The Federal Migration Service of Russia intends to increase the number of people who will be denied entry to the Russian Federation up to 400 thousand people, the head of the Federal Migration Services, Konstantin Romodanovsky said today.
"Since the beginning of this year the number of foreign nationals coming to Russia has increased by 10%, while only 275 thousand foreigners are denied entry to our country. We plan to increase this number up to 400 million," Interfax quotes Romodanovsky.
In the past nine years, 1.5 million foreign nationals have entered Russia.