Administration without Frontiers?
European Migration Law
Russia
Ekaterina Kiseleva
Associate Professor at the Department of Public International Law, Law Faculty,
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
After the collapse of the Soviet system of population registration, a new system, detailed and thought-out, is being introduced under the principal jurisdiction of the Federal Migration Service of Russia since the early years of the third millennium. The legal acts provide for rules and principles of processing, analysis, storage, protection and use of the information about quantitative and qualitative social, economic and other parameters of migratory processes of both Russian and foreign citizens and stateless persons. Russia cooperates with different States and organizations in the field of monitoring migration. Procedural certainty regarding entry into the territory of Russia is also in place. However, there are some inconsistencies in the rules of expulsion, where several notions, which are not very clearly differentiated from a legal point of view, are used, as well as, but to a lesser extent, in the rules on human smuggling and trafficking. A comprehensive State program on the integration of migrants does not exist at all currently, with the initiative in this respect having been passed to the subjects of the Federation. Thus, a system for monitoring migration in Russia is being developed quite dynamically and successfully. At the same time, legal instruments of national migration control continue to contain certain provisions not concerted with each other.
