (3%), Moldova (3%), Uzbekistan (3%), Turkmenistan and Ukraine (3% each), Tajikistan (2%).

Stanislav Naumov, the executive director of the Eurasian Center of Integration Research and Communications, says that competition is growing with intensification of the turnover of goods: “Everyone can feel the expanding range of products, improvement of quality. This is in a situation associated with sanctions, possibly one of the most serious drivers of growth.”

A common labour market is being formed. The expert assumes that the agreement will make the market of highly-skilled labour more mobile.

“If a person wants to move, and social payments, credit records and other aspects associated with personal data today need to move with him. It is important here that people feel comfort for members of their families, not only themselves,” says Naumov.

Saadat Asanseitova, deputy director of the Integration Development Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission, said: “There are not that many emigrants from countries of the Eurasian Economic Union in Russia. Very few migrants come from Belarus and Kazakhstan, compared with the number of migrants from Central Asia – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan… EaEU states are not a migration threat to each other in terms of labour migration, but at the same time there is a legal basis for cooperation to prevent illegal labour migration. It is one of the conditions for the creation of an effective labour market. The legal basis stipulates exchange of information about labour migration, cooperation of authorized organs, that is. The problem may become topical with further expansion of the EaEU.”

About actualization of the Union’s expansionWCIOM, a Russian state-financed polling company, has conducted social polls, asking people’s opinion about preferred partners for Russia. Most people favour Belarus (66%), then Kazakhstan (45%), Azerbaijan (10%), Armenia (9%), Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Moldova (5% each), Turkmenistan (4%), Uzbekistan (3%), Tajikistan and Ukraine (2% each). The public also believes that Russia has the best relations with Belarus (65%), then with Kazakhstan (46%), Armenia (7%), Azerbaijan (6%), Kyrgyzstan (3%), Moldova (3%), Uzbekistan (3%), Turkmenistan and Ukraine (3% each), Tajikistan (2%).Stanislav Naumov, the executive director of the Eurasian Center of Integration Research and Communications, says that competition is growing with intensification of the turnover of goods: “Everyone can feel the expanding range of products, improvement of quality. This is in a situation associated with sanctions, possibly one of the most serious drivers of growth.”A common labour market is being formed. The expert assumes that the agreement will make the market of highly-skilled labour more mobile.“If a person wants to move, and social payments, credit records and other aspects associated with personal data today need to move with him. It is important here that people feel comfort for members of their families, not only themselves,” says Naumov.Saadat Asanseitova, deputy director of the Integration Development Department of the Eurasian Economic Commission, said: “There are not that many emigrants from countries of the Eurasian Economic Union in Russia. Very few migrants come from Belarus and Kazakhstan, compared with the number of migrants from Central Asia – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan… EaEU states are not a migration threat to each other in terms of labour migration, but at the same time there is a legal basis for cooperation to prevent illegal labour migration. It is one of the conditions for the creation of an effective labour market. The legal basis stipulates exchange of information about labour migration, cooperation of authorized organs, that is. The problem may become topical with further expansion of the Ea